[Bug 510768] Re: Empathy-common: Broken package

[Chelmite]

I'm have the same problem. Empathy is broken and apt-get/aptitude won't
let me uninstall it. I've tried repairing things with "apt-get -f
install". I'm really stuck, as I get lots of errors when I run aptitude
or apt-get.

The commands I ran and the results I got are shown below.

When I run 
% apt-cache policy nautilus-sendto-empathy
nautilus-sendto-empathy:
  Installed: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3 0apt-cache policy nautilus-sendto-empathy
nautilus-sendto-empathy:
  Installed: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.30.0.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

% aptitude search empathy
Bu  empathy                               - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client       
H   empathy-common                        - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (commo
p   empathy-dbg                           - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (debug
p   empathy-dbgsym                        - debug symbols for package empathy               
v   libempathy-common                     -                                                 
v   libempathy-gtk-common                 -                                                 
u   nautilus-sendto-empathy               - GNOME multi-protocol chat and call client (nauti
p   nautilus-sendto-empathy-dbgsym        - debug symbols for package nautilus-sendto-empath
% 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:
  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad python-coherence rhythmbox-plugin-coherence
The following packages will be upgraded:
  empathy rhythmbox
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
53 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4,055kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
(Reading database ... 183268 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 empathy-common 2.30.1-0ubuntu1 (using .../empathy-common_2.30.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement empathy-common ...
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-common_2.30.1-0ubuntu1_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 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
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 totem-common 2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1 (using .../totem-common_2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement totem-common ...
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/totem-common_2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1_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
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
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
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/empathy-common_2.30.1-0ubuntu1_all.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/totem-common_2.30.0git20100413-0ubuntu1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox_0.12.8-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Empathy-common: Broken package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510768
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