Sorry for the crude answer. As you can imagine, the Oneiric release shakes out a whole lot of bugs which ought to have been discovered during alpha and beta testing, but which still only now begin to show. Because of the large number of new bugs to process, I neglected to include detailed triage instructions; it is obviously too late now, but for future reference, on a working system, it would have been a simple apport-collect command to add the missing logs; see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_Apport_Information (but then on the other hand, on a properly working system, they would have been included automatically).
Obviously, if you have reinstalled your system, the problem you reported cannot be investigated with any accuracy any longer. In such cases, the proper way to proceed would be to tag this case as Invalid and close it. That is not to imply that your pain and frustration are unimportant, just that this bug tracker's workflow considers as valid only bugs which can meaningfully be investigated. If it is any consolation, your diagnosis of errors with *.pem files coupled with similar reports from others point to a possible problem with the ca-certificates package. This may or may not have been the root cause for the problems you experienced, but your input helps set the priority for looking into the apparent bug in this particular package. My apologies for not taking the time to give you proper instructions for following up on this. I hope this incident and how I mishandled it will not have harmed your trust in Ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873810 Title: could not install dictionaries-common when upgrading to ubuntu 11.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates/+bug/873810/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
