[Freedombox-discuss] apt

[Dietmar]

Thanks, that was successful.
However, I had to restart the box to have unattended-upgrades run again.
Dis- and en-abling was not sufficient.

    Dietmar

Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2016, 17:34 -0400 schrieb James Valleroy:

> On 09/22/2016 02:26 PM, Dietmar wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I realized, my last unattended upgrade was on 8-Sept. So I went via
> > ssh into the box and tried aptitude which recommended me to do a "sudo
> > dpkg --configure -a", which brought up an error:
> >
> >> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> >> libapt-inst2.0:armhf (1.3~rc4) wird eingerichtet ...
> >> Trigger für libc-bin (2.23-5) werden verarbeitet ...
> >> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes apt (--configure):
> >>  Paket ist in einem sehr schlechten inkonsistenten Zustand - Sie sollten es
> >>  nochmal installieren, bevor Sie die Konfiguration versuchen.
> >> Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
> >>  apt
> > "apt is in a very bad shape, you should reinstall it bevor trying to
> > configure"
> > So I did an "apt update", which ran through, checked that there were a
> > couple of packages to upgrade, including apt from 1.3~rc2 to 1.3~rc4.
> > The "apt upgrade" produced again some errors:
> >> $ sudo apt upgrade
> >> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
> >> Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.       
> >> Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
> >> Probieren Sie »apt-get -f install«, um dies zu korrigieren.
> >> Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
> >> E: Unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten. Versuchen Sie, -f zu benutzen.
> > meaning "unfullfilled dependencies, try "-f". 
> > Before breaking my packages, is it save to use "force"?
> > Also, what might have caused this, just a bug in "apt"?
> >
> > I am running on testing.
> >
> 
> I think it's this issue mentioned in the changelog for apt:
> 
> * re-add apt breaks/replaces apt-utils (<< 1.3~exp2~) (Closes: #836220 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836220>)
> 
> I would try "apt-get -f install", and you may also need to do "apt-get
> install --reinstall apt".
> 
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