strange apt-get upgrade issue
Hi!
Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what
I've seen it seems like it's the correct place.
I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our production boxes:
xxxxxx:~# apt-get update
[this works fine]
xxxxxx:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed
locales: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
xxxxxx:~# apt-get -f upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1901kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where
someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away".
Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it
works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work.
for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and the
second or third time it will just work.
It's still a potato system.
Any help at all appreciated.
Regards,
Chris.
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