Comment 3 for bug 244098

I can confirm this issue, but on powerpc, and with exit status "1" not "127":

bbogart@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gnuplot libwvstreams4.3-extras libfaad2-0 libmtp6 libneon26 python-at-spi
  libsnmp10 libicu36 linux-headers-2.6.22-14-powerpc64-smp
  linux-headers-2.6.22-14-powerpc libgfortran1 libmagick++9c2a g++-4.1
  libglew1.4 libmp4v2-0 libcamel1.2-10 libcln4 libgpod2 libstdc++6-4.1-dev
  libsvg1 libpcrecpp0 libx264-54 gutsy-wallpapers libqalculate3
  libgtkhtml2.0-cil libdirectfb-0.9-25 openoffice.org-hyphenation libgsl0
  libwvstreams4.3-base libiso9660-4 liboobs-1-3 libdb4.5
  linux-headers-2.6.22-14 libtotem-plparser7 libuniconf4.3 feisty-gdm-themes
  libntfs-3g12 librsvg2.0-cil libungif4g
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up openoffice.org-writer2latex (0.5-6) ...
Adding extension /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/writer2latex.uno.pkg...
unopkg failed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer2latex (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org:
 openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-writer2latex; however:
  Package openoffice.org-writer2latex is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openoffice.org-writer2latex
 openoffice.org
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This happened during my gutsy -> hardy upgrade.