can't remove empathy package
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Empathy |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
apt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm trying to upgrade my Lynx 10.04, but apt-get is stuck. I got to the point where "empathy" and "rhythmbox" need to be uninstalled. I'm dead in the water until I can get this resolved.
I'm trying to uninstall empathy and rhythmbox in my system, which I upgraded a week ago from Koala 9.10 to Lynx 10.04 LTS.
I'm running on a Dell Latitude E6500 with a dual-processor x86_64.
(Many things are broken, and this seems to be one step in getting closer to getting a working system.)
Apt-get (after many updates and upgrades) said to run apt-get -f install.
Here's the output:
% apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
empathy rhythmbox
Suggested packages:
python-coherence brasero rhythmbox-
Recommended packages:
rhythmbox-
The following packages will be upgraded:
empathy rhythmbox
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
38 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/3,129kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 421451 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3 (using .../empathy_
Unpacking replacement empathy ...
dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
Preparing to replace gnome-settings-
Unpacking replacement gnome-settings-
dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
Preparing to replace nautilus-data 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 (using .../nautilus-
Unpacking replacement nautilus-data ...
dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
Preparing to replace rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu3 (using .../rhythmbox_
Unpacking replacement rhythmbox ...
dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
Preparing to replace rhythmbox-
Unpacking replacement rhythmbox-
dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
tags: | added: kj-triage |
affects: | empathy (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu) |
Changed in empathy: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
This problem with apt-get is preventing me from doing ANY updates to my system.
If you know of a workaround, I would appreciate learning how to proceed.
Thanks,
Steve