package cgmanager 0.32-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration

Thanks for reporting this bug. Could you please show the result of "apt-cache show cgmanager", append the file "/var/log/apt/term.log", and show what happens when you try "sudo apt-get install --reinstall cgmanager"

Here is the output:

garth@Dell-Latitude-D600:~$ sudo apt-cache show cgmanager
[sudo] password for garth:
Package: cgmanager
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 416
Maintainer: Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.32-4ubuntu1.2
Replaces: cgmanager-utils (<< 0.30-1)
Provides: cgmanager-utils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcgmanager0 (>= 0.32), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.2.16),
libnih-dbus1 (>= 1.0.0), libnih1 (>= 1.0.0), init-system-helpers (>=
1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7)
Conflicts: cgmanager-utils (<< 0.30-1)
Filename: pool/main/c/cgmanager/cgmanager_0.32-4ubuntu1.2_i386.deb
Size: 70328
MD5sum: 0f90e58f4a122917b9243313628c47af
SHA1: 3aff4dc37b24efd3d68feb66d50479f8e9cfbab2
SHA256: 936cef4f175feb00c5763029f4e71b8528a6fe51ad8aca22c4cbf7b8745e6bc6
Description-en: Central cgroup manager daemon
 cgmanager provides a central cgroup manager daemon and a
 per-namespace manager proxy, allowing users and programs
 to administrate cgroups through D-Bus requests.
 .
 This package contains the cgroup management daemon and
 proxy.
Description-md5: 573a1987c819a2ae4addaf68ae70241e
Homepage: http://cgmanager.linuxcontainers.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: standard, kubuntu-active, kubuntu-active, mythbuntu-frontend,
mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave,
mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master,
mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-desktop-next,
ubuntu-touch, ubuntu-touch, ubuntu-sdk

Package: cgmanager
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 420
Maintainer: Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.32-4ubuntu1.1
Replaces: cgmanager-utils (<< 0.30-1)
Provides: cgmanager-utils
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libcgmanager0 (>= 0.32), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.2.16),
libnih-dbus1 (>= 1.0.0), libnih1 (>= 1.0.0), init-system-helpers (>=
1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7)
Conflicts: cgmanager-utils (<< 0.30-1)
Filename: pool/main/c/cgmanager/cgmanager_0.32-4ubuntu1.1_i386.deb
Size: 70504
MD5sum: 285974e918f1b05761d7fdf0f6f16b4a
SHA1: 6ec7d80adb9f3c79abdbfab2a533e0b474af78e5
SHA256: fbdab7578dc71828279a90bebd0ee9e4f5cb7dfe52266c2d616c33baa8ac6a6f
Description-en: Central cgroup manager daemon
 cgmanager provides a central cgroup manager daemon and a
 per-namespace manager proxy, allowing users and programs
 to administrate cgroups through D-Bus requests.
 .
 This package contains the cgroup management daemon and
 proxy.
Description-md5: 573a1987c819a2ae4addaf68ae70241e
Homepage: http://cgmanager.linuxcontainers.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m
Task: standard, kubuntu-active, kubuntu-active, mythbuntu-frontend,
mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave,
mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master,
mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-desktop-next,
ubuntu-touch, ubuntu-touch, ubuntu-sdk

Package: cgmanager
Priority: standard
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 412
Maintainer: Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.32-4ubuntu1
Replaces: cgmanager-utils (<< 0.30-1)
Provides...

Plesae try the following:

1. cp /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/
2. sudo sed -i '/^Package: cgmanager$/,/^$/d' /var/lib/dpkg/status
3. sudo apt-get install cgmanager

Please let us know whether that appears to fix things

Serge,

Thank you for your very quick reply to my bug report. Here is the output
from your latest recommendations. It appears to me to have worked.

garth@Dell-Latitude-D600:~$ sudo apt-get install cgmanager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  cgmanager
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 88 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/70.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 426 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package cgmanager.
(Reading database ... 116536 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../cgmanager_0.32-4ubuntu1.2_i386.deb ...
Unpacking cgmanager (0.32-4ubuntu1.2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
Setting up cgmanager (0.32-4ubuntu1.2) ...
cgproxy stop/pre-start, process 12527
Setting up systemd-shim (8-1ubuntu0.1) ...
Installing new version of config file
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.systemd-shim.conf ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.8-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libpam-systemd:i386 (208-8ubuntu8.2) ...
garth@Dell-Latitude-D600:~$

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Serge Hallyn <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Plesae try the following:
>
> 1. cp /var/lib/dpkg/status ~/
> 2. sudo sed -i '/^Package: cgmanager$/,/^$/d' /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 3. sudo apt-get install cgmanager
>
> Please let us know whether that appears to fix things
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1418664
>
> Title:
> package cgmanager 0.32-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package is
> in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before
> attempting configuration
>
> Status in cgmanager package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Got this error when lubuntu software update ran.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
> Package: cgmanager 0.32-4ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
> Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Thu Feb 5 12:36:46 2015
> DuplicateSignature: package:cgmanager:0.32-4ubuntu1:package is in a very
> bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting
> configuration
> ErrorMessage: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
> reinstall it before attempting configuration
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-03 (2 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release i386
> (20141022.1)
> SourcePackage: cgmanager
> Title: package cgmanager 0.32-4ubuntu1 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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Great, thanks for the update. I frankly don't know what causes these cases. They seem to happen with random
packages. i also don't know what to mark the bug, as I'm quite certain it wasn't in cgmanager and was worked
around rather than fixed - but i'll mark it fix released.

Please reply if you have more apparently-related troubles.