[Bug 577122] [NEW] can't remove empathy package

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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)

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: kj-triage
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can't remove empathy package
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/577122
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