Hi, What does your /etc/apt/sources.list say? Mike
Quoting Chris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what > I've seen it seems like it's the correct place. > > I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our production boxes: > > xxxxxx:~# apt-get update > [this works fine] > > xxxxxx:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed > locales: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > xxxxxx:~# apt-get -f upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/1901kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb > (--unpack): > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work. > for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and the > second or third time it will just work. > > It's still a potato system. > > Any help at all appreciated. > > Regards, > > Chris. > ______________________________________________________ > Chris McCormick - Systems Developer - PerthWeb Pty Ltd > Internet Solutions for your business! > Level 9/105 St George's Tc - Perth - Western Australia > Ph: (08) 9226 1366 Fax: (08) 9226 1375 > Visit Perth online! : www.perthweb.com.au > PGP Key = http://www.perthweb.com.au/~chris/public.txt > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
