Re: strange apt-get upgrade issue
Hi,
What does your /etc/apt/sources.list say?
Mike
Quoting Chris McCormick <chris@perthweb.com.au>:
> 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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