Well after a good long time of just dealing with the problem waiting for the answer to slip through some crack in the knowledge base I just reinstalled my OS partition without editing /home.
booted into the newly installed os and used fstab linked my /home partition back up with the root fliesystem. I now have no problem with certificates and it only took me ~45mins Timothy Gordon Operator and Holder slashRoot: coffee house and tech dojo 60 Main St. New Paltz, NY (845)633-8330 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951347 Title: package ca-certificates-java 20100412 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ca-certificates-java/+bug/951347/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
