update stuck

[mike555]

My updater is stuck and won't let me update because of this:



I tried fixing broken packages, but it didn't work, any ideas how to fix?

[sanderj]

I would open a terminal and run

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and then Google the error message.

[fantab]

Kill the update manager. Try what sanderj has adviced. If you still get errors:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[mike555]

Thanks but I'm still getting error code 1 in terminal

[fantab]

I think your '/' partition is full. You need to create some space. If you have older kernels remove them.

Run:

sudo update-grub

This should tell you how many 'unused' kernels you have. Make note of the topmost/latest kernel version.

Run:
[/code]uname -r[/code]
This should tell you what kernel version you are using. If this is not latest then REBOOT. Check again and confirm that you are using latest kernel.

Run:

sudo dpkg -l linux-* | awk '/^ii/{ print $2}' | grep -v -e `uname -r | cut -f1,2 -d"-"` | grep -e [0-9] | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge

This should remove all the 'unused' kernels.

Also check in the '/' directory to see if you have saved any data, and which you can remove.

Then run:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[mike555]

I'm using 42% of space, so that is not problem .... and I'm using 3.2.0-56-generic

[ian-weisser]

What about that logfile in the error message? Does it exist? If it exists, check it's permissions. Or try moving or renaming it, so the uninstall script will create a fresh logfile. If the logfile does not exist, try creating one for the script to write to.