Hey, it happens to me sometimes, and I think is something wrong in the configuration of my system, as I have been using my /home directory since a lot of old and pre-release versions of Ubuntu.
Looking the error message, you can see that the program "install-info" lacks an argument saying the directory where the info files must be installed, or something like that. This program is executed from the postinst script of the package the moment you installed or upgraded it. So what I'm doing as a workaround is to go to the directory: /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and open the PACKAGE.postinst script file with a text editor in order to fix or rather comment the lines containing the wrong install-info command. They are generally a few lines. After doing that, you will be able to use the package managment system as usual to finish the instalation and install any other packages until you find another conflicting postinst script. Hope this helps you. PS: (PACKAGE means the package of interest, as in this folder are all the postinst scripts of your installed packages) -- dpkg: error processing util-linux (--configure): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
