A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

[calou]

Binary package hint: update-manager

'E:The package virtualbox needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.'

[Xeno Campanoli (xeno)]

Please provide steps to reproduce this if you can:

1. Please say the distribution you are using, and say anything special you might have been doing before this occurred.
2. Please provide specific steps with which this repeatedly occurs for you so others can try to reproduce the problem.

Thank you for your assistance.

[calou (calou)]

Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> Please provide steps to reproduce this if you can:
>
> 1. Please say the distribution you are using, and say anything special you might have been doing before this occurred.
> 2. Please provide specific steps with which this repeatedly occurs for you so others can try to reproduce the problem.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
>
I am using Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn), I downloaded
virtualbox_1.4.0.Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb and attempted to install it and
it seemed to "hang", I canceled the installation then tried to start the
installation again and began getting the error message. I panicked and
removed the any files I could find related to virtualbox and tried to
download virtualbox_1.4.0.Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb and tried to reload it
but couldn't get passed the error. Went to the terminal and tried to
use dpkg -r command to clean things up and got the message
> "The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during
> installation. They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages
> that depend on them) to function properly:
> virtualbox "

used dpkg -C and got the message

 "dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox"

I'm a newbee to Linux and am afraid I've really screwed something up
bad, I really can't seem to reinstall the software (virtualbox); I can't
even get the download package to download. Please help, is there anyway
to "reset" the package manager?

[calou (calou)]

Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> Please provide steps to reproduce this if you can:
>
> 1. Please say the distribution you are using, and say anything special you might have been doing before this occurred.
> 2. Please provide specific steps with which this repeatedly occurs for you so others can try to reproduce the problem.
>
> Thank you for your assistance.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
>
I am using Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn), I downloaded
virtualbox_1.4.0.Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb and attempted to install it and
it seemed to "hang", I canceled the installation then tried to start the
installation again and began getting the error message. I panicked and
removed the any files I could find related to virtualbox and tried to
download virtualbox_1.4.0.Ubuntu_feisty_i386.deb and tried to reload it
but couldn't get passed the error.

 Went to the terminal and tried to use dpkg -r command to clean things
up and got the message:

 "The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during
 installation. They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages
 that depend on them) to function properly:
  virtualbox "

used dpkg -C and got the message

 "dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--remove):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox"

I'm a newbee to Linux and am afraid I've really screwed something up
bad, I really can't seem to reinstall the software (virtualbox); I can't
even get the download package to download. Please help, is there anyway
to "reset" the package manager?

[Justin Payne (neolithium82)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #117377 and is being marked as such. Please feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Regards,
Justin

[calou (calou)]

Justin Payne wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 117377 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117377
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate
> of bug #117377 and is being marked as such. Please feel free to continue
> to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> Regards,
> Justin
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 117377
> Package installation crashed update-manager
>
>
Thanks for the reply, I checked for dups but didn't see this one.

Regards

Lou

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]