Comment 5 for bug 1418664

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Garth Miller (miller-garth) wrote : Re: [Bug 1418664] Re: package cgmanager 0.32-4ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration

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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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1418664
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> 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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