package freepats 20060219-1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

[Eric G]

I don't know if it was because of using the AMD64 Ubuntu 11.04 system or because I tried installing extra Gstreamer codecs in both the 'ugly' and 'bad' sets to play the Spiderman 3 DVD in Movie Player. They seemed to work just fine in Ubuntu 10.04 on my older, AthlonXP PC till the mobo lost USB and then PS2 ports.
One thing says to reinstall freepats and then remove it to clear the problem, but I'm not sure which package even originally contained it or how it glitched. The Ubuntu SW Ctr has no freepats entry, and the Synaptic Pkg Mgr failed to remove, install, or upgrade it. Is this a phantom problem? Freepats seems to be for MIDI files and I haven't even tried to play one yet!

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: freepats 20060219-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
AptOrdering: freepats: Remove
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 20 17:49:09 2011
Dependencies:

DpkgTerminalLog:
 dpkg: error processing freepats (--remove):
  Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
  reinstall it before attempting a removal.
ErrorMessage: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: freepats
Title: package freepats 20060219-1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-09-21 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.