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Recurring crash during updates package libinput10:i386 1.6.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration

Bug #1748177 reported by Bob Wilson on 2018-02-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1969787: package libinput-bin 1.15.5-1ubuntu0.3 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libinput (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Recurring

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libinput10:i386 1.6.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-96.143-generic 3.13.11-ckt39
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-96-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 1 17:38:45 2018
DuplicateSignature:
package:libinput10:i386:1.6.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.1
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 (2.48.2-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing package libinput10:i386 (--configure):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
ErrorMessage: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-07 (671 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.3
apt 1.2.24
SourcePackage: libinput
Title: package libinput10:i386 1.6.3-1ubuntu1~16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-09-21 (505 days ago)

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Bob Wilson (rewilsoniii) wrote on 2018-02-08:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (867 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (521 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
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DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (4.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (11.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (769 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2018-02-08

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2018-02-09:

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 1737543, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.