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conscott
August 6th, 2008, 05:32 AM
While updating/installing I now get the error message


conor@conor-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common f-spot gucharmap gvfs
gvfs-backends libebook1.2-9 libedata-book1.2-2 libedataserverui1.2-8
libenchant1c2a libsmbclient linux-generic linux-headers-generic
linux-image-generic linux-restricted-modules-generic rhythmbox samba-common
smbclient ubuntu-desktop winbind
The following packages will be upgraded:
acpid alsa-utils anacron app-install-data apport apport-gtk apt apt-utils
apturl at-spi bluez-audio bluez-cups bluez-utils brltty brltty-x11 bsh
bug-buddy capplets-data consolekit cpp-4.3 dbus dbus-x11 dhcdbd dpkg-dev eog
evolution-common fast-user-switch-applet file-roller friendly-recovery
g++-4.3 gcalctool gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base gdebi gdebi-core gedit gedit-common
gettext gettext-base ghostscript ghostscript-x gnome-about
gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-cards-data gnome-control-center
gnome-desktop-data gnome-games gnome-games-data gnome-keyring gnome-mag
gnome-menus gnome-orca gnome-settings-daemon gnome-system-monitor
gnome-themes gnome-volume-manager gnupg gparted gpgv grub gstreamer0.10-esd
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio gtk2-engines
gtk2-engines-pixbuf gvfs-fuse hal human-theme initramfs-tools java-common
klibc-utils klogd libalut0 libatspi1.0-0 libbrlapi0.5 libcamel1.2-12
libck-connector0 libdbus-1-3 libebackend1.2-0 libecal1.2-7 libedata-cal1.2-6
libedataserver1.2-11 libeel2-2 libeel2-data libegroupwise1.2-13
libexchange-storage1.2-3 libgcc1 libgd2-noxpm libgda3-3 libgda3-common
libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgfortran3 libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libglu1-mesa
libgnome-desktop-2-7 libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-mag2 libgnome-menu2
libgnome-speech7 libgnome-window-settings1 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-bin
libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgomp1 libgphoto2-2
libgphoto2-port0 libgs8 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
libgtkhtml3.14-19 libgvfscommon0 libhal-storage1 libhal1 libhsqldb-java
libjaxp1.3-java libjline-java libklibc libldap-2.4-2 libloudmouth1-0
libltdl7 libnautilus-extension1 libpam-gnome-keyring libpciaccess0 libpcre3
libpcrecpp0 libpixman-1-0 libpoppler-glib3 libpoppler3 libpulse-browse0
libpulse0 libpulsecore5 libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbus
libqt4-designer libqt4-gui libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script
libqt4-sql libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4
libservlet2.4-java libsoup2.4-1 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.3-dev
libxerces2-java libxxf86vm1 linux-libc-dev mesa-utils mousetweaks nautilus
nautilus-data openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
openoffice.org-writer2latex poppler-utils pulseaudio
pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf pulseaudio-module-hal
pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python-apport python-apt
python-brlapi python-cups python-cupshelpers python-gmenu
python-problem-report python-pyatspi python2.5 python2.5-minimal rhino
shared-mime-info sound-juicer sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
synaptic sysklogd system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-gnome
texmaker tgif tomboy totem totem-common totem-gstreamer totem-mozilla
totem-plugins totem-xine tzdata tzdata-java ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-docs
ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard update-manager update-manager-core vinagre
vino wacom-tools xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xutils-dev
220 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 20 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/205MB of archives.
After this operation, 7840kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: error processing dpkg (--configure):
package dpkg is not ready for configuration
cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
Errors were encountered while processing:
dpkg
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


i have tried

sudo dpkg --configure -a

with no luck

any ideas?

zvacet
August 6th, 2008, 03:34 PM
sudo apt-get -f install

kemadruma
September 26th, 2008, 08:21 AM
still, I m getting error like

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



when i perform sudo dpkg --configure -a

it says



dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0049' near line 1:
newline in field name `#padding'



the file /var/lib/dpkg/updates/0049 contains on


#padding
#padding
#padding
.
.
.
.



without any new line.

wat to do???

ichigo6420
March 20th, 2011, 12:22 AM
i'm having exactly the same problem...what do i do?!