Comment 4 for bug 147963

This is preventing several important pacakges from installing.

Could we get some help here please?

Thanks.

$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-crypto libboost-regex1.34.1 python-paramiko guile-g-wrap python-dev python-rpm
  libboost-iostreams1.34.1 guile-library g-wrap libtext-template-perl libpurple-bin
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb openoffice.org-l10n-en-za libsexymm2 libglademm-2.4-1c2a libgwrap-runtime0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
21 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up hal (0.5.9.1-6ubuntu1) ...
 * Reloading system message bus config... [ OK ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-mount:
 gnome-mount depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-mount (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
 gnome-power-manager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-session:
 gnome-session depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
  Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-volume-manager:
 gnome-volume-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.5.1); however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
 gnome-volume-manager depends on gnome-mount; however:
  Package gnome-mount is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-volume-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-cups-utils:
 hal-cups-utils depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-cups-utils (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-common:
 hwdb-client-common depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-common (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-gnome:
 hwdb-client-gnome depends on hwdb-client-common (>= 0.6-0ubuntu23); however:
  Package hwdb-client-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-gnome (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-device-manager:
 hal-device-manager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
 hal-device-manager depends on hwdb-client-gnome; however:
  Package hwdb-client-gnome is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-device-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-kde:
 hwdb-client-kde depends on hwdb-client-common; however:
  Package hwdb-client-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-kde (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-guidance-powermanager:
 kde-guidance-powermanager depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-guidance-powermanager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kubuntu-desktop:
 kubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
 kubuntu-desktop depends on hwdb-client-kde; however:
  Package hwdb-client-kde is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
 network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-gnome:
 network-manager-gnome depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.5); however:
  Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-gnome (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-kde:
 network-manager-kde depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.2); however:
  Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-kde (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sound-juicer:
 sound-juicer depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sound-juicer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of thunar-volman:
 thunar-volman depends on gnome-mount; however:
  Package gnome-mount is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing thunar-volman (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
 update-notifier depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
 ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
  Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-session; however:
  Package gnome-session is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-volume-manager; however:
  Package gnome-volume-manager is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on hal-device-manager; however:
  Package hal-device-manager is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on hwdb-client-gnome; however:
  Package hwdb-client-gnome is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on sound-juicer; however:
  Package sound-juicer is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on update-notifier; however:
  Package update-notifier is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xfce4-session:
 xfce4-session depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xfce4-session (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xubuntu-desktop:
 xubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-mount; however:
  Package gnome-mount is not configured yet.
 xubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
  Package hal is not configured yet.
 xubuntu-desktop depends on thunar-volman; however:
  Package thunar-volman is not configured yet.
 xubuntu-desktop depends on xfce4-session; however:
  Package xfce4-session is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hal
 gnome-mount
 gnome-power-manager
 gnome-session
 gnome-volume-manager
 hal-cups-utils
 hwdb-client-common
 hwdb-client-gnome
 hal-device-manager
 hwdb-client-kde
 kde-guidance-powermanager
 kubuntu-desktop
 network-manager
 network-manager-gnome
 network-manager-kde
 sound-juicer
 thunar-volman
 update-notifier
 ubuntu-desktop
 xfce4-session
 xubuntu-desktop
Saving new apt-history status...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)