[Bug 577122] Re: can't remove empathy package

[Chelmite]

This problem with apt-get is preventing me from doing ANY updates to my system.
If you know of a workaround, I would appreciate learning how to proceed.
Thanks,

Steve

** Description changed:

+ I'm trying to upgrade my Lynx 10.04, but apt-get is stuck. I got to the
+ point where "empathy" and "rhythmbox" need to be uninstalled. I'm dead
+ in the water until I can get this resolved.
+ 
  I'm trying to uninstall empathy and rhythmbox in my system, which I upgraded a week ago from Koala 9.10 to Lynx 10.04 LTS.
  I'm running on a Dell Latitude E6500 with a dual-processor x86_64.
  (Many things are broken, and this seems to be one step in getting closer to getting a working system.)
  
  Apt-get (after many updates and upgrades) said to run apt-get -f install.
  Here's the output:
  
  % apt-get -f install
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    empathy rhythmbox
  Suggested packages:
    python-coherence brasero rhythmbox-plugin-coherence
  Recommended packages:
    rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    empathy rhythmbox
  2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
  38 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B/3,129kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
  (Reading database ... 421451 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace empathy 2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3 (using .../empathy_2.30.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement empathy ...
  dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/empathy_2.30.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  Preparing to replace gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.0-0ubuntu6 (using .../gnome-settings-daemon_2.30.0-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement gnome-settings-daemon ...
  dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-settings-daemon_2.30.0-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  Preparing to replace nautilus-data 1:2.30.0-0ubuntu4 (using .../nautilus-data_1%3a2.30.0-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement nautilus-data ...
  dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nautilus-data_1%3a2.30.0-0ubuntu4_all.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  Preparing to replace rhythmbox 0.12.8-0ubuntu3 (using .../rhythmbox_0.12.8-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement rhythmbox ...
  dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox_0.12.8-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  Preparing to replace rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store 0.0.9-0ubuntu1 (using .../rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store_0.0.9-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store ...
  dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store_0.0.9-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 245
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
  Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
  Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
  Processing triggers for menu ...
  Processing triggers for python-support ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/empathy_2.30.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
   /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-settings-daemon_2.30.0-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
   /var/cache/apt/archives/nautilus-data_1%3a2.30.0-0ubuntu4_all.deb
   /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox_0.12.8-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
   /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox-ubuntuone-music-store_0.0.9-0ubuntu1_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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can't remove empathy package
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