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[Lorens Kockum <470175@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have got exactly the same error. I am upgrading a stock fit2pc from
ubuntu 8.04 LTS directly to Lucid Lynx.

root@ubuntu-fitpc2:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Setting up lirc (0.8.6-0ubuntu4.1) ...
reload: Unknown instance: 
invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing lirc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lirc-x:
 lirc-x depends on lirc (= 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.1); however:
  Package lirc is not configured yet.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          dpkg: error processing lirc-x (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lirc
 lirc-x
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@ubuntu-fitpc2:~# 


My first instinct is to remove lirc, but the upgrade is not urgent, so if somebody wishes to look closer at this I'd be happy to help.

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Title:
  package lirc (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Status in “lirc” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lirc

i upgraded my system from 9.04 to 9.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 16:14:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: lirc (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: lirc
Title: package lirc (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64