Comment 15 for bug 948294

Sorry about not keeping up on this, had to give up the system this was happening as a loaner for a little bit.

I'm attaching the last term.log file where this was failing.

I finally got around it by looking at the installed gconf stuff to come up with this:

dpkg --purge --force-depends libgconf-2.4 libgconf-2.6-1c2 libgconf2.0-cil libgconf2-4 gconf-service-backend gconf-service gconf-defaults-service gconf2-common gconf2

: after that I was able to do 'apt-get -f install' and the necessarry gconf stuff was pulled in and installed correctly.