Comment 2 for bug 366536

I installed your updated drivers from your PPA hoping it might fix my problem from:

> https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/

Unfortunately, fglrx is still broken and in trying to get back to my old configuration I am unable to reinstall/reconfigure the x server:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  fglrx-kernel-source
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  fglrx-kernel-source
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2320kB of archives.
After this operation, 7328kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 335322 files and directories currently installed.)

Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-core 2:1.6.0-0ubuntu14 (using .../xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.6.0-0ubuntu14_amd64.deb) ...

Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-core ...

dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old post-removal script: Permission denied

dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2

dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...

dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.6.0-0ubuntu14_amd64.deb (--unpack):

 unable to install (supposed) new info file `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm': Is a directory

Processing triggers for man-db ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.6.0-0ubuntu14_amd64.deb

What is weird here, is the /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci path it complains about doesn't even exist! How do I fix this?