Comment 29 for bug 262451

This happend to me today while upgrading my intrepid to latest packages. dpkg always crashed while --configure -a

A dpkg --audit showed me
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
 gxine the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome user interface

After manually removing gxine (dpkg --remove gxine) the problem went away.