Public bug reported:

Usually I'm a command line user, but today I decided to give the
software center in my newly installed ubuntu a chance. Selected
wireshark from the list and started installation. The progress tab
showed a nice progress bar next to it, which completed to about 85% or
so, and then remained there for a couple of minutes. It looked to me as
though the process was hung for some reason, but as I couldn't get the
output from the installation, I couldn't make a decision as to what was
going on. Several minutes later, with the progress bar still stuck at
the same point, I lost patience. Pstree told me that aptd was running
dpkg was running frontend. Frontend sounds a lot like something designed
for user interaction, although I'm not sure. I killed frontend. The
install continued a bit, then hung again. This time I found and killed
another instance of frontend with little waiting.
After killing that second frontend process, software-center informed me
that the install had failed, and finally presented the output as
details. It did so in a text box which was about two rows high, inside a
dialog box which I could not resize. The only reasonable way to actually
read the text was copy it to some other application. The German umlauts
got lost somewhere along the way. Here is thetail end of the log:

Unpacking wireshark-common (from .../wireshark-common_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package wireshark.
Unpacking wireshark (from .../wireshark_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script was killed by signal (Terminated)
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 man-db
Error in function: 
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
man-db (2.6.0.2-2) wird eingerichtet ...
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von man-db (--configure):
 Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript wurde durch Signal 
(Beendet) gettet
libwsutil1 (1.6.2-1) wird eingerichtet ...
libsmi2ldbl (0.4.8+dfsg2-4) wird eingerichtet ...
libwiretap1 (1.6.2-1) wird eingerichtet ...
libwireshark-data (1.6.2-1) wird eingerichtet ...
libc-ares2 (1.7.4-1) wird eingerichtet ...
libwireshark1 (1.6.2-1) wird eingerichtet ...
wireshark-common (1.6.2-1) wird eingerichtet ...
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von wireshark-common (--configure):
 Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript wurde durch Signal 
(Beendet) gettet
dpkg: Abhngigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von wireshark:
 wireshark hngt ab von wireshark-common (= 1.6.2-1); aber:
  Paket wireshark-common ist noch nicht konfiguriert.
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von wireshark (--configure):
 Abhngigkeitsprobleme - verbleibt unkonfiguriert
Trigger fr libc-bin werden verarbeitet ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 man-db
 wireshark-common
 wireshark

The "gettet" should probably mean "getötet" i.e. "killed". "Beendet"
means "terminated" and is probably the translation of SIGTERM. Hope this
is of some use.

After the failed install via software center, I installed the package
via command line without any incident. So I'd say it's not a bug in the
wireshark package but in the way software-center interacts with it.
Might be wrong there, though.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar  9 11:38:12 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity

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