Problems with apt-get -f install

[Nunners]

I'm having problems installing various applications, and thought if I tried again from scratch, it might solve the problem, but I can't get back to nothing!

I get the following now:

apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
exim4-daemon-heavy sa-exim
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 1,602kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 39877 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sa-exim ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing sa-exim (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing exim4-daemon-heavy ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
sa-exim
exim4-daemon-heavy
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can someone gi veme some guidance on how to find the log files (if there are any) to find out whats causing the problem?

Thanks
Nunners

[dabl]

Probably, in a terminal, this will fix it:


sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get remove --purge exim4-daemon-heavy

(observe for error output)


sudo apt-get remove --purge sa-exim

(observe for error output)


sudo apt-get clean

NOW


sudo apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy sa-exim

(observe for error output)

I don't know those packages -- they may have a config screen that you need to give a response during installation. Use the tab key to move to the "OK" to continue after making whatever response is needed.

[piotrwoj]

set repo sources.list to master server ubuntu.com, other server have to delay and old repo, because sometimes happen errors

Regards: Piotrwoj - my site on ubuntu server: http://www.domar.biz.pl

[Nunners]

THanks for the response...

I've tried as suggested, but no further on, as it's still coming up with the same errors....


s# sudo apt-get remove --purge exim4-daemon-heavy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
exim4-daemon-light
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED
exim4-daemon-heavy sa-exim
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 1,602kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 39905 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing sa-exim ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing sa-exim (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Removing exim4-daemon-heavy ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-heavy (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
sa-exim
exim4-daemon-heavy
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Again, tried checking the dpkg.log and it talks about half-installed etc...


2010-06-09 08:33:14 startup packages remove
2010-06-09 08:33:14 status half-installed sa-exim 4.2.1-12
2010-06-09 08:33:14 remove sa-exim 4.2.1-12 4.2.1-12
2010-06-09 08:33:14 status half-installed sa-exim 4.2.1-12
2010-06-09 08:33:14 status half-installed exim4-daemon-heavy 4.71-3ubuntu1
2010-06-09 08:33:14 remove exim4-daemon-heavy 4.71-3ubuntu1 4.71-3ubuntu1
2010-06-09 08:33:14 status half-installed exim4-daemon-heavy 4.71-3ubuntu1

[Nunners]

This gets stranger and stranger.

I tried

apt-get --assume-yes --purge remove exim4-daemon-heavy sa-exim

Which removed exim4-daemon-heavy and sa-exim, but then came up with errors on libperl5.10 & libpq5.

Then tried


apt-get --assume-yes --purge remove libperl5.10 libpq5

And now only libpq5 is the problem....


#sudo apt-get --assume-yes remove --purge libpq5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
libpq5
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 606kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 39866 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libpq5 ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-removal script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing libpq5 (--remove):
subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpq5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Nunners]

Finally got there... installed libpq5, which cleared it's error cleaned/updated... reinstalled the original packages!


sudo apt-get install libpq5
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy sa-exim