Public bug reported: As part of this morning's dist-upgrade, flashplugin-nonfree was upgraded, but this failed:
Preparing to replace flashplugin-nonfree 7.0.63.3ubuntu3 (using .../flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ... Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ... Downloading... done. usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN] update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] . -n: not really -f: force dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: flashplugin-nonfree E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The failing section of the postinst is ================================ # Automatically added by dh_installinit if [ -x "/etc/init.d/flashplugin-nonfree" ]; then update-rc.d flashplugin-nonfree multiuser >/dev/null if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then invoke-rc.d flashplugin-nonfree start || exit $? else /etc/init.d/flashplugin-nonfree start || exit $? fi fi # End automatically added section ================================ ** Affects: flash-player (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- dpkg failure when upgrading to 7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1 https://launchpad.net/bugs/61378 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs