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amolredhat
September 18th, 2012, 06:38 AM
While installing packages in the Server, i Found that "apt" is not working properly, i have to manually download .deb package and then, i have to install in the servers, From command line are not working properly.

I have tried to fix this with following commands:-



sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
Below is the Error :-

administrator@xyz:~$ sudo apt-get install pidgin
[sudo] password for administrator:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
pidgin is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
32 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up shared-mime-info (0.71-1ubuntu2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/shared-mime-info.postinst: line 13: 1214 Segmentation fault update-mime-database.real /usr/share/mime
dpkg: error processing shared-mime-info (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-0:
libgtk2.0-0 depends on shared-mime-info; however:
Package shared-mime-info is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-0 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-browser:
chromium-browser depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-browser (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-codecs-ffmpeg:
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg depends on chromium-browser (>= 4.0.203.0~); however:
Package chromium-browser is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-codecs-ffmpeg (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of chromium-browser-l10n:
chromium-browser-l10n depends on chromium-browser (= 18.0.1025.151~r130497-0ubuntu0.10.04.No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
1); however:
Package chromium-browser is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing chromium-browser-l10n (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libevdocument2:
libevdocument2 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libevdocument2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libevview2:
libevview2 depends on libevdocument2 (>= 2.29.5); however:
Package libevdocument2 is not configured yet.
libevview2 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libevview2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of evince:
evince depends on libevdocument2 (>= 2.29.5); however:
Package libevdocument2 is not configured yet.
evince depends on libevview2 (>= 2.29.No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
5); however:
Package libevview2 is not configured yet.
evince depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
evince depends on shared-mime-info; however:
Package shared-mime-info is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing evince (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of firefox:
firefox depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing firefox (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gcalctool:
gcalctool depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gcalctool (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgdict-1.0-6:
libgdict-1.0-6 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgdict-1.0-6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-utils:
gnome-utils depends on libgdict-1.0-6 (>= 2.23.90); however:
Package libgdict-1.0-6 is not configured yet.
gnome-utils depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-utils (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gtk2-engines-pixbuf:
gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0; however:
Package gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0 is not installed.
Package libgtk2.0-0 which provides gtk2.0-binver-2.10.0 is not configured yet.
gtk2-engines-pixbuf depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gtk2-engines-pixbuf (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libedataserverui1.2-8:
libedataserverui1.2-8 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libedataserverui1.2-8 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgail18:
libgail18 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgail18 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-bin:
libgtk2.0-bin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-bin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk2.0-dev:
libgtk2.0-dev depends on libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libnotify-dev:
libnotify-dev depends on libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.10); however:
Package libgtk2.0-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libnotify-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of network-manager-gnome:
network-manager-gnome depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing network-manager-gnome (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-core:
openoffice.org-core depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.10); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-core (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-draw:
openoffice.org-draw depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.4); however:
Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-draw (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-impress:
openoffice.org-impress depends on openoffice.org-core (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.4); however:
Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
openoffice.org-impress depends on openoffice.org-draw (= 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.4); however:
Package openoffice.org-draw is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-impress (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin:
pidgin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pidgin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Setting up update-manager (1:0.134.12.1) ...
dpkg: error processing update-manager (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 245
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-notifier:
update-notifier depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
update-notifier depends on update-manager; however:
Package update-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-1.9.2:
xulrunner-1.9.2 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.2 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-1.9.2-dev:
xulrunner-1.9.2-dev depends on xulrunner-1.9.2 (= 1.9.2.28+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1); however:
Package xulrunner-1.9.2 is not configured yet.
xulrunner-1.9.2-dev depends on libnotify-dev; however:
Package libnotify-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing xulrunner-1.9.2-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icedtea6-plugin:
icedtea6-plugin depends on xulrunner-1.9.2; however:
Package xulrunner-1.9.2 is not configured yet.
icedtea6-plugin depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing icedtea6-plugin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgweather-common (2.30.0-0ubuntu1.1) ...
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: error processing libgweather-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 245
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgweather1:
libgweather1 depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.11.0); however:
Package libgtk2.0-0 is not configured yet.
libgweather1 depends on libgweather-common (>= 2.24.0); however:
Package libgweather-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libgweather1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-style-galaxy:
openoffice.org-style-galaxy depends on openoffice.org-core (>= 1:3.2.0~beta); however:
Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet.
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-style-galaxy (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-common:
openoffice.org-common depends on openoffice.org-style-default | openoffice.org-style; however:
Package openoffice.org-style-default is not installed.
Package openoffice.org-style-galaxy which provides openoffice.org-style-default is not configured yet.
Package openoffice.org-style is not installed.
Package openoffice.org-style-galaxy which provides openoffice.org-style is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
shared-mime-info
libgtk2.0-0
chromium-browser
chromium-codecs-ffmpeg
chromium-browser-l10n
libevdocument2
libevview2
evince
firefox
gcalctool
libgdict-1.0-6
gnome-utils
gtk2-engines-pixbuf
libedataserverui1.2-8
libgail18
libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-dev
libnotify-dev
network-manager-gnome
openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-impress
pidgin
update-manager
update-notifier
xulrunner-1.9.2
xulrunner-1.9.2-dev
icedtea6-plugin
libgweather-common
libgweather1
openoffice.org-style-galaxy
openoffice.org-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
administrator@xyz:~$

Ubuntu Guru's i appreciate, if some help me to resolve this issue.


Thanks in advance :)

drmrgd
September 18th, 2012, 12:39 PM
Looks like the package shared-mime-info is causing a problem that's cascading through the whole package installation process (i.e. other packages can't configure themselves until shared-mime-info is configured). I found this thread where there was a solution posted at the bottom:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/102480/sudo-apt-get-upgrade-fails-due-to-shared-mime-info-postinst-error

Instead of using the maverick package, though, be sure to grab the correct one for your system (Precise?) and your architecture. Once you've installed that package manually, give the full update and upgrade another shot.