Closing now, due to lack of feedback from original reporter. Given the age of the bug let's assume this is not relevant any longer.
** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1130100 Title: package chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Menu system has become unusable, ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-23.35-generic 3.5.7.2 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-23-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 AptOrdering: chromium-browser-l10n: Remove unity-chromium-extension: Remove chromium-browser: Remove chromium-codecs-ffmpeg: Remove Architecture: i386 ChromiumPrefs: can't open profile /root/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences Date: Tue Feb 19 12:40:19 2013 Desktop-Session: DESKTOP_SESSION = None XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = None XDG_DATA_DIRS = None DiskUsage: b'Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 ext4 141G 104G 31G 78% /\nudev devtmpfs 1.5G 4.0K 1.5G 1% /dev\ntmpfs tmpfs 580M 1.1M 579M 1% /run\nnone tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock\nnone tmpfs 1.5G 152K 1.5G 1% /run/shm\nnone tmpfs 100M 68K 100M 1% /run/user\n' Inodes: b'Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on\n/dev/sda1 9.0M 347K 8.6M 4% /\nudev 208K 531 208K 1% /dev\ntmpfs 214K 461 213K 1% /run\nnone 214K 3 214K 1% /run/lock\nnone 214K 6 214K 1% /run/shm\nnone 214K 28 214K 1% /run/user\n' DpkgTerminalLog: Removing chromium-browser-l10n ... Removing unity-chromium-extension ... dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. DuplicateSignature: Removing unity-chromium-extension ... dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should Env: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None ErrorMessage: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-08-22 (180 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: chromium-browser Title: package chromium-browser 23.0.1271.97-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-12-31 (49 days ago) chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'ubuntu-mono-dark\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Ambiance\n' To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1130100/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp