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
> 


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