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masmithrpg
October 15th, 2011, 02:08 AM
i've had this for a while, but i need to get it resolved now so that i can upgrade to 11.10.

The message i'm getting is
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

if i run sudo dpkg --configure -a i get

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0023' near line 0:
EOF after field name `all.png'

if i run sudo apt-get update it runs for a while then fails with
Fetched 2,744 B in 16s (165 B/s)
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

if i run sudo apt-get install -f i get
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

any ideas on how to fix this

thanks

mike