apt-get dist-upgrade ends with error

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "CB" == Colin Brace <cb at lim.nl> writes:

    CB> I just attempted to upgrade from Breezy to Dapper by "apt-get
    CB> dist-upgrade", and after around an hour and forty minutes the process
    CB> terminated with an error message:

    CB> [...]
    CB> Removing gnomemeeting ...
    CB> gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4: undefined
    CB> symbol: g_slice_alloc0
    CB> dpkg: error processing gnomemeeting (--remove):
    CB>   subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
    CB> Errors were encountered while processing:
    CB>   gnomemeeting
    CB> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    CB> Not sure whether or not Dapper is now fully installed. Anyone have any
    CB> suggestions as to how to proceed?

I had a problem something like that and I waited until the next
morning and ran "apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade" and it worked
fine.

I'm not saying this is the virtuous thing to do; I'm just saying it
worked for me.

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