Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.23
Hi,
I have been away from Debian development for over a year due to some RL
issues. I booted my Sid box and did apt-get update and then upgrade, and
everything went wrong. Full story (badly told) is at
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=119834
The issue I have now is that whenever I try to use apt-get I am told
"dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
correct the problem". Running this as root results in
Setting up cups-daemon (1.7.5-10) ...
Hangup
... without that package being configured, nor any others.
If this is not a bug in dpkg, please could someone tell me how to go
about diagnosing and correcting it? I need to be able to finish
installing and configuring the ~55 half-done packages so that I can get
my system working again. At the moment it doesn't boot properly and
drops me into emergency mode. I cannot run openssh-server or reportbug.
Thanks in advance for any help, and apologies for (mis)using the BTS in
desperation. Google tells me that nobody else has reported this set of
issues anywhere.
CC
