RE: Apt-get behaving badly
> The error message you quote is really just a summary message, and
> doesn't give enough information to work out what might be wrong. Were
> there any error messages before that?
No. Here is a transcript of what just happened when running apt-get
upgrade:
nysus:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
abiword analog base-config dpkg gdk-imlib1 gdm gimp1.2 gmc gnome-applets
gnome-bin
gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
gnome-session
gnome-utils initrd-tools kcalc kdelibs3 libcapplet0 libgconf11
libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2
libgdk-pixbuf2 libgimp1.2 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome-vfs0
libgnomeui32 libgtk1.2
libgtkxmhtml1 libscrollkeeper0 mc-common python2.1 sawfish sawmill
scrollkeeper
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/880kB of archives. After unpacking 799kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 29597 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace textutils 2.0-13 (using .../textutils_2.1-1_i386.deb)
...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
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