Bug#810655: libembperl-perl: post-installation script returned error

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 02:32:36AM +0100, Rosario Maddox wrote:
> Package: libembperl-perl
> Version: 2.5.0-4
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Tried to install it:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> libembperl-perl is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
> Setting up libembperl-perl (2.5.0-4) ...
> dpkg: error processing package libembperl-perl (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libembperl-perl
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> This should not happen.

Could you try editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/libembperl-perl.postinst to
add ' -x' to the first shebang line, and then rerun this configuration
(dpkg --configure -a)? This should give a bit more information about
where it's failing.

Thanks,
Dominic.