package foomatic-filters 4.0.0-0ubuntu0.2 failed to install/upgrade: package foomatic-filters is not ready for configuration

[Beni]

Binary package hint: foomatic-filters

I run the latest updates via update manager. The Manager stopped with an error. When rerunning the update manager I got another error with the suggestion to do
sudo dpkg --configure -a

but this fails with
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
Aborted

I tried to force the installation as root with:
apt-get -f install

After this several applications crashed. The output of the last command is attatched.

---- snip ----
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
13 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: error processing foomatic-filters (--configure):
 package foomatic-filters is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
dpkg: error processing libxine1-bin (--configure):
 package libxine1-bin is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-bin (--configure):
 package libgtk2.0-bin is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
dpkg: error processing rhythmbox (--configure):
 package rhythmbox is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
root@flclapbeni:/home/blutz# dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
Aborted

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: package foomatic-filters is not ready for configuration
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: foomatic-filters 4.0.0-0ubuntu0.2
SourcePackage: foomatic-filters
Title: package foomatic-filters 4.0.0-0ubuntu0.2 failed to install/upgrade: package foomatic-filters is not ready for configuration
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 323073 and 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 in it. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.