Cannot install any applications or update anything.

[djswartz]

I've been a long time user of Gnome and a few weeks ago I decided to give KDE a whirl.

Kubuntu 10.04 was running smoothly for a while, but now all of a sudden I get this error message in KPackageKit
Waiting for package manager to lock

When I try apt-get I get this message
dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a'
to correct the problem.

After I run dpkg --configure -a I get these errors:


dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.1 (--configure):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
mysql-server depends on mysql-server-5.1; however:
Package mysql-server-5.1 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.1
mysql-server

So obviously there is somthing wrong with my MySql installation, but I don't know how to fix it as I cannot install anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Dylan

[dino99]

remove/purge mysql-server-5.1

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update

then reinstall it

sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a

[djswartz]

Thanks man,

It works now. =]

[Kanedagr]

Thanks to both of you! In my case though i simply have to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" and everything went back to normal.

[AreaEuropa]

Didn't directly work for me:


sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
mysql-server-5.1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 15.0MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: error processing mysql-server-5.1 (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
mysql-server-5.1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

But this fixed it:

sudo aptitude install mysql-server-5.1

After which I could do a:

sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

And back to normal again.

Thanks !!