Comment 2 for bug 318700

this happened after upgrade to karmic from jaunty. any ideas on how to fix?
When I do sudo apt-get upgrade from the terminal i get the following output:
rob@rrichey-linux:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
[sudo] password for rob:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  adobe-flashplugin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up mawk (1.3.3-15ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/bin/awk is already managed by awk.before_restore_2008-12-09_12.08.26.323931.
dpkg: error processing mawk (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up chromium-browser (4.0.269.0~svn20091210r34249-0ubuntu1~ucd1~karmic) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/bin/x-www-browser is already managed by x-www-browser.before_restore_2008-12-09_12.08.26.323931.
dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-browser-inspector:
 chromium-browser-inspector depends on chromium-browser; however:
  Package chromium-browser is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-browser-inspector (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up firefox-3.5 (3.5.5+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/bin/x-www-browser is already managed by x-www-browser.before_restore_2008-12-09_12.08.26.323931.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox:
 firefox depends on firefox-3.5; however:
  Package firefox-3.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox-3.0:
 firefox-3.0 depends on firefox-3.5; however:
  Package firefox-3.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox-3.0 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up gcj-4.3 (4.3.4-4ubuntu1) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                            No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                          update-alternatives: error: alternative link /usr/bin/tnameserv is already managed by tnameserv.before_restore_2008-12-09_12.08.26.323931.
dpkg: error processing gcj-4.3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubufox:
 ubufox depends on firefox | abrowser | firefox-3.0 | firefox-2; however:
  Package firefox is not configured yet.
  Package abrowser is not installed.
  Package firefox-3.0 is not configured yet.
  Package firefox-3.5 which provides firefox-3.0 is not configured yet.
  Package firefox-2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ubufox (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                            Errors were encountered while processing:
 mawk
 chromium-browser
 chromium-browser-inspector
 firefox-3.5
 firefox
 firefox-3.0
 gcj-4.3
 ubufox
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
rob@rrichey-linux:~$