A retest with the actual stable version Ubuntu 12.04 Precise has shown
that this bug is fixed there.
I close this ticket as fixed released.
Please upgrade your systems to the latest stable release, because Ubuntu
9.x has already reached End Of Live:
Robert,
Looking at the corresponding script
(/var/lib/dpkg/info/rocksndiamonds.preinst), I think you might have
gotten this message because some part of the hierarchies
/usr/share/games/rocksndiamonds/{graphics,levels,music,sounds} could not
be deleted. This might happen if a process had one of
** Summary changed:
- package rocksndiamonds (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
+ rocksndiamonds failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation
script returned error exit status 1 / Use of uninitialized
