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Pieter Breed
Asked: 2010-11-29 03:56:28 +0800 CST

Cloud server stuck on dpkg --configure -a

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I have an amazon micro instance which runs one or two things for me. The config is minimal, it mainly acts as a host for a java application and couchdb.

I tried to install curl today and got this message:

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

So I ran the command using sudo:

sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up openjdk-6-jre-headless (6b20-1.9.1-1ubuntu3) ...

and it's been hanging there for a looooooong time. Top reports that a java process is using just about all of my CPU. Any ideas what this problem is and how I can fix it? Any ideas on what caused the issue?

10.10 server dpkg java aws

1 Answers

  1. You're running into bug 634487.

    The work arounds are:

    • use x86_64 instance type
    • stop instance, start as m1.small, dpkg --configure -a, stop, start as t1.micro
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