Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: synaptic
An upgrade through upgrade-manager was interrupted when my Toshiba
Satellite's temperature sensors halted the system. Later, synaptic
insisted that I run
dpkg --configure -a
which completed without errors. On running synaptic again, I found one
broken package (wine-dev). I tried to remove it, and I was told
E: wine-dev: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
I tried removing it again with "Details" shown. There, it said
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
The line break is verbatim from the details window. It looks like a bad
assumption was made by Synaptic in parsing the dpkg output. It would
obviously be much more helpful if Synaptic showed the full message.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue May 6 19:24:38 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: synaptic 0.60ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: synaptic
ProcCwd: /home/mike/bin
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux mike-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008
i686 GNU/Linux
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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Unnecessarily incomplete advice for package in inconsistent state
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/227543
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