Error: BrokenCount > 0

[ShirishAg75]

Hi all,
Sorry in advance because this is going to be a long post.

I had errors in my filesystem today. Hence put up a live CD and ran fsck on that partition.

$ sudo fsck -y /dev/sdb5

It took some time and removed some stuff but was able to log in.

Now I'm stuck with a particular issue. My update-manager shows Error: BrokenCount > 0

Looking at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto

I tried


$ sudo apt-get check

and got



Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-app-install: Depends: but it is not installed
Depends: but it is not installed
onboard: Depends: but it is not installed
penguintv: Depends: but it is not installed
python-gnome2: Depends: but it is not installed
update-manager: Depends: but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.


Then tried both synaptic as well as the CLI and here's the output of the same :-



~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:

Suggested packages:
python-gconf-dbg python-gnome2-extras-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:

0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/99.9kB of archives.
After this operation, 406kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 227, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 48, in main
debs = apt_listchanges.read_apt_pipeline(config)
File "/usr/share/apt-listchanges/apt_listchanges.py", line 64, in read_apt_pipeline
(pkgname, oldversion, compare, newversion, filename) = pkgline.split()
ValueError: need more than 4 values to unpack


(Reading database ... 127778 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace python-gconf 2.22.3-0ubuntu1 (using .../_2.22.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-gconf ...
Preparing to replace python-gtkhtml2 2.19.1-0ubuntu11 (using .../_2.19.1-0ubuntu11_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python-gtkhtml2 ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Package listed more than once, only processing once.
dpkg: error processing (--configure):
no package named `' is installed, cannot configure
Errors were encountered while processing:

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Now can somebody tell me how can I fix this?

[ShirishAg75]

bumping it up for answers :(