Josh, Unfortunately for your diagnosis I have had to force a work around - the problem was stopping apt - upgrade from working so as best as I can remember what happened in response to the command set you asked me to run was:
#apt clean : null (I run clean regularly) #apt update : files downloaded successfully - including update to clamav-daemon #apt purge clamav-daemon : couldn't stop clamav-daemon my work-around was a bit drastic I renamed all clamav-daemon files and folders to xxxclamav-daemon and rebooted, then I ran #apt clean && sudo apt autoremove #apt -f install #dpkg --configure -a" #apt update #apt upgrade and the problem has gone away Btw - the problem occurred if I upgraded from 14.04LTS - 14.10 - 15.04 - 15.10 - 16.04; it doesn't occur moving from 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS directly. Hope this helps Kind regards, John Douglas Tel 0121 436 7414 Mob 07973 732213 Fax 0121 474 4001 Email john-doug...@btclick.com Oaksford, The Fordrough, Truemans Heath Lane, Shirley, Solihull, West Midlands B90 1PP Tel: 0121 436 7414 The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Thank-you for your co-operation. On 24/10/16 16:22, Joshua Powers wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make > Ubuntu better. > > If you could provide the output of the following commands it may be > helpful: > >> sudo apt clean >> sudo apt update >> sudo apt purge clamav-daemon > If that works then try reinstalling clamav-daemon again. > > As you have pointed out your system is in an inconsistent state. Because > the bug tracker is meant to track bugs found in Ubuntu and not general > support, you may want to get help for this sort of problem here: > http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community > > I am going to move this bug to 'Incomplete' for now since this does not > appear to be a bug in Ubuntu. If you provide more details then please > move the bug back to 'New'. > > ** Changed in: clamav (Ubuntu) > Status: Confirmed => Incomplete > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604319 Title: package clamav-daemon 0.99+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clamav/+bug/1604319/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
