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Re: Upate failure



On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:37:44PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote:
> 
> Johannes, when I log in as root via tty1 and run aptitude  I get the output
> pasted below.
> 
> Here is the output copied from aptitude"
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-
> image-2.6.18-5-amd64_2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
> 

this is all it says? please give us the *complete* output from the
command you've entered to the very end. and do it from the command
line interface, not the aptitude gui. IOW, just type

aptitude install <package> 

or 

aptitude upgrade

or whatever it is you are trying to do.

thanks

A

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