Re: locked out of postfix install
solved see other thread
On 16 July 2016 at 15:17, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> dpkg seems to be totally broken :-
>
> ~~~~
> $ sudo apt-get install node
> [sudo] password for aaronngray:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> exim4-base : Depends: exim4-config (>= 4.82) but it is not going to
> be installed or
> exim4-config-2
> Recommends: mailx
> node : Depends: ax25-node but it is not going to be installed
> Conflicts: nodejs-legacy
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ apt-get -f install
> E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
> E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> gyp libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libjs-node-uuid libjs-underscore liblockfile1
> libv8-3.14-dev libv8-3.14.5 node-abbrev node-ansi node-ansi-color-table
> node-archy node-async node-block-stream node-combined-stream node-cookie-jar
> node-delayed-stream node-forever-agent node-form-data node-fstream
> node-fstream-ignore node-github-url-from-git node-glob node-graceful-fs
> node-gyp node-inherits node-ini node-json-stringify-safe node-lockfile
> node-lru-cache node-mime node-minimatch node-mkdirp node-mute-stream
> node-node-uuid node-nopt node-normalize-package-data node-npmlog node-once
> node-osenv node-qs node-read node-read-package-json node-request node-retry
> node-rimraf node-semver node-sha node-sigmund node-slide node-tar
> node-tunnel-agent node-underscore node-which
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> exim4-config
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> postfix
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> exim4-config
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/501 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 1,129 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: error processing package postfix (--remove):
> package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
> reinstall it before attempting a removal
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> postfix
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install postfix
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> exim4-base : Depends: exim4-config (>= 4.82) but it is not going to
> be installed or
> exim4-config-2
> Recommends: mailx
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install exim4-config
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> exim4-config : Conflicts: postfix but 2.11.3-1 is to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
> gyp libc-ares-dev libc-ares2 libjs-node-uuid libjs-underscore liblockfile1
> libv8-3.14-dev libv8-3.14.5 node-abbrev node-ansi node-ansi-color-table
> node-archy node-async node-block-stream node-combined-stream node-cookie-jar
> node-delayed-stream node-forever-agent node-form-data node-fstream
> node-fstream-ignore node-github-url-from-git node-glob node-graceful-fs
> node-gyp node-inherits node-ini node-json-stringify-safe node-lockfile
> node-lru-cache node-mime node-minimatch node-mkdirp node-mute-stream
> node-node-uuid node-nopt node-normalize-package-data node-npmlog node-once
> node-osenv node-qs node-read node-read-package-json node-request node-retry
> node-rimraf node-semver node-sha node-sigmund node-slide node-tar
> node-tunnel-agent node-underscore node-which
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> exim4-config
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> postfix
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> exim4-config
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/501 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 1,129 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: error processing package postfix (--remove):
> package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
> reinstall it before attempting a removal
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> postfix
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get -f reinstall postfix
> E: Command line option 'f' [from -f] is not known.
> aaronngray@aarongray:/etc/apt$ sudo apt-get reinstall postfix
> E: Invalid operation reinstall
> ~~~~
>
> Is there anyway to fix this ? or am I better doing a reinstall ?
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On 16 July 2016 at 11:46, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a relatively fresh install of Debian 8
>>
>> I did a
>>
>> sudo apt-get install postfix
>>
>> The treminal then came up with a page with instructions and an <OK>
>> button, I then left this while I was waiting for my DNS change to
>> resolve which took several hours. When I went back to the terminal it
>> was frozen. I tried ctrl-D,C, and Z. I then had to kill the terminal
>> with the close button.
>>
>> Then I found dpkg still running and had to kill that as apt-get would
>> no longer run.
>>
>> Hears my sources.list file, not sure thats relevant or will help ?
>>
>> ~~~ /etc/apt/sources.list ~~~
>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD
>> Binary-1 20160123-19:03]/ jessie contrib main
>>
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD
>> Binary-1 20160123-19:03]/ jessie contrib main
>>
>> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
>> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
>>
>> deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
>> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
>>
>> # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
>> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
>> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
>> ~~~
>>
>> Hope you can help ! I would rather not do a fresh install if it can be avoided.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Aaron
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