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[Paul Carter <pauleg.carter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
>

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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')

Status in ubuntu-docs package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This package install may have failed previously and was raised during
  another apt-get install.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: ubuntu-docs 15.04.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-21.21-generic 3.19.8
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-21-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Jun 19 12:03:57 2015
  DuplicateSignature: package:ubuntu-docs:15.04.2:package ubuntu-docs is not ready for configuration  cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
  ErrorMessage: package ubuntu-docs is not ready for configuration  cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-15 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release i386 (20141022.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1
   apt  1.0.9.7ubuntu4
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs
  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')
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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