Bug#669878: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon-backend-vlc'

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

This exact bug also happen when trying to upgrade a chroot with a full
and unmodified squeeze desktop to wheezy.  From the test log:

  [...]
  Get:1975 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main python-gdata all 2.0.17+dfsg-1 [517 kB]
  Get:1976 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main python-magic amd64 5.11-2 [38.3 kB]
  Get:1977 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main unoconv all 0.5-1 [54.6 kB]
  Get:1978 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main xbrlapi amd64 4.4-5 [152 kB]
  Fetched 2723 MB in 4min 11s (10.8 MB/s)
  E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon-backend-vlc'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
  + cleanup_all
  [...]

Full log is available from
<URL: http://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_squeeze_install_full_desktop_upgrade_to_wheezy/lastBuild/console >.

Searching for "Could not perform immediate configuration on
'phonon-backend-vlc'" on the web show several users see the same
problem.  I even found a Ubuntu bug report from February detecting the
same issue, <URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/911659 >, but it
apparently went away without anyone knowing why.

Perhaps this bug is in apt, given that some reports that it help to
upgrade apt first?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen