Conf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

[Nick Syrotiuk <syrotiuk@manchester.ac.uk>]

Hi everyone,

I just upgraded my Lenny system and encountered some problems.  Here are
two of the problems but there were others also:

1. Preparing to replace libempathy-gtk-common 0.23.3-2 (using
.../libempathy-gtk-common_0.23.3-3_all.deb) ...

(gconftool-2:5099): GConf-CRITICAL **: Failed to load file
"/var/lib/gconf/defaults/%gconf-tree-pt.xml": Error on line 890 char 72:
Element 'lobal_schema' was closed, but the currently open element is
'local_schema'

2. Errors were encountered while processing:
 epiphany-browser-data
 epiphany-gecko
 epiphany-browser
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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The last time I upgraded (successfully) was Nov 3rd.

Now, the ramifications of this unsuccessful upgrade were truly
horrendous.  Anybody know what's going on?

Best regards,
Nick

p.s. I upgraded the following packages:

 Reading package lists... 0%  Reading package lists... 100%  Reading
package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree... 0%  Building dependency tree... 0%
Building dependency tree... 50%  Building dependency tree... 50%
Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... 0%  Reading state information... 0%
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  at cdrkit-doc dhcdbd docbook-xml empathy eog epiphany-browser
  epiphany-browser-data epiphany-gecko evolution-data-server
  evolution-data-server-common gdm genisoimage gnome-session hal icedax
lame
  libcamel1.2-11 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2
  libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8
  libegroupwise1.2-13 libempathy-common libempathy-gtk-common
libempathy-gtk14
  libempathy14 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1
  libgif4 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgpm2
libgtk-vnc-1.0-0
  libhal-storage1 libhal1 libjinglebase0.3-0 libjinglep2p0.3-0
  libjinglexmllite0.3-0 libjinglexmpp0.3-0 libmp3lame0 libmysqlclient15off
  libsmbclient libvte-common libvte9 libwbclient0 mlocate mysql-common
  openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core
  openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
  openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-emailmerge
  openoffice.org-filter-binfilter openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev
  openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
  openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin
  openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal
  openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-writer python-uno python-vte
  samba-common smbclient swfdec-mozilla tasksel tasksel-data totem
  totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla totem-plugins totem-xine
  ttf-opensymbol wodim xml-core
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dpkg: error processing epiphany-browser-data (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of epiphany-gecko:
 epiphany-gecko depends on epiphany-browser-data (>= 2.22.1.1-3); however:
  Package epiphany-browser-data is not configured yet.
 epiphany-gecko depends on epiphany-browser-data (<< 2.23); however:
  Package epiphany-browser-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing epiphany-gecko (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of epiphany-browser:
 epiphany-browser depends on epiphany-gecko | epiphany-webkit; however:
  Package epiphany-gecko is not configured yet.
  Package epiphany-webkit is not installed.
dpkg: error processing epiphany-browser (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 epiphany-browser-data
 epiphany-gecko
 epiphany-browser
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
mozart:~# exit

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