package manager broken

[Paul Tremblay]

On 05/30/13 12:36, staticsafe wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:31:49PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
>> On 05/30/13 12:20, Tom H wrote:
>>> cd ; grep -E 'LANG|LC' .bash_login .bash_profile .bashrc .profile 2>/dev/null
>>  From the first command:
>>
>> default/locale:LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>> default/locale:LANGUAGE="en_US:"
>>
>> The second command returned nothing.
>>
>> -- 
>> Paul Tremblay
>> ICQA Program Developer
>>
>>
> Can you try?
>
> # sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
> Select en_US.UTF-8 and select ok.
> Try your apt-get operation again.
>

I don't get the ability to select any language when I run sudo 
dpkg-reconfigure locales. I get this output:

  de_AT.UTF-8... up-to-date
   de_BE.UTF-8... up-to-date
   de_CH.UTF-8... up-to-date
....
*snip*
Generation complete

  sudo apt-get -f install

gives this message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   language-pack-kde-nl-base language-pack-kde-de-base kde-l10n-de 
kde-l10n-ga kde-l10n-es kde-l10n-fr kde-l10n-nl kde-l10n-pl
   linux-headers-3.2.0-35 linux-headers-3.2.0-36 linux-headers-3.2.0-37 
linux-headers-3.2.0-38 language-pack-kde-fr-base
   linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic language-pack-kde-es-base 
language-pack-kde-ga-base linux-headers-3.2.0-35-generic
   language-pack-kde-de language-pack-kde-ga language-pack-kde-en 
language-pack-kde-es language-pack-kde-fr language-pack-kde-nl
   language-pack-kde-pl kde-l10n-engb linux-headers-3.2.0-38-generic 
language-pack-kde-en-base language-pack-kde-pl-base
   linux-headers-3.2.0-36-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
   mysql-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
   mysql-server
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/11.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
  mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) breaks mysql-server (<< 
5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) and is installed.
   Version of mysql-server to be configured is 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a 
followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mysql-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- 
Paul Tremblay
ICQA Program Developer