I still see this bug in monkeysphere 0.37-2 on sid (fresh stable install, upgrade through testing to unstable).
Aptitude installation: Setting up monkeysphere (0.37-2) ... adding monkeysphere user... ms: setting up Monkeysphere authentication trust core... Failed running transition script /usr/share/monkeysphere/transitions/0.23 dpkg: error processing package monkeysphere (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 141 [... other packages ...] Errors were encountered while processing: monkeysphere E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: Setting up monkeysphere (0.37-2) ... ms: setting up Monkeysphere authentication trust core... /usr/share/monkeysphere/ma/setup: line 73: printf: write error: Broken pipe Failed running transition script /usr/share/monkeysphere/transitions/0.23 dpkg: error processing package monkeysphere (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: monkeysphere Running the transition script manually doesn't produce any output that tells me what is wrong, but the return value is the same: # /usr/share/monkeysphere/transitions/0.23; echo $? ms: setting up Monkeysphere authentication trust core... 141 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org