tl;dr: your system is in a mess.
Please contact user support if you don't know how to handle it, but it's most
likely due to some odd thing you did rather than a bug.
** Changed in: libxml2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1742902
Title:
package libxml2:amd64 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5 failed to
install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you
should reinstall it before attempting configuration
Status in libxml2 package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
anggifw@anggi-TMA:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 163 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/697 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
dpkg: error processing package libxml2:amd64 (--configure):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64:
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 depends on libxml2 (>= 2.7.4); however:
Package libxml2:amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gir1.2-webkit2-4.0:amd64:
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0:amd64 depends on libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.17.90);
however:
Package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package gir1.2-webkit2-4.0:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2:amd64:
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2:amd64 depends on libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (=
2.18.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1); however:
Package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64 is not configured yet.
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2:amd64 depends on libxml2 (>= 2.7.4); however:
Package libxml2:amd64 is not configured No apport report written because
the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport
report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a
previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
yet.
dpkg: error processing package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2:amd64 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk:
ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk depends on gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 |
gir1.2-webkit-3.0; however:
Package gir1.2-webkit2-4.0:amd64 is not configured yet.
Package gir1.2-webkit-3.0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libxml2:amd64
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37:amd64
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0:amd64
libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2:amd64
ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libxml2:amd64 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jan 12 16:57:19 2018
DuplicateSignature:
package:libxml2:amd64:2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
dpkg: error processing package libxml2:amd64 (--configure):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
ErrorMessage: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20170801)
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.3
apt 1.2.24
SourcePackage: libxml2
Title: package libxml2:amd64 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5 failed to
install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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