help with "dpkg" interruption during updgrade

[SabbyH]

HELP! went to do first update manger for my system and it gave me a message that says

E: dpkg was interrupted. you must manually run "dpkg -- configure-a" to correct the problem.

E:_Cache-> open() failed, please report.

Can someone tell me what's wrong and what I should do?

[disophisis]

Have you tried running the command it specifies in a terminal?

[SabbyH]

LOL - since I don't even know what a terminal really refers to, then no. No idea how to do that. Might not have been the best idea to get ubuntu since I don't know any computer stuff, but I've loved how it ran until now.

[disophisis]

Try going to Applications, then Accessories, then select Terminal. In the terminal, type:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

hit enter, and see if that clears it up.

[SabbyH]

thank you - I'll try that.

[disophisis]

saweet, and let us know if it works of course.

[johninsf]

Please help! I was upgrading to Kubuntu 9.10 tonight and got this this error after the install froze at ~90%. I tried running the sudo command mentioned in the terminal.

It does not work and I get the following error:

"unable to accessdpkg status area: Read-only file system."

What can I do to make my file system readable again? Is it a running process that is locking me out? Any direction would be appreciated.

Thanks.

John


HELP! went to do first update manger for my system and it gave me a message that says

E: dpkg was interrupted. you must manually run "dpkg -- configure-a" to correct the problem.

E:_Cache-> open() failed, please report.

Can someone tell me what's wrong and what I should do?

[SabbyH]

I did the instructions in a terminal and it seemed that everything worked. It seemed it was runnign the updates. When it was done though, the error message I got is below and now my netbook won't even recognize wifi. So I have no way to download ubuntu to re-install since I have no CD drive and it won't connect to the internet!

Here's the error message:


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/main/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/universe/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US.bz2 Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'


W: Failed to fetch http://dell-mini.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/Release.gpg Could not resolve 'dell-mini.archive.canonical.com'