Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:43 + Robin Wilson ro...@rtwilson.com wrote: I have been trying to upgrade packages on my Debian installation using apt-get upgrade. When I ran that the first time it downloaded all of the packages and installed a number of them, before crashing saying that dpkg returned an error code (1). Whenever I try and run apt-get upgrade again I get the following message: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: mplayer 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 231 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,012 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? It says that 231 packages are not fully installed or removed, which suggests to me that the upgrade process failed half way through. The thing is - I can't find out how to get it to restart again, and how to install/remove the 231 packages that need dealing with? All of my google searches are turning up forum posts that are either very old, or don't help at all. Any ideas how I can get this upgrade properly done? personally I use aptitude update, followed by aptitude safe-upgrade as aptitude seems to do a better job of tracking dependencies but I am aware that using apt-get is now the default way. Did it not continue when you replied 'Y, enter'?? You could try 'apt-get remove mplayer' then 'apt-get upgrade' again in case it is that package blocking things, You can always re-install mplayer or get an alternative, I use vlc or guayadeque. -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian
Hi Robin, On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, Robin Wilson wrote: The following packages will be upgraded: mplayer 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 231 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,012 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? It says that 231 packages are not fully installed or removed, which suggests to me that the upgrade process failed half way through. The thing is - I can't find out how to get it to restart again, and how to install/remove the 231 packages that need dealing with? All of my google searches are turning up forum posts that are either very old, or don't help at all. It normally carries on to complete the outstanding actions after it does the upgrade of mplayer. Does it not do that for you? Can you post the full output after you say Y to the above? apt-get dist-upgrade may be necessary, but show us what happens with the above first.. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian
On Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:14:43 +, ro...@rtwilson.com said: my Debian installation What are the contents of: /etc/debian_version and /etc/apt/sources.list Do you have any files in /etc/apt/sources.d? If so, what are their contents? -- You can have everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want - Zig Ziglar. Who did you help today? -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, Robin Wilson wrote: I have been trying to upgrade packages on my Debian installation using apt-get upgrade. When I ran that the first time it downloaded all of the packages and installed a number of them, before crashing saying that dpkg returned an error code (1). Don't suppose you remember anything else after this? Whenever I try and run apt-get upgrade again I get the following message: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: mplayer 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 231 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,012 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? What happens when you hit enter? I'd try: apt-get -f install first of all. -f is for --fix-broken which can help in some circumstances. Other things you could try: apt-get dist-upgrade (rather than just plain upgrade) aptitude dist-upgrade (since aptitude uses a slightly different algorithm) But I suspect apt-get -f install will get you further down the path. There's probably something dodgy somewhere which caused the original upgrade to bomb out so it'll be interesting to see what error you do end up with. Let us know how you get on. Simon -- ... Mithrandir An acronym that sticks to your brain like butter to teflon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Error with apt-get upgrade on Debian
Hi everyone, Thanks for all the prompt help. I followed one of the previous bits of advice by running apt-get remove mplayer I can only assume that mplayer was causing the problem, as once this was removed the rest of the packages were processed properly. I have now reinstalled mplayer and it seems to be fine. Not sure why it happened - but thanks for the help, Robin On 6 Nov 2011, at 14:36, Simon Huggins wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 02:14:43PM +, Robin Wilson wrote: I have been trying to upgrade packages on my Debian installation using apt-get upgrade. When I ran that the first time it downloaded all of the packages and installed a number of them, before crashing saying that dpkg returned an error code (1). Don't suppose you remember anything else after this? Whenever I try and run apt-get upgrade again I get the following message: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: mplayer 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 231 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,280 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,012 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? What happens when you hit enter? I'd try: apt-get -f install first of all. -f is for --fix-broken which can help in some circumstances. Other things you could try: apt-get dist-upgrade (rather than just plain upgrade) aptitude dist-upgrade (since aptitude uses a slightly different algorithm) But I suspect apt-get -f install will get you further down the path. There's probably something dodgy somewhere which caused the original upgrade to bomb out so it'll be interesting to see what error you do end up with. Let us know how you get on. Simon -- ... Mithrandir An acronym that sticks to your brain like butter to teflon -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
