Gunnar, Thanks for the quick response. There were quite a few other crashes while attempting to fix incomplete installs manually with apt-get and dpkg. There were several file-system breakages as well and it was all getting quite painful.
Apport was also failing to deliver crash reports and there must have been somewhere between 40 and 50 in all! It was being installed on a 2004 laptop with 1GB RAM and a 3GHz single core 32bit CPU and after all the chaos, I decided to go for Xububtu instead, much more responsive. The slowness of the unity UI was unacceptable and I couldn't turn off the fading and moving around of the windows. I was impressed that the recipe for conversion to Xubuntu went fairly smoothly. Still a half dozen crashes but it looks stable now! So, sadly, no I can't reinstall the packages as you suggest. Best regards. Paul On 20/06/15 09:25, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > Hi Paul! > > We think there is a dpkg bug which causes this kind of failure once in a > while - see bug #1364642. But this was a new variant... > > Can you please run: > > sudo apt-get purge ubuntu-docs > sudo apt-get install ubuntu-docs > > and let us know if it fixes it? > > ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466823 Title: package ubuntu-docs 15.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: package ubuntu- docs is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed') To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1466823/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
