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sulekha
November 13th, 2008, 08:16 AM
Hi all,

whenever i try to upgrade via update manager i am getting the following
message

E: base-files: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2


what should i do to make updates possible ?

NB:- I use ubuntu 8.04.1

Partyboi2
November 14th, 2008, 09:26 AM
Need more info about the error. Can you open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and post the output to

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Waraqa
January 3rd, 2009, 06:11 PM
I have the same problem


uae@uae-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy Release
Hit http://archive.canonical.com hardy/partner Packages
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release.gpg
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Translation-en_US
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy Release [27.6kB]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/multiverse Packages
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages [7803B]
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release
Get:4 http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release [58.5kB]
Ign http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/restricted Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/multiverse Packages
Fetched 35.6kB in 6s (5251B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://ae.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
uae@uae-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-30 libdns35 libisccc30 libisccfg30
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
linux-restricted-modules-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
adobe-flashplugin alacarte anacron app-install-data-commercial apt apt-utils
avahi-autoipd avahi-daemon compiz-fusion-plugins-main cupsys cupsys-bsd
cupsys-client cupsys-common dbus dbus-x11 deskbar-applet eject eog evince
evolution evolution-common evolution-data-server
evolution-data-server-common evolution-exchange evolution-plugins
firefox-gnome-support foo2zjs gcalctool gdb gdm gnome-about gnome-cards-data
gnome-desktop-data gnome-games gnome-games-data gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
gnome-system-monitor grub gstreamer0.10-tools gtk2-engines
gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks
gtkhtml3.14 gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-fuse hal hal-info hpijs hplip hplip-data
initramfs-tools iproute jockey-common jockey-gtk language-pack-ar
language-pack-ar-base language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-ar
language-pack-gnome-ar-base language-pack-gnome-en libavahi-client3
libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1
libavahi-core5 libavahi-glib1 libavahi-gobject0 libavahi-qt3-1 libavahi-ui0
libcamel1.2-11 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libdbus-1-3 libebook1.2-9
libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9
libedataserverui1.2-8 libegroupwise1.2-13 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libexif12
libfreetype6 libgadu3 libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgksu2-0
libglib2.0-0 libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgnome-desktop-2 libgnutls13 libgphoto2-2
libgphoto2-port0 libgstreamer0.10-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common libgtkhtml3.14-19 libgtksourceview2.0-0
libgtksourceview2.0-common libgvfscommon0 libgweather-common libgweather1
libhal-storage1 libhal1 libimlib2 liblcms1 liblwres30 libnautilus-extension1
libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libpanel-applet2-0 libpurple0 libsmbclient libsmbios1
libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libsoup2.4-1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3
libwnck-common libwnck22 libxml2 libxml2-utils
linux-restricted-modules-common logrotate module-init-tools nautilus
nautilus-data nautilus-sendto nvidia-glx-new openoffice.org-base-core
openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk
openoffice.org-help-en-gb openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-l10n-common openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za openoffice.org-style-human openoffice.org-writer
passwd pciutils pidgin pidgin-data procps python-apt python-gobject
python-gtkhtml2 python-libxml2 python-uno rdesktop samba-common smbclient
sudo thunderbird-locale-en-gb ttf-opensymbol tzdata ubuntu-docs ufw
update-manager update-manager-core update-notifier update-notifier-common
vinagre winbind wine xkb-data xserver-xorg-video-intel xulrunner-1.9
xulrunner-1.9-gnome-support
180 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 7934kB/203MB of archives.
After this operation, 8315kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
cupsys-common libdbus-1-3 libcupsys2 libcupsimage2 procps cupsys
language-pack-ar language-pack-ar-base language-pack-en
language-pack-gnome-ar language-pack-gnome-ar-base language-pack-gnome-en
libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common gtk2-engines-pixbuf libgtk2.0-0
libgstreamer0.10-0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d ubuntu-docs libexif12 libhal1
libgphoto2-port0 libgphoto2-2 wine apt tzdata apt-utils eject
module-init-tools initramfs-tools iproute pciutils sudo xkb-data liblwres30
anacron logrotate python-apt ufw update-manager update-manager-core
gnome-about gnome-desktop-data gnome-panel-data libedataserver1.2-9
libcamel1.2-11 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2
libedata-cal1.2-6 libsoup2.4-1 libegroupwise1.2-13 libgdata1.2-1
libgdata-google1.2-1 evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common
libedataserverui1.2-8 libgnome-desktop-2 libgweather-common libgweather1
libpanel-applet2-0 libwnck-common libwnck22 gnome-panel alacarte
app-install-data-commercial dbus cupsys-bsd cupsys-client dbus-x11
deskbar-applet eog libnautilus-extension1 evince evolution evolution-common
libgtkhtml3.14-19 gtkhtml3.14 libexchange-storage1.2-3 evolution-exchange
evolution-plugins foo2zjs gcalctool gdb gdm gnome-cards-data
gnome-games-data gnome-games libglibmm-2.4-1c2a gnome-system-monitor grub
gstreamer0.10-tools gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-murrine
gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks libgvfscommon0 libsmbclient gvfs-backends gvfs
gvfs-fuse hal-info libhal-storage1 libsmbios1 hal jockey-gtk jockey-common
libgksu2-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtksourceview2.0-common libgtksourceview2.0-0
nautilus-sendto nautilus-data nautilus python-gobject python-gtkhtml2
winbind smbclient samba-common thunderbird-locale-en-gb
update-notifier-common update-notifier xserver-xorg-video-intel
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main wine 1.1.11~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1 [7934kB]
Fetched 7934kB in 2min24s (54.9kB/s)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up base-files (4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.3) ...
find: /var/cache/fonts: No such file or directory
find: /var/cache/anthy: No such file or directory
chgrp 0 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/KacstLetter.ttf /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/KacstQura.ttf /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/KacstQuraFixed.ttf /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/KacstLetter.ttf /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/KacstQura.ttf /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/KacstQuraFixed.ttf
chgrp: cannot dereference `/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/KacstLetter.ttf': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot dereference `/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/KacstQura.ttf': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot dereference `/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/KacstQuraFixed.ttf': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot dereference `/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/KacstLetter.ttf': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot dereference `/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/KacstQura.ttf': No such file or directory
chgrp: cannot dereference `/var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts/KacstQuraFixed.ttf': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 123
Errors were encountered while processing:
base-files
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Can anyone help me ?

Waraqa
January 4th, 2009, 01:54 PM
I'm currently unable to install any package due to this error !

Any help would be appreciated !