It is almost certainly trying to upgrade dpkg on top of itself while running. The instructions at
http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-package.en.html#s6.2.9 helped me. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Margaret Toews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Last week I did an apt-get upgrade on my 2.2.17 OS release which error-ed out with >"E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly". Since then Apache and Samba are >broken, and I can't uninstall or re-install anything using apt-get without getting >the same error. I re-installed Apache fresh and can probably do the same for Samba, >but I'm wondering what happened, if anyone else has had this experience, and what to >do differently. > > Thanks for any help. > > Margaret > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]