Cairo problem running gnome-desktop in oneric

When I upgraded to Oneric Ocelot it had a problem with "cheese" and when I rebooted, I was stuck at the "Checking battery state..." point. I tried all of the (reasonable) solutions I could find and eventually resorted to installing KDE instead of Gnome. I hate KDE but when I try to install gnome, I get the following errors:
 Errors were encountered while processing:
 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0
 libmx-1.0-2
 libcheese-gtk20
 cheese
 gnome
 gnome-desktop-environment
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

My next step:
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 (0.1.4-2) ...
clutter-scan-immodules: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo-gobject.so.2: undefined symbol: cairo_device_destroy
dpkg: error processing libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

I also got the following error when trying to run firefox in KDE:
/usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/liboxygen-gtk.so: undefined symbol: cairo_surface_create_for_rectangle

My next step is to reinstall the cairo-gobject library:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libcairo-gobject2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 20.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libcairo-gobject2 amd64 1.10.2-6ubuntu3 [20.7 kB]
Fetched 20.7 kB in 0s (30.4 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 389829 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libcairo-gobject2 1.10.2-6ubuntu3 (using .../libcairo-gobject2_1.10.2-6ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libcairo-gobject2 ...
Setting up libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 (0.1.4-2) ...
clutter-scan-immodules: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcairo-gobject.so.2: undefined symbol: cairo_device_destroy
dpkg: error processing libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

Any suggestions ? - I just want to get Gnome Desktop back !