[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-21 Thread Andreas Hasenack
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1679435 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1679435 I'll mark this bug as a duplicate of bug #1679435 given this opening statement: "2. Trying to install Screaming frog I noticed installation stalled (download was OK)" That is a signature of #1679435

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-21 Thread Andreas Hasenack
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1679435 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1679435 I'll mark this bug as a duplicate of bug #1679435 given this opening statement: "2. Trying to install Screaming frog I noticed installation stalled (download was OK)" That is a signature of #1679435

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-21 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, Pleased to let you know that I can now install apps like Skype & Screaming Frog. Thanks again for your helps and support With best regards Bernard On 17/07/17 22:49, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > Ok, thanks for getting back to us. > -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-17 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Ok, thanks for getting back to us. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to clamav in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-17 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Ok, thanks for getting back to us. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-14 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, Thanks for writing. Looks like you are right. It did not work straight away, i had to make several updates (and eventually an upgrade command) for it to work. I can now install apps via the terminal and also via the software manager (I only tried a few games that maybe are not

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-13 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Maybe you were hit by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1679435 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to clamav in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-13 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Maybe you were hit by this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1679435 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-07 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, Agreed not to use the update or software manager for now. Here is the output for dpkg -l | grep clamav iU clamav 0.99.2+dfsg-6 amd64 anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface iHR clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 all

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-07 Thread Andreas Hasenack
The ps output looks clean now. Can I suggest that you do not use update-manager or any other GUI to handle package upgrades or installs until we sort this? Let's stick to apt-get? Regarding clamav, can you get this output for me: dpkg -l | grep clamav -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-07 Thread Andreas Hasenack
The ps output looks clean now. Can I suggest that you do not use update-manager or any other GUI to handle package upgrades or installs until we sort this? Let's stick to apt-get? Regarding clamav, can you get this output for me: dpkg -l | grep clamav -- You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-06 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, I realised I was incomplete in my answer yesterday. The installations that stall are those initiated via the software manager, not via apt-get. Additional information After restarting, the software manager says it (ClamAv) is installed but I cannot configure it because it's not

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-06 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, Attached is output for ps fauxww. The update I had was a notification in the ubuntu software manager. Thanks again and best regards Bernard On 06/07/17 18:31, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > Just ps fauxww and the current error, because I'm lost again, apologies. > > When you say the

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-06 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Just ps fauxww and the current error, because I'm lost again, apologies. When you say the installation stalls, you mean an installation that you started manually via apt-get? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to clamav in

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-06 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Just ps fauxww and the current error, because I'm lost again, apologies. When you say the installation stalls, you mean an installation that you started manually via apt-get? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-06 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, Thanks again for your precious help. We are nearly there. At least it looks like the DPKG issue is lessened. I am attaching 2 files with the outputs from the terminal. The one without the "bis" is the output I had the first time. Where not much changed in the sense that after

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-03 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Wow, so many things happened Can you try "sudo apt install --reinstall libc6-dev"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-03 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Wow, so many things happened Can you try "sudo apt install --reinstall libc6-dev"? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to clamav in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-07-01 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Joshua, Thanks for your input. Pardon my ignorance but I guess I need to place or extract the downloaded contents somewhere in the root directory after down load. When I ran the command it first had a message (which I don't remeber) but meaning it could not locate the files or something.

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-30 Thread Joshua Powers
wow, libc6 in an inconsistent state this is no good. Well you could try installing manually from the deb. Find the version in /var/cache/apt/archives or download it from packages.ubuntu.com [1], click on amd64, and download from there. I believe that is the same version you have installed.

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-27 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Christian, Here are some updates. FYI, since I started getting this problem I had set the update manager to never check for updates, so it could not have been an update going in the back ground. Also, since your first reply I had not restarted the computer as I prefered to have it all

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-26 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Hi Bernard, thanks for following and trying to resolve. At the moment I'm puzzled as well - you clearly got rid of the offending /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat as confirmed by ll and lsof in step 10. Why it is then "in the way" on your retry to upgrade/install I have no idea yet :-/ Maybe it

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-23 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Christian, Thanks for the response. Since my understanding of all this is next to null, I have just followed the steps you recommended, without results. Here are the outputs. 1. At first the outputs were different and did not change anything. I eventually stopped the process of the update

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-23 Thread ChristianEhrhardt
Hi, so your upgrade in background is stalling at the config root 4113 0.0 1.2 299464 104388 ? SNl Jun20 0:04 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/sbin/aptd root 4751 0.0 1.1 300584 94612 pts/0SNs+ Jun20 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/sbin/aptd root 4779 0.0 0.0 4496 792

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-22 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Hi Andreas, In case you had not not received my reply, here is the output, this time pasted here for others to see. ps fauxww USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?SJun20 0:00 [kthreadd] root 4 0.0

Re: [Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-21 Thread Bernard Cayeux
Dear Andreas, Thanks for responding. I have indeed an update from the software installer that starts then stalls. It may be it. Anyway, most updates, like applications / software being installed, stall half-way. Attached is the output. Thanks and regards Bernard On 20/06/17 23:47, Andreas

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-20 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Thanks for filing this bug in Ubuntu. You seem to have an existing process trying to install or remove packages and that is conflicting with your other attempts. Could you please attach the output of the following command to this bug: ps fauxww Thanks! ** Changed in: clamav (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-20 Thread Andreas Hasenack
Thanks for filing this bug in Ubuntu. You seem to have an existing process trying to install or remove packages and that is conflicting with your other attempts. Could you please attach the output of the following command to this bug: ps fauxww Thanks! ** Changed in: clamav (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1698772] Re: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting a removal

2017-06-19 Thread Apport retracing service
** Tags removed: need-duplicate-check -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1698772 Title: package clamav-base 0.99.2+dfsg-6 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad