Comment 10 for bug 149836

I have tried the above and when I do root@yourhost: /~# aptitude install linux-image-2.6.22-12-generic linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-12-generic I get in the list:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "2.6.22-12-generic"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22-12-generic"
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-image
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  acpi-support acpid powermanagement-interface ubuntu-desktop
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/25.4kB of archives. After unpacking 53.2kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package linux-image.
(Reading database ... 113935 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image (from .../linux-image_2.6.22.14.21_i386.deb) ...
Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu8) ...
 * Loading ACPI modules... [ OK ]
 * Starting ACPI services... invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support:
 acpi-support depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4-1ubuntu4); however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of powermanagement-interface:
 powermanagement-interface depends on acpi-support (>= 0.17); however:
  Package acpi-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing powermanagement-interface (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
 ubuntu-desktop depends on acpi-support; however:
  Package acpi-support is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on acpid; however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
 ubuntu-desktop depends on powermanagement-interface; however:
  Package powermanagement-interface is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up linux-image (2.6.22.14.21) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid
 acpi-support
 powermanagement-interface
 ubuntu-desktop
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu8) ...
 * Loading ACPI modules... [ OK ]
 * Starting ACPI services... invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
 ubuntu-desktop depends on acpid; however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support:
 acpi-support depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4-1ubuntu4); however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of powermanagement-interface:
 powermanagement-interface depends on acpi-support (>= 0.17); however:
  Package acpi-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing powermanagement-interface (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid
 ubuntu-desktop
 acpi-support
 powermanagement-interface
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

When do a purge still get dependency problems, how can I fix my issue?