[PLUG] apt-get hangs. What next?

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Wed May 19 10:17:02 UTC 2004


The console-common package on my wife's Debian box is having troubles. 
What's the basic troubleshooting method to unstick a confused package?

[root at computadora root]# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   gs-gpl libgtk2.0-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
   console-common cvs discover discover-data gs gs-common gs-esp
   kernel-package libcomerr2 libdiscover2 libenchant1 libgsf-1
   libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libnewt0.51 libsensors3 libss2
   libtasn1-0 libtasn1-2 libuuid1 libxslt1.1 passwd python-newt rsync
   tasksel whiptail xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xfwm4
29 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.1MB of archives.
After unpacking 1571kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 137832 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.38 (using .../console-common_0.7.41_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb (--unpack):
  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 9
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
Preparing to replace libcomerr2 1.35-5 (using .../libcomerr2_1.35-6_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libcomerr2 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.41_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>




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