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Asked: 2011-12-12 21:02:52 +0800 CST

UBUNTU - Broken DPKG and Index

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Was doing a package update and it ended a process and hung so I rebooted the server and now it will not allow me to perform any more updates.

I tried the following to no avail:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install -f  (I get a message: E: DPKG was interrupted, you must manually run sudo dpkg --configure -a to correct the problem)
sudo dpkg --configure -a  (I get the following - which is where it got stuck the first time)
'Setting up citadel-server (8.03- 1)'
'sendcommand: started (pid=1692) running in 504'
'Attaching to server...'
'domain Citadel server ready'
'Authentication as an internal program.'
'DOWN'
'231 Shutting down server. Goodbye.'
sendcommand: processing ended.'

Then it all freezes and does nothing. It looks like a orphaned processes and it locks the dpkg and the citadel-server and so my mail no longer works. forcing me to reboot the server to get it back to work.

How do I fix the index so I can do future updates? Snaptic package also will not work.

Thank you

dpkg ubuntu-10.04 synaptic

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    In /var/lib/dpkg/info each package keeps some scripts:

    <pkgname>.preinst
<pkgname>.postinst
<pkgname>.prerm
<pkgname>.postrm

    To complete package installation process, .preinst and .postinst scripts should be run for each unpacked package. If those scripts finish with errors, dpkg interrupts. Find that scripts for citadel-server package and investigate why they don't work. Or just replase them with empty scripts with success exit status, run dpkg --configure -a and remove citadel-server.

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