Crash during Java installation

[Zigoto]

I was installing LimeWire 5.2.4 (Beta) which led to the installation of Java as a dependency. During the install, the CPU frequency went up to 2.5 Ghz and the computer shut down due to overheating when Synaptic was still working. I rebooted, ran Synaptic again which asked to run dpkg --configure -a in the console, I did it and relaunched Synaptic. Then I followed the instructions and removed the broken Java package and everything seems to be working fine now. (Ubuntu 8.10 for AMD64).

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
Package: sun-java6-jre 6-10-0ubuntu2 [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-jre.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: sun-java6
Title: package sun-java6-jre 6-10-0ubuntu2 [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/sun-java6-jre.list] failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64

[Zigoto (zigoto)]

Just as a clarification, I thought I was able to remove the broken Java package, but it simply didn't work. I nevertheless exited Synaptic and then got an update notice for these package, which fortunately worked fine. Now everything is OK.