[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#524602: acpid: Upgrade not possible: ...package inconsistent...

[James Utter]

I'm having the same problem, and it causes some severe effects -
without acpid installed in a consistent state, the wacom touchpad and
wifi on my laptop no longer work.

(Reading database ... 233334 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace acpid 1.0.8-6 (using .../acpid_1.0.8-7_amd64.deb) ...
 * Stopping ACPI services...                                             [ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
 * Stopping ACPI services...                                             [ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1.0.8-7_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 * Starting ACPI services...                                             [ OK ]
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1.0.8-7_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid