colord failure prevents package installs

[Dzmitry Lazerka]

$ sudo apt-get upgrade -V
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   nvidia-experimental-310 (310.14-0ubuntu0.3 => 310.14-0ubuntu1)
   xorg (7.6+12ubuntu2 => 7.7+1ubuntu4)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up colord (0.1.21-1ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing colord (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 colord
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

in dpkg.log:
startup packages configure
2013-05-14 14:23:51 configure colord:amd64 0.1.21-1ubuntu2 <none>
2013-05-14 14:23:51 status half-configured colord:amd64 0.1.21-1ubuntu2

I've first received that during upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, and receiving it right now every time I run apt-get install.
Also, "Report problem" process often crashes, so I'm not sure if any of the reports reached Ubuntu bug collector service.

It may or may not be connected to my other issue with 12.10 -- sudden unity logout without warning and with no pattern.