7.10 to 8.04 Upgrade dependency issues

[tsnj]

Suggestions?

From Kubuntu 7.10, Internet upgrade.
First upgraded via adept but afterward tried the following:

apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade

Result:

Setting up hal (0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu7) ...
* Reloading system message bus config... [ OK ]
* Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald invoke-rc.d: initscript hal, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing hal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-device-manager:
gnome-device-manager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-device-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal-cups-utils:
hal-cups-utils depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hal-cups-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-common:
hwdb-client-common depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hwdb-client-kde:
hwdb-client-kde depends on hwdb-client-common; however:
Package hwdb-client-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing hwdb-client-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-guidance-powermanager:
kde-guidance-powermanager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-guidance-powermanager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde-hal-device-manager:
kde-hal-device-manager depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde-hal-device-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kubuntu-desktop:
kubuntu-desktop depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kubuntu-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kubuntu-kde4-desktop:
kubuntu-kde4-desktop depends on hal; however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kubuntu-kde4-desktop (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager:
network-manager depends on hal (>= 0.5.7.1); however:
Package hal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-kde:
network-manager-kde depends on network-manager (>= 0.6.2); however:
Package network-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of system-config-printer-kde:
system-config-printer-kde depends on hal-cups-utils; however:
Package hal-cups-utils is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing system-config-printer-kde (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Errors were encountered while processing:
hal
gnome-device-manager
hal-cups-utils
hwdb-client-common
hwdb-client-kde
kde-guidance-powermanager
kde-hal-device-manager
kubuntu-desktop
kubuntu-kde4-desktop
network-manager
network-manager-kde
system-config-printer-kde
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Pumalite]

sudo dpkg --configure -a
swudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[tsnj]

sudo dpkg --configure -a
swudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Thanks. I tried your suggestion but got the exact same result.