When attempting to do the security updates yesterday (Jan 8, 2010), I am now experiencing this error. I tried purging xulrunner-1.9.1, then getting back the packages I need (using update manager to get desktop- couch back and apt-get install firefox to get the rest back, but I'm still getting the same errors.)
sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9.1 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: xulrunner-1.9.1 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 15 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/9,102kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 238918 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1 (using .../xulrunner-1.9.1_1.9.1.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xulrunner-1.9.1 ... /rm/rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.6/python/xpcom/__init__.pyo': No such file or directory dpkg: warning: old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /rm/rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.7/python/xpcom/__init__.pyo': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xulrunner-1.9.1_1.9.1.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /rm/rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1.7/python/xpcom/__init__.pyo': No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xulrunner-1.9.1_1.9.1.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is pretty annoying because I am unable to use Firefox on Ubuntu now. ** Changed in: xulrunner-1.9.1 (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- Can't uninstall/remove xulrunner-1.9.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367354 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs