package chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

[Ian Vallely]

Menu system has become unusable,

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
AptOrdering:
 chromium-browser-l10n: Remove
 unity-chromium-extension: Remove
 chromium-browser: Remove
 chromium-codecs-ffmpeg: Remove
Architecture: i386
ChromiumPrefs: can't open profile /root/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
Date: Tue Feb 19 12:40:19 2013
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = None
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = None
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = None
DiskUsage:
 b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 ext4 141G 104G 31G 78% /\nudev devtmpfs 1.5G 4.0K 1.5G 1% /dev\ntmpfs tmpfs 580M 1.1M 579M 1% /run\nnone tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 1.5G 152K 1.5G 1% /run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 68K 100M 1% /run/user\n'

 Inodes:
 b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 9.0M 347K 8.6M 4% /\nudev 208K 531 208K 1% /dev\ntmpfs 214K 461 213K 1% /run\nnone 214K 3 214K 1% /run/lock\nnone 214K 6 214K 1% /run/shm\nnone 214K 28 214K 1% /run/user\n'
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Removing chromium-browser-l10n ...
 Removing unity-chromium-extension ...
 dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--remove):
  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
DuplicateSignature:
 Removing unity-chromium-extension ...
 dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--remove):
  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
ErrorMessage: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-22 (180 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
Title: package chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-31 (49 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'ubuntu-mono-dark\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Ambiance\n'

[Saikrishna Arcot (saiarcot895)]

Do you still have this error? If so, try "apt-get -f install chromium-browser", then remove it, then install it again.

[Saikrishna Arcot (saiarcot895)]

Are you still unable to upgrade to Chromium 28 (should be 29 soon)?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Closing now, due to lack of feedback from original reporter. Given the age of the bug let's assume this is not relevant any longer.