Looks like I might have a failed install of wine - attempting to re- apply 1.1.39-0ubuntu1~karmic5 reproduces the python2.4 + python2.5 installation failure.
Happy to go back to Wine on karmic main, I removed the PPA repo and attempted to reinstall Wine 1.1.31-0ubuntu3, which triggers errors this time with python2.4-minimal and python2.5 minimal. The other possibility is that I moved up to Telepathy/Empathy from PPA the other day, as it is utterly broken for ICQ+AIM in Karmic. Log started: 2010-03-07 08:12:21 Selecting previously deselected package wine1.2. (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 5% <snip> (Reading database ... 100% (Reading database ... 284313 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking wine1.2 (from .../wine1.2_1.1.31-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package wine1.2-gecko. Unpacking wine1.2-gecko (from .../wine1.2-gecko_1.0.0-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4.6-1ubuntu3.2.9.10.1) ... update-binfmts: /var/lib/binfmts/wine corrupt: out of binfmt data reading type dpkg: error processing python2.4-minimal (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up python2.5-minimal (2.5.4-1ubuntu6.1) ... Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5... /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/microblog/__init__.py:132: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/microblog/__init__.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/microblog/__init__.py", line 132 except Exception as e: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/resources.py:49: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/resources.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/resources.py", line 49 with open(os.path.join(theme_dir, "theme.version")) as f: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Errors were ignored. /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Onboard/KeyboardSVG.py:104: Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Onboard/KeyboardSVG.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Onboard/KeyboardSVG.py", line 104 with open(pane_svg_filename) as svg_file: ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Errors were ignored. update-binfmts: /var/lib/binfmts/wine corrupt: out of binfmt data reading type dpkg: error processing python2.5-minimal (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up wine1.2 (1.1.31-0ubuntu3) ... update-binfmts: /var/lib/binfmts/wine corrupt: out of binfmt data reading type kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7 net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1 net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1 vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 vm.mmap_min_addr = 0 Setting up wine1.2-gecko (1.0.0-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: python2.4-minimal python2.5-minimal Log ended: 2010-03-07 08:12:29 -- update-binfmts: /var/lib/binfmts/wine corrupt: out of binfmt data https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532458 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs