The bug appeared while upgrading from Ubuntu 16 to Ubuntu 18. It is a very 
serious bug, since many other packages depend on ca-certificates and were left 
unconfigured. Lots of error messages in the screen.
When the upgrade finished, the system was left in a very bad situation with so 
many non-configured packages. No workable reboot-shutdown button, not 
functioning menus ... If moving to a virtual terminal (Alt-F1) the virtual 
console did not work either, so the configuration error of ca-certificates is a 
really serious bug.
I did not dare to perform a hard poweroff and poweron because I was not 
confident that the system was going to be able to boot at all.
Fortunately enough, right clicking in the screen worked and I was able to open 
a terminal. From that terminal, I keyed firefox (not accesible through 
non-working menus) and downloaded from ubuntu archive the version 20170717 of 
ca-certificates and install it replacing the buggy 20180409 using dpkg -i.
After this, I performed
dpkg --configure -a
and all not-fully installed packages got correctly configured.
I had to poweroff via the button (no other choice) and when powering on again, 
Ubuntu 18 appeared with no other issue so far.

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Title:
  package ca-certificates 20180409 failed to install/upgrade: installed
  ca-certificates package post-installation script subprocess returned
  error exit status 1

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