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After a failed LTS upgrade from Lucid to Precise, I'm stuck in package limbo. As root I have run

dpkg --configure -a
apt-get -f install

Outputs appended below.

The default package archive at this point contains packages for Precise. What should I do to get past this?

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In response to:   dpkg --configure -a

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-video-vmware:
 xserver-xorg-video-vmware depends on libxatracker1; however:
  Package libxatracker1 is not installed.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-video-intel:
 xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on libxcb-dri2-0; however:
  Package libxcb-dri2-0 is not installed.
 xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on libxcb-util0 (>= 0.3.8); however:
  Package libxcb-util0 is not installed.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xorg-video-vmware
 xserver-xorg-video-intel

In response to:   apt-get -f install

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gvfs-bin: Depends: gvfs (= 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1) but 1.12.1-0ubuntu1 is installed
  gvfs-fuse: Depends: libgvfscommon0 (>= 1.1.7) but it is not installable
         Depends: gvfs (= 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1) but 1.12.1-0ubuntu1 is installed
  initramfs-tools: Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (= 0.92bubuntu78) but 0.99ubuntu13 is installed
  libglib2.0-0-dbg: Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.24.1-0ubuntu1) but 2.32.3-0ubuntu1 is installed
  libglib2.0-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.24.1-0ubuntu1) but 2.32.3-0ubuntu1 is installed
  libnih1: Depends: libc6 (< 2.12) but 2.15-0ubuntu10 is installed
  plymouth: Depends: libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~) but it is not installable
  python-louis: Depends: liblouis0 (>= 1.7.0-2) but it is not installable
  xserver-xorg-video-all: Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nv but it is not installable
                      Depends: xserver-xorg-video-v4l but it is not installable
  xserver-xorg-video-intel: Depends: libxcb-dri2-0 but it is not installed
                        Depends: libxcb-util0 (>= 0.3.8) but it is not installed
  xserver-xorg-video-vmware: Depends: libxatracker1 but it is not installed

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Kept fussing with it. – William F. Hammond Sep 2 '12 at 23:26
Decided to use dpkg -i on the .debs in /var/cache/apt/archive for libxatracker1, libxcb-dri2-0, and libxcb-util0. This succeeded. – William F. Hammond Sep 2 '12 at 23:29
Then "apt-get update" (which did find new things), "dkpg --configure -a", and "apt-get -f install" broke the log jam. So I could get then get quite a bit farther with "apt-get dist-upgrade", to the point where the system booted normally apart from bringing up X11 and some form of desktop. New issue to follow. – William F. Hammond Sep 2 '12 at 23:33
BTW, there were dependency issues with gvfs to work around. – William F. Hammond Sep 2 '12 at 23:35
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You should probably add your solution as answer, so that other see this is solved and can try it if they have the same problem. – jP_wanN Sep 4 '12 at 17:04
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why not try 

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

dpkg --configure -a

apt-get -f install package name here
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