package sun-java6-bin 6-00-2ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

It seems that this is the relevant failure data:

Setting up sun-java6-bin (6-00-2ubuntu3) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sun-java6-jre:
 sun-java6-jre depends on sun-java6-bin (= 6-00-2ubuntu3) | ia32-sun-java6-bin (= 6-00-2ubuntu3); however:
  Package sun-java6-bin is not configured yet.
  Package ia32-sun-java6-bin is not installed.
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-jre (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up sun-java5-bin (1.5.0-11-1ubuntu3) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java5-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sun-java6-bin
 sun-java6-jre
 sun-java5-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up sun-java5-bin (1.5.0-11-1ubuntu3) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java5-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up sun-java6-jre (6-00-2ubuntu3) ...

Setting up sun-java6-bin (6-00-2ubuntu3) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sun-java5-bin
 sun-java6-bin

did you see the license question asked? if not, please use an interactive install or preseed the acceptance of the license.

No license question asked.

$ sudo apt-get -f install

does not ask one either:

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  ...
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 53 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up sun-java5-bin (1.5.0-11-1ubuntu3) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java5-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up sun-java6-bin (6-00-2ubuntu3) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sun-java5-bin
 sun-java6-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

That's it.

I'm having the same exact problem. Has a resolution been found? I've tried running:

sudo dpkg --configure sun-java6-bin

But it fails with:

Setting up sun-java6-bin (6-02-1ubuntu1) ...
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-bin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sun-java6-bin

I am, of course, running Gutsy. Any insight is appreciated, as I cannot get the firefox plugin to run, and it's driving me crazy :-)

On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 11:52 +0000, Mark Sisley wrote:
> I'm having the same exact problem. Has a resolution been found? I've
> tried running:
>
> sudo dpkg --configure sun-java6-bin
>
> But it fails with:
>
> Setting up sun-java6-bin (6-02-1ubuntu1) ...
> Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> dpkg: error processing sun-java6-bin (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> sun-java6-bin
>
> I am, of course, running Gutsy. Any insight is appreciated, as I cannot
> get the firefox plugin to run, and it's driving me crazy :-)

I gave up any hope that any further action would be taken to debug this
issue and simply removed the package(s).

b.

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My other computer is your Microsoft Windows server.

Brian J. Murrell

unable to reproduce; what exactly in the postinst does fail?

Hi !

Matthias Klose wrote / schrieb:

> unable to reproduce; what exactly in the postinst does fail?

Well, this was approx. 2 weeks ago ...

IIRC this all was connected to an attempt to install Eclipse which in
turn depends on Java6.

My maschine is an old AMD Athlon 1200MHz with 512MB of RAM. Probably my
selection was that huge that the installation run out of memory (just an
idea) ...

What I did that time was simply to allow the installation process to
sent out a bug report. I did not known that you will need more information.

Please let me know which information you will need. I will try to
replicate that fault with the beta release.

> ** Changed in: sun-java6 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

HTH
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Never give up !

Best regards / Gruß, Reinhard.

John F. Kennedy: "Don't ask what your country can do for you - ask what
you can do for your country!"

I seem to get the same error. I installed sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-bin the other day, and then decided to remove it, but I only got the error mentioned above. Today there was an update, which couldn't be installed, so I tried to remove it again, an then re-installed with the update.

When I run sudo dpkg --remove sun-java6-bin I get a dependency-error (-jre depends on ia32-sun-java6-bin | sun-java6-bin) so I tried sudo dpkg --remove sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre and got the following:

(Reading database ... 126157 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sun-java6-bin ...
update-binfmts: /var/lib/binfmts/jexec corrupt: out of binfmt data reading
package
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-bin (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
No theme index file in '/usr/share/icons/sun-java6.png'.
If you really want to create an icon cache here, use --ignore-theme-index.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of sun-java6-jre:
 sun-java6-bin depends on sun-java6-jre (= 6-03-0ubuntu1).
dpkg: error processing sun-java6-jre (--remove):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sun-java6-bin
 sun-java6-jre

Please tell me if there's anything more needed to complete the bugreport, or if you need/want some additional info!

I "solved" the problem by copying the file /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/lib/jexec to /var/lib/binfmts/jexec and after that I ran sudo dpkg --purge remove sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre

Not to nice, it complained a lot and then it worked. Probably not recommended.

This failure also can be caused by misleading license agreement (DJL). In my case, while installing sun-java6-jre, I've been gracefully asked to accept the license agreement. I've pressed "next" without scrolling through the agreement (not really interested in, as I've a home use installation) - and received bunch of error messages, that drove me here.

To get things running, one needs to scroll down through license agreement and tick the box "I Agree".

Hope that helps some guys that get here by the same cause :)

I have a similar problem here - when trying to remove the the package. I don't see any connection to the license agreement.

The Lisence-agreement window is to scroll down, then you reach the point where you can agree or not. Now it is working on my system.
Klaus.

Eli <email address hidden> wrote: I have a similar problem here - when trying to remove the the package.
I don't see any connection to the license agreement.

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i have the similar problem.
after i have installed ubuntu7.10,i run "sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre "
when all required has been download, the program automatically install sun-java6-jre and
i got a license,and i made a mistake to close the program
then i run " sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre" again,this time i accept the license
but got the following error:

No theme index file in '/usr/share/icons/sun-java6.png'.

If you really want to create an icon cache here, use --ignore-theme-index.

Got he problem with java-bin install, i've replyied to license well.
All was broken, can't uninstall etc...
Solved the problem installing java-jre that reinstalled java-bin ... ?_?

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 303609.