Public bug reported: I was trying to do something unrelated in Kubuntu and got this error. I had earlier exited out of Adept Installer a little early, but it had reported everything was OK when I went back in and it tried to recover.
Can't install anything else due to this problem, and can't remove this package. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get remove libsndfile1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libsndfile1 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 15 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y dpkg: error processing libsndfile1 (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: libsndfile1 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ProblemType: Package Architecture: amd64 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ErrorMessage: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 SourcePackage: libsndfile Title: package libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64 ** Affects: libsndfile (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Invalid ** Tags: apport-package -- package libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 failed to install/upgrade: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs