This problem has stopped me from installing software for sometime. I decided to upgrade 12.04. but the message "libxml2: could not be configured" appeared during the upgrade. Now because of this no updates including security updates are installing making the system vulnerable.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7 [modified: usr/share/doc/libxml2/changelog.Debian.gz]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-51.77~precise1-generic 3.5.7.33
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-51-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
AptOrdering:
libxml2: Configure
libxml2: Configure
python-libxml2: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 29 18:47:14 2014
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
# For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
canonical-oem-somerville-precise-amd64-20130203-1
DuplicateSignature: package:libxml2:2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7 [modified: usr/share/doc/libxml2/changelog.Debian.gz]:libxml2:amd64 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7 cannot be configured because libxml2
ErrorMessage: libxml2:amd64 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7 cannot be configured because libxml2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20130203-13:50
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libxml2
Title: package libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7 [modified: usr/share/doc/libxml2/changelog.Debian.gz] failed to install/upgrade: libxml2:amd64 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.7 cannot be configured because libxml2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.