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Re: problem with apt-get upgrade



On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 04:02:42PM -0600, Margaret Toews wrote:
> 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".

That's essentially a summary which means "An error has occurred. See
above for the details".

> 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.

What does 'dpkg --configure -a' do (in full)?

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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