Re: dpkg won't install (Internal Error)

[Paul D. Smith]

I found something about this problem by searching old debian-devel
archives; I fixed it by force-installing debconf with dpkg, then
force-installing libc6 with dpkg, then using apt-get -f install to let
it fix the rest.  Seems to have worked.

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Re: dpkg won't install (Internal Error)

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Will Day wrote:

  # apt-get -s install php4-mysql mysql-server
  Inst libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 [base-config ]
  Inst libstdc++2.10-dev [base-config ]
  Inst g++ [base-config ]
  Inst libc6-dev [base-config ]
  Inst locales [base-config ]
  Inst libc6 [base-config ]
  E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
 
 If this is actually an error in one of the packages, rather than dpkg
 itself, it sure would be nice if it printed the package name it's having
 problems with!

 I installed a potato a few days ago, upgraded it to woody shortly
 thereafter, and was very impressed.  Today I installed another potato, and
 immediately tried to upgrade it to woody, and had a similar problem.  As

This is a odd interaction between libc6 and APT's sequencing code, there
is a bug against libc6 to get the issue fixed so that potato to woody
upgrades work again..

In the mean time there are a couple options.. Probably the simplest is to
do 'apt-get -s install libc6' then take all the packages listed as 'Inst'
and install them by hand using dpkg with a single command.

Or you could try the experimental 0.4.1 APT from 
http://klecker.debian.org/~jgg/apt

Or just wait for a new libc..

Jason

dpkg won't install (Internal Error)

[Paul D. Smith]

I have a vanilla potato system I just installed.  Now I'm trying to get
a few packages from woody.

I was able to download the packages, but they won't install and I don't
understand the error message:

 # apt-get install php4-mysql mysql-server
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree... Done
 The following extra packages will be installed:
   apache apache-common debconf g++ libapache-mod-perl libapache-mod-ssl libc6
   libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11
   libmysqlclient10 libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
   locales mysql-client mysql-common php4 zlib1g 
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
   debconf-tiny 
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   debconf libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11 libmysqlclient10
   libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 mysql-client mysql-common
   mysql-server php4 php4-mysql zlib1g 
 10 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 1 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
 Need to get 0B/14.2MB of archives. After unpacking 11.4MB will be used.
 Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
 E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration

This happened with the original dpkg in 2.2, so then I used apt-get
install dpkg to get the latest, but it still happens.

If I use -s, it does a bit more before failing:

 # apt-get -s install php4-mysql mysql-server
 Reading Package Lists... Done
 Building Dependency Tree... Done
 The following extra packages will be installed:
   apache apache-common debconf g++ libapache-mod-perl libapache-mod-ssl libc6
   libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11
   libmysqlclient10 libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
   locales mysql-client mysql-common php4 zlib1g 
 The following packages will be REMOVED:
   debconf-tiny 
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
   debconf libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11 libmysqlclient10
   libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 mysql-client mysql-common
   mysql-server php4 php4-mysql zlib1g 
 10 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 1 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
 Remv debconf-tiny [base-config ]
 Inst libdb2-util [base-config ]
 Inst libnss-db [base-config ]
 Inst libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 [base-config ]
 Inst libstdc++2.10-dev [base-config ]
 Inst g++ [base-config ]
 Inst libc6-dev [base-config ]
 Inst locales [base-config ]
 Inst libc6 [base-config ]
 E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration

If this is actually an error in one of the packages, rather than dpkg
itself, it sure would be nice if it printed the package name it's having
problems with!

Anyone have any thoughts?

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