dpkg aborts
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dpkg (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Oneiric dpkg aborts.
Since Precise dpkg does not I guess the simplest fix is to just import the new version
Setting up libx11-doc (2:1.4.
dpkg: ../../src/
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
dpkg: ../../src/
Aborted
Press return to continue.
^C
root@iscsi:~# dpkg --pending --configure
dpkg: ../../src/
Aborted
root@iscsi:~# aptitude install -t precise dpkg
The following packages will be upgraded:
dpkg
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
wine1.3 wine1.4 wine1.4-amd64 wine1.4-i386
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1354 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,829 kB of archives. After unpacking 534 kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Get: 1 http://
Fetched 1,829 kB in 3s (494 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 248413 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dpkg 1.16.0.3ubuntu5 (using .../dpkg_
Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dpkg (1.16.1.2ubuntu5) ...
Setting up wine1.4 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
procps stop/waiting
Setting up wine1.4-amd64 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up wine1.3 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up wine1.4-i386:i386 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-server x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 17 12:07:04 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
You fixed the problem a bit too quickly... now tell me how can I reproduce it?
You should have made a backup of all the important files in /var/lib/dpkg/ (at least status, possibly the content of the updates directory too, if not empty) when you were encountering the problem.