Comment 14 for bug 303609

Weird, as I hadn't opened any terminal window. I used the Synaptic update manager to update Sun Java, which failed with this error. Eventually, I managed finish the update simply by retrying it several times...

> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:09:02 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 303609] Re: package sun-java6-jre None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-jre.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> I have faced the same problem and Ubuntu asked me to send a report,
> which I did. The cause of the problem was that despite hitting enter
> several times in the terminal window, when the license was displayed,
> nothing happened. It simply hung in there. It was after many retries
> that I hit Ctrl+C. This is when I got the exact same error as mentioned
> above.
>
> --
> package sun-java6-jre None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-jre.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303609
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> Status in “sun-java6” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> I was installing sun java 6 runtime via add/remove programs, and here's the result. i got broken package at sun-java6-jre.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: i386
> Dependencies:
>
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl fglrx
> Package: sun-java6-jre None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-jre.list]
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: sun-java6
> Title: package sun-java6-jre None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-jre.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-10-generic i686

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