cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')

[Faisal Khan]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

faisalkhan@ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall
[sudo] password for faisalkhan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  cups
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
dpkg: error processing cups (--configure):
 package cups is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.24.1.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Reassigning to cups

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

This is a package failure between currently unsupported releases so we couldn't fix this anyway.