Since safe-upgrade.........

[ariestao@skymesh.com.au]

System: Debian Linux testing 3.2.0-2-686-pae on Acer 3614WLC laptop

Did aptitude safe-upgrade with aptitude yesterday and there are a heap 
of errors like:

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up fontconfig-config (2.9.0-3) ...
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/': Directory not 
empty
dpkg: error processing fontconfig-config (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fontconfig:
 fontconfig depends on fontconfig-config; however:
  Package fontconfig-config is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fontconfig (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libqtgui4:i386:
 libqtgui4:i386 depends on fontconfig; however:
  Package fontconfig is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libqtgui4:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of 
libqt4-declarative:i386:
 libqt4-declarative:i386 depends on libqtgui4 (= 4:4.8.1-1); however:
  Package libqtgui4:i386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libqt4-declarative:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Ending with:

Errors were encountered while processing:

And a whole list of packages (about 40) running down to the end:

Current status: 1 update [-15].

Can anyone shed some light on this?

TIA
Charlie