Re: problem with apt-get upgrade

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

It is almost certainly trying to upgrade dpkg on top of itself while
running.  The instructions at

http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9

helped me.

HTH,
  Jeffrey

Quoting Margaret Toews <fmtoews@southwind.net>:
> Last week I did an apt-get upgrade on my 2.2.17 OS release which error-ed out with "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly". Since then Apache and Samba are broken, and I can't uninstall or re-install anything using apt-get without getting the same error.  I re-installed Apache fresh and can probably do the same for Samba, but I'm wondering what happened, if anyone else has had this experience, and what to do differently.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Margaret
>