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  1. Bug #238755
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 238755

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 238755] Re: 'Account has expired' message when adding a new user, after "passwd -l root"

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:31:28AM -0000, wayward4now wrote:
> It seems that the updated package will not install. Getting this error in Synaptic:
> E: landscape-common: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

Doesn't seem related - that sometimes happens if e.g. you have a power
failure in the middle of installing packages. In general finding the
landscape-common .deb and running 'dpkg -i
/path/to/landscape-common.deb' (and then successively dealing with any
error messages that that in turn throws up; 'dpkg --configure -a' may be
useful, for instance) will deal with this.