"console-setup" doesn't finish

[tonihele]

I've had this problem for almost a month now, I figured that it was due a bad package and would go away when it updates again, but no chance so far. And there was at least one update on it. Here is what for example apt-get dist-upgrade says:

Setting up console-setup (1.13ubuntu12) ...
dpkg: error processing console-setup (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20

Now it has a friend "ubuntu-minimal", but it doesn't update propably because the console-setup doesn't either which is required by the other.

[penguin.ch]

Re: "console-setup" doesn't finish

I'd try to re-install the package by

apt-get --reinstall install console-setup

or even

 apt-get --purge remove console-setup && apt-get install console-setup

[tonihele]

Re: "console-setup" doesn't finish

Thanks, removing it first and then again installing it worked. I was just afraid to do it when I first discovered the problem since it removes the meta-package "ubuntu-minimal" if it could cause a landslide to remove everything! But it it didn't, thanks!