The broken entry looks like this: Depends: gconf2 (>= 2.10.1-2), gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs, gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer0.10-plugins-good, hal, libart-2.0-2 (>= ), libatk1.0-0 (>= ), libbonobo2-0 (>= ), libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.15.1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= ), libcdio7, libdbus-1-3 (>= ), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.74), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfontconfig1 (>= ), libfreetype6 (>= ), libgcc1 (>= 1:), libgconf2-4 (>= ), libglade2-0 (>= 1:), libglib2.0-0 (>= ), libgnome-media0, libgnome2-0 (>= ), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= ), libgnomeui-0 (>= ), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:), libgnomevfs2-extra, libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.3), libgstreamer0.10-0 (>= 0.10.14), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libhal1, libice6 (>= 1:), liblaunchpad-integration1 (>= 0.1.17), libmusicbrainz4c2a (>= 2.1.5), libnautilus-burn4, liborbit2 (>= 1:), libpango1.0-0 (>= ), libpixman-1-0, libpng12-0 (>= ), libpopt0 (>= ), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21), libtag1c2a (>= ), libx11-6, libxml2, libxrender1, zlib1g (>= 1:)
This doesn't look like filesystem corruption or other weirdness. My bet is that the package was faulty... but I can't find the faulty package to reproduce. So marking this bug as incomplete. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227031 Title: Update failed while installing packages (7.10 to 8.04) - System now hangs during booting up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs