I was unable to solve this problem and trying to fix this looking around the web and finally I have manage to broke my system to the unrecoverable state and so was force to wipe out Ubuntu 14.04 and I decided to fresh install Ubuntu 16.04.
This bug report can be closed down, because I no longer need help. If you think it is a bug, you can still leave it open, but I will not be able to provide any useful info anymore. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to binutils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1584151 Title: When 'apt-get -y dist-upgrade' error: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Status in binutils package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After executing: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade I got bellow error and I just can't get out of it. Trying million of things. ============ Fetched 132 kB in 12s (10,7 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages will be upgraded: binutils 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/2120 kB of archives. After this operation, 8192 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 432717 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../binutils_2.24-5ubuntu14.1_i386.deb ... Unpacking binutils (2.24-5ubuntu14.1) over (2.24-5ubuntu14) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.24-5ubuntu14.1_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of `/usr/bin/c++filt': Device or resource busy Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils_2.24-5ubuntu14.1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I currently don't have any PPA installed. ============ I tried bellow commands, but the problem is the same. sudo apt-get -f install sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: binutils 2.24-5ubuntu14 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-86.131-generic 3.13.11-ckt39 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-86-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.20 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Fri May 20 19:14:51 2016 Dependencies: gcc-4.9-base 4.9.3-0ubuntu4 libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6.7 libgcc1 1:4.9.3-0ubuntu4 multiarch-support 2.19-0ubuntu6.7 zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-23 (728 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417) SourcePackage: binutils UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/+bug/1584151/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
