Bug#76306: apt: "Could not perform immediate configuration"

[peter@softwolves.pp.se]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal

This is not good:

# apt-get install gnome-session
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  g++ gnome-bin gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-panel-data libart-dev libart2
  libc6 libc6-dev libc6-pic libcapplet0 libdb2 libdb2-dev libdb2-util libesd0 libesd0-dev
  libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgnome-dev libgnome32 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba-dev
  libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtkxmhtml1 libnss-db libpanel-applet0 libstdc++2.10-dev
  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libungif4g locales
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdb2-dev libdb2-util libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libnss-db libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 libungif4g
27 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 91 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/16.1MB of archives. After unpacking 16.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux perkele 2.2.17 #2 sön okt 22 22:12:05 CEST 2000 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.3-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libstdc++2.10  2.95.2-14      The GNU stdc++ library