I rebooted my VM a few times, and was able to remove chromium from Snap. Not sure why it took more than one reboot but something eventually got unstuck.
-- 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/1919951 Title: snap install seemed to crash the machine, reboot now put package management in a bad state Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Related to bug #1886414 Ubuntu 20.04 LTE desktop VirtualBox VM Tried installing chromium-browser. Seemed to hang at "installing chromium snap". Terminal and desktop were no longer responsive, so I had to reboot the VM, which apparently left the package manager in an inconsistent state. doug@ubuntudesktop:~$ sudo apt remove chromium-browser Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: chromium-browser 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 65 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y dpkg: error processing package chromium-browser (--remove): package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal dpkg: too many errors, stopping Errors were encountered while processing: chromium-browser Processing was halted because there were too many errors. E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: chromium-browser 80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-43.49~20.04.1-generic 5.8.18 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-43-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16 AptOrdering: chromium-browser:amd64: Remove NULL: ConfigurePending Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Thu Mar 18 12:02:11 2021 Dependencies: DpkgTerminalLog: dpkg: error processing package chromium-browser (--remove): package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal ErrorMessage: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-17 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1) Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.5, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2 PythonDetails: N/A RelatedPackageVersions: dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3 apt 2.0.4 SourcePackage: chromium-browser Title: package chromium-browser 80.0.3987.163-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1919951/+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
