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Re: aptitude update crashes (fwd)



On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:51:33AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
> 
> 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)

here is your problem, maybe try /etc/init/udev restart and see if you
can fix the problem, if not maybe put exit 0 on the 2nd line of the init
and re run aptitude.


> 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
> 
> 

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