Re: Problems when Update/upgrade testing with apt/aptitude

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:03:20 -0700, troppero wrote:
> 
> Hello! 
> 
> A few days ago, I made an Update/Upgrade with Synaptic. All goes good
> until when debconf doing configuring menu (or actualize the menu
> triggers) it stays for ever.  I Ctrl-C'ed to finish.
> 
> Now, I will run apt or aptitude and it shows an error:
> 
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
> 
> I run it as shows here:
> 
> [javier@segundo] dpkg --configure -a
> Configurando menu (2.1.41) ...
> Procesando disparadores para menu ...
> accersicer
> adduser
> .... snipped to make it short .....
> libz-dev
> zlibz-dev
> ^Cdpkg: el subproceso post-installation script fue terminado por la señal (Interrupción)
> [javier@segundo]
> 
> I finish it three hours later with Ctrl-C. I see that is a problem
> with menu package as I run update-menus I get the same hang.

Try to run

update-menus -v

to see which file causes the problem. 

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