Re: aptitude update crashes (fwd)

[Don Montgomery <donm@methodbydesign.com>]

Hello,

I am running an older dual-opteron box with

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.25-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.25-7) 
(maks@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) 
(Debian 4.1.2-23)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2008

I have been getting a "2 not fully installed or removed" 
message from apt-get for over a week now, with respect to 
udev and usbmount.  I tried

apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
apt-get upgrade

and got:

[snip]
Setting up udev (146-5) ...
error getting signalfd
Cannot start udevd. (rc=5)
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 5
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
 usbmount depends on udev; however:
  Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing usbmount (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up gnome-themes (2.28.1-1) ...
Setting up libexif12 (0.6.18-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 udev
 usbmount
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any idea what is going on?  How to fix it?

Thanks, Don