Public bug reported:
I'm running 8.04 (HH) with "proposed updates" and the system is fully up to
date.
I had used another theme "Blubuntu" that I wished to remove and it was after
uninstalling Blubuntu that I forced an update of ubuntu-desktop. I'm not sure,
there may also have been an update to ubuntu-desktop too. However, I am sure
there was an upgrade of HAL that had failed to install.
This appears to have been caused by the upgrade of HAL not completing. This is
because the update of HAL cannot complete while HAL is running (meaning it
doesn't work from within the graphical "Update Manager").
I fixed the HAL update (and the desktop one too) by
1) Starting a console session (ATL-CTRL-F1)
2) logged in
3) sudo killall gdm
4) sudo killall hald
(to ensure no HAL running).
5) sudo aptitude
this identified the two partially installed packages (HAL and Ubuntu-Desktop)
and completed their installation.
6) reboot
All fine now.
This problem of updates to HAL failing needs to be addressed: something
needs adding to the start-up so that in the event of hal updates, then
at the next reboot a dpkg is run to complete the HAL installation.
Normal users are not able to deal with this level of complexity.
David
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 21 21:04:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.102
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
Title: package ubuntu-desktop 1.102 failed to install/upgrade: dependency
problems - leaving unconfigured
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-rt i686
** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-package
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package ubuntu-desktop 1.102 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems -
leaving unconfigured
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364891
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