Hi! On Sat, 2015-01-10 at 22:42:56 +0000, Chris Carr wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.17.23
> 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 To be honest, I've just skimmed over that URL, because the issue here seems quite confused, with many broken parts. But this does not seem to me to be a problem in dpkg itself. > 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. Please run «dpkg -D77777 --configure -a 2>&1 | tee dpkg.log», and attach the output. We can check from there > 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. Hmm, if you are on an emergency shell, I guess the system is not properly booted, are all partitions mounted? Otherwise there's no wonder things are not being configured correctly. If that's the case, then this is probably a problem with your init system or thereabouts. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
