This is happening for me as well on Gutsy Tribe 2, and I have a P4.  I
believe it occurred under Tribe 1  as well.  It appears that the
microcode module is not loaded when the package installs.  The software
is installed, it's just not functional.  If you manually run the
program, you get:

microcode_ctl: writing microcode (length: 293888)
microcode_ctl: cannot open /dev/cpu/microcode for writing errno=2 (No such file 
or directory)

I noticed the module was not loaded, so I ldid a " modprobe microcode"
before running it, and got:

microcode_ctl: writing microcode (length: 293888)
microcode_ctl: microcode successfuly written to /dev/cpu/microcode

But in the syslog, a different error is coming up after the modprobe is
done

Jul  8 20:00:19 localhost kernel: [ 3580.303452] IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: 
v1.14a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jul  8 20:00:19 localhost firmware_helper[13116]: main: error loading 
'/lib/firmware/intel-ucode/0f-02-04' for device '/class/firmware/microcode' 
with driver '(unknown)'

Also, in the past I thought the program would report the version of
microcode that it updated upon a successful update.  I'm not seeing that
now.  But it looks like two issues are present, the kernel driver is not
loading, and the firmware helper seems confused on what it is supposed
to do.

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package microcode.ctl 1.17-1 failed to install: subprocess post-installation 
script returned error exit status 128
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123145
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