I had the same issue with different packages (namely texlive-related
packages) during a distribution update from 16.10 to 17.04, resulting in
an incomplete upgrade. After a couple hours of trying to fix the issues,
I finally suspected Sophos, and disabling/enabling on-access scanning
worked around
Workaround:
I've found it is not necessary to uninstall Sophos Anti-virus, just disabling
the on-access scanning is enough:
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl disable
apt-get upgrade
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl enable
and re-enable it afterwards, so you still have the AV protection the rest of
the time.
Workaround:
I've found it is not necessary to uninstall Sophos Anti-virus, just disabling
the on-access scanning is enough:
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl disable
apt-get upgrade
/opt/sophos-av/bin/savdctl enable
and re-enable it afterwards, so you still have the AV protection the rest of
the time.
@Alan et al,
Just to confirm that had exactly the same problem, and had Sophos Ant-virus
installed and running. I uninstalled SophosAV, and the process of upgrading
LibreOffice --stuck at the Libreoffice-common-- worked perfectly.
This time the error was in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Many thanks.
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Bug appears to be related to Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV). I removed SAV, and
apt-get -f install completed OK. Terminal output below.
SAV was using fanotify for on-access detection.
Caveats:
1. I have two machines affected by this, I've only tried this on one so far.
2. This is not a simple causal rel
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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