"Applying changes" forever on Gimp add-ons

[brian russell]

Binary package hint: software-center

tried to install add-ons:
gimp-plugin-registry
gimp- data-extras

simply says (In Progress) and hours go by, with no resolution. By opening all processes in the system monitor, there is an uninterruptible dpkg process:

from the terminal :~$ ps aux | grep dpkg
root 18703 0.0 1.5 34548 31036 pts/1 Ds+ 14:24 0:01 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 17 --unpack --auto-deconfigure /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-data-extras_1%3a2.0.1-3_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-gmic_1.3.5.7+dfsg-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgfortran3_4.5.1-7ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libatlas3gf-base_3.8.3-22ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libglew1.5_1.5.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgtkglext1_1.2.0-1.1fakesync2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_3.9.4-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/gimp-plugin-registry_3.2-1_i386.deb

cannot find a way to kill this process.

As soon as the software-center reopens, it is in the same state of halfway-installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 3.0.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Feb 21 14:57:12 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Thanks for this report, and sorry for the slow response. If you still experience the problem, could you please trigger it once, and then attach these files:
/var/log/dpkg.log
/var/log/apthistory.log
/var/log/syslog

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for software-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]