E: dpkg was interrupted, you...

[BWT Ranch]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 4 22:26:23 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/jim
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux jim-desktop 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Dennis Dirdjaja (dcd-ditsch)]

Thank you for your bug report. To verify this bug, we need a bit more information. Could you please explain what you were doing when the error message appears? Did you execute the command advised in the message (sudo dpkg --configure -a) and did it solve the problem?

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

There may be some other problem which caused the dpkg run to stop, but it is also possible that that was due to user request.

However in any case apt's handling of the resulting state is poor. This has been like this for some time and is unlikely to be fixed soon.

If the submitter's response to your questions suggests a bug in some other program then a new task should be opened for that (`also affects distribution ... Ubuntu ... some package' in Launchpad).

[Dennis Dirdjaja (dcd-ditsch)]

I am closing this bug as there has been no further information by the reporter.

BWT Ranch, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.