sudo apt-get upgrade fails due to shared-mime-info.postinst error

On my server I am getting following issue. sudo apt-get update work successfully but sudo apt-get upgrade fails with following error. Please help me to solve this issue.

administrator@myserver:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  firefox linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
21 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up shared-mime-info (0.71-1ubuntu2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/shared-mime-info.postinst: line 13: 17650 Segmentation fault      update-mime-database.real /usr/share/mime
dpkg: error processing shared-mime-info (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-0:
 libgtk2.0-0 depends on shared-mime-info; however:
  Package shared-mime-info is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-0 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-browser:
 chromium-browser depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg:
 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg depends on chromium-browser (>= 4.0.203.0~); however:
  Package chromium-browser is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-codecs-ffmpeg (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-browser-l10n:
 chromium-browser-l10n depends on chromium-browser (= 16.0.912.77~r118311-0ubuntu0.10.04.1)No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
             No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                                       No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
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                                                                 ; however:
  Package chromium-browser is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-browser-l10n (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libevdocument2:
 libevdocument2 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libevdocument2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libevview2:
 libevview2 depends on libevdocument2 (>= 2.29.5); however:
  Package libevdocument2 is not configured yet.
 libevview2 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libevview2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of evince:
 evince depends on libevdocument2 (>= 2.29.5); however:
  Package libevdocument2 is not configured yet.
 evince depends on libevview2 (>= 2.29.5)No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                                       ; however:
  Package libevview2 is not configured yet.
 evince depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
 evince depends on shared-mime-info; however:
  Package shared-mime-info is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing evince (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gcalctool:
 gcalctool depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gcalctool (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgdict-1.0-6:
 libgdict-1.0-6 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgdict-1.0-6 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-utils:
 gnome-utils depends on libgdict-1.0-6 (>= 2.23.90); however:
  Package libgdict-1.0-6 is not configured yet.
 gnome-utils depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk2-engines-pixbuf:
 gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0; however:
  Package gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0 is not installed.
  Package libgtk2.0-0 which provides gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0 is not configured yet.
 gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gtk2-engines-pixbuf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgail18:
 libgail18 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgail18 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-bin:
 libgtk2.0-bin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin:
 pidgin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pidgin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up update-manager (1:0.134.11.1) ...
dpkg: error processing update-manager (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 245
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
 update-notifier depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
 update-notifier depends on update-manager; however:
  Package update-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-1.9.2:
 xulrunner-1.9.2 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea6-plugin:
 icedtea6-plugin depends on xulrunner-1.9.2; however:
  Package xulrunner-1.9.2 is not configured yet.
 icedtea6-plugin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing icedtea6-plugin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgweather-common (2.30.0-0ubuntu1.1) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: error processing libgweather-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 245
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgweather1:
 libgweather1 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.11.0); however:
  Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
 libgweather1 depends on libgweather-common (>= 2.24.0); however:
  Package libgweather-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgweather1 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 shared-mime-info
 libgtk2.0-0
 chromium-browser
 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
 chromium-browser-l10n
 libevdocument2
 libevview2
 evince
 gcalctool
 libgdict-1.0-6
 gnome-utils
 gtk2-engines-pixbuf
 libgail18
 libgtk2.0-bin
 pidgin
 update-manager
 update-notifier
 xulrunner-1.9.2
 icedtea6-plugin
 libgweather-common
 libgweather1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
administrator@myserver:~$

Thanks, Avin

If the "dist-upgrade" solution doesn't work, try a forced reinstall of the package shared-mime-info:

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg -P --force-all shared-mime-info
sudo apt-get install shared-mime-info
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If it fails again, I need the full output of the above commands. If it's too big, use http://www.pastebin.com and share the link here.

I also need the output of:

apt-cache policy shared-mime-info
sudo gdb update-mime-database.real -ex 'r /usr/share/mime'

Something tells me you suffer from this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libxml2/+bug/759525

Try doing sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade if this show errors still open up synaptic > edit > fix broken packages reload and mark all upgrades.

This problem looks remarkably similar to this StackOverflow Question in that there was a segmentation fault for the same package shared-mime-info

The solution was buried in the comments prior to being redited back into the question (!) - download the maverick libxml2 package and install this prior to running:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Download the .deb file appropriate to your architecture (32bit is i386 and 64bt is amd64)

Install the package via the syntax:

sudo dpkg -i [foo].deb

where [foo] is the package file name that was downloaded.

for example use something like:

sudo dpkg -i libxml2_2.7.7.dfsg-4ubuntu0.3_i386.deb

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