gmjs
January 9th, 2009, 08:21 PM
Hi,
I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1 and have had problems with the last two updates.
After the first update, the packages m4 and gettext became broken, and dpkg takes great delight in telling me this every time I use it to install another application! All updates and other applications I have tried to install from the repositories have all installed OK though.
The second time I ran the software update, the updates failed and package util-linux is now "Broken" too. It fails during the prerm script, as (I believe) do the other two.
Is there anything I've done to cause this? I may have installed m4 from source when compiling another application at some point. I'm assuming this has something to do with it!
Can I solve this problem without reinstalling Ubuntu?
Configuring all packages returns an error stating that the package util-linux has "very bad inconsistencies" and should be reinstalled before configuring. The package will not, however, be reinstalled.
$ graham@asus:~$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host bsdutils dnsutils libbind9-30 libdns35 libisc35 libisccc30
libisccfg30 liblwres30 linux-libc-dev linux-restricted-modules-common
nautilus-share util-linux-locales xorg-driver-fglrx
14 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.8MB of archives.
After this operation, 4096B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up util-linux (2.13.1-5ubuntu3) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing util-linux (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
util-linux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ graham@asus:~$ sudo aptitude
[ Presses g g ]
(Reading database ... 140657 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gettext ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing gettext (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Removing m4 ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing m4 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gettext
m4
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.
Many thanks for any help,
Graham
I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.1 and have had problems with the last two updates.
After the first update, the packages m4 and gettext became broken, and dpkg takes great delight in telling me this every time I use it to install another application! All updates and other applications I have tried to install from the repositories have all installed OK though.
The second time I ran the software update, the updates failed and package util-linux is now "Broken" too. It fails during the prerm script, as (I believe) do the other two.
Is there anything I've done to cause this? I may have installed m4 from source when compiling another application at some point. I'm assuming this has something to do with it!
Can I solve this problem without reinstalling Ubuntu?
Configuring all packages returns an error stating that the package util-linux has "very bad inconsistencies" and should be reinstalled before configuring. The package will not, however, be reinstalled.
$ graham@asus:~$ sudo apt-get -u upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
bind9-host bsdutils dnsutils libbind9-30 libdns35 libisc35 libisccc30
libisccfg30 liblwres30 linux-libc-dev linux-restricted-modules-common
nautilus-share util-linux-locales xorg-driver-fglrx
14 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/11.8MB of archives.
After this operation, 4096B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up util-linux (2.13.1-5ubuntu3) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing util-linux (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
util-linux
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ graham@asus:~$ sudo aptitude
[ Presses g g ]
(Reading database ... 140657 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gettext ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing gettext (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Removing m4 ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: error processing m4 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gettext
m4
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Press return to continue.
Many thanks for any help,
Graham