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Thanks, that was successful.<BR>
However, I had to restart the box to have unattended-upgrades run again. Dis- and en-abling was not sufficient.<BR>
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Dietmar<BR>
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Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2016, 17:34 -0400 schrieb James Valleroy:
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On 09/22/2016 02:26 PM, Dietmar wrote:
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> I realized, my last unattended upgrade was on 8-Sept. So I went via</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> ssh into the box and tried aptitude which recommended me to do a "sudo</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> dpkg --configure -a", which brought up an error:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> $ sudo dpkg --configure -a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> libapt-inst2.0:armhf (1.3~rc4) wird eingerichtet ...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Trigger für libc-bin (2.23-5) werden verarbeitet ...</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes apt (--configure):</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Paket ist in einem sehr schlechten inkonsistenten Zustand - Sie sollten es</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> nochmal installieren, bevor Sie die Konfiguration versuchen.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> apt</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> "apt is in a very bad shape, you should reinstall it bevor trying to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> configure"</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> So I did an "apt update", which ran through, checked that there were a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> couple of packages to upgrade, including apt from 1.3~rc2 to 1.3~rc4.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> The "apt upgrade" produced again some errors:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> $ sudo apt upgrade</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Probieren Sie »apt-get -f install«, um dies zu korrigieren.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">>> E: Unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten. Versuchen Sie, -f zu benutzen.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> meaning "unfullfilled dependencies, try "-f". </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Before breaking my packages, is it save to use "force"?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Also, what might have caused this, just a bug in "apt"?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">> I am running on testing.</FONT>
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I think it's this issue mentioned in the changelog for apt:
* re-add apt breaks/replaces apt-utils (<< 1.3~exp2~) (Closes: #836220 <<A HREF="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836220">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836220</A>>)
I would try "apt-get -f install", and you may also need to do "apt-get
install --reinstall apt".
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