package syslinux-themes-debian 12-3 failed to install/upgrade: package syslinux-themes-debian is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')

[ashish]

error after upgrade from 14.04 to 14.10

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: syslinux-themes-debian 12-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-17.23-generic 3.16.3
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-17-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 27 00:07:52 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:syslinux-themes-debian:12-3:package syslinux-themes-debian is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
ErrorMessage: package syslinux-themes-debian is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-03 (23 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: syslinux-themes-debian
Title: package syslinux-themes-debian 12-3 failed to install/upgrade: package syslinux-themes-debian is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-09-26 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[rico47 (kinsnook)]

After purging unetbootin did manual remove & reinstall and error went away.

[Richard Elkins (texadactyl)]

Not the "end of the world" (just a distraction) but I was upgrading from 14.04 to 14.04 and saw this:

dpkg: error processing package syslinux-themes-debian (--configure):
 package syslinux-themes-debian is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
Errors were encountered while processing:
 syslinux-themes-debian
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Richard Elkins (texadactyl)]

Oops! 14.04 to 14.10. Sorry about that. I wish that I had 5 minutes after posting to correct mistakes! (-:

[Richard Elkins (texadactyl)]

Potential work-around for people - I was consistently having this issue with apt-get dist-upgrade after the 14.04 to 14.10 upgrade. I found that apt-get autoremove got rid of the half-baked packages (syslinux-themes-debian, syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy).

[Jfpoujol (jfpoujol)]

I had the same issue in 2 of my computers. For both the workaround was to remove syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy and then install it again with :
apt-get remove syslinux-themes-debian
apt-get autoremove
apt-get install syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy

Finally the package was installed correctly :

# dpkg -l | grep syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy
ii syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy 12-3 all collection of boot loaders (debian-wheezy theme)

hope that helps.

[Aldo Bassi (aldobassi)]

confirm that after unetbootin manual remove & reinstall error went away.

[Chris McCray (cjjmccray)]

Jfpoujol's instructions on 10-Nov-2014 worked and fixed my machine too.

[Stephen Alston (alston1of1)]

Thanks guys! Jfpoujol's comment did the job!

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1042511, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.