Hmm, I seem to have broke apt again somehow. I seem to be good at doing this now heh.
Anyway, basically I performed an update through the 'update' tool, and woke up this morning to a tonne of errors. I re-ran apt-get upgrade and got the following;
andy@Neeps:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 18 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Setting up ttf-opensymbol (2.0.4-0ubuntu4) ... Updating fontconfig cache... "/usr/share/fonts": error scanning "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": error scanning "/usr/local/share/fonts": error scanning "/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d": error scanning dpkg: error processing ttf-opensymbol (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-core: openoffice.org-core depends on ttf-opensymbol; however: Package ttf-opensymbol is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-uno: python-uno depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing python-uno (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-writer: openoffice.org-writer depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-writer depends on python-uno (>= 2.0.4); however: Package python-uno is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-calc: openoffice.org-calc depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-calc (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-draw: openoffice.org-draw depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-draw (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-impress: openoffice.org-impress depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-impress depends on openoffice.org-draw (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-draw is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-impress (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-math: openoffice.org-math depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-math (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-base: openoffice.org-base depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org: openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-writer; however: Package openoffice.org-writer is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-calc; however: Package openoffice.org-calc is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-impress; however: Package openoffice.org-impress is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-draw; however: Package openoffice.org-draw is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-math; however: Package openoffice.org-math is not configured yet. openoffice.org depends on openoffice.org-base; however: Package openoffice.org-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-dev: openoffice.org-dev depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-dev (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-evolution: openoffice.org-evolution depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-evolution depends on openoffice.org-base; however: Package openoffice.org-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-evolution (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-gtk: openoffice.org-gtk depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-gtk (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-gnome: openoffice.org-gnome depends on openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. openoffice.org-gnome depends on openoffice.org-gtk; however: Package openoffice.org-gtk is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-common: openoffice.org-common depends on openoffice.org-core (>> 2.0.4~rc3) | openoffice.org-core-experimental (>> 2.0.4~rc3); however: Package openoffice.org-core is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-core-experimental is not installed. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-java-common: openoffice.org-java-common depends on openoffice.org-common; however: Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-java-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-style-default: openoffice.org-style-default depends on openoffice.org-common (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-style-default (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-style-industrial: openoffice.org-style-industrial depends on openoffice.org-common (= 2.0.4-0ubuntu4); however: Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-style-industrial (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: ttf-opensymbol openoffice.org-core python-uno openoffice.org-writer openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-math openoffice.org-base openoffice.org openoffice.org-dev openoffice.org-evolution openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-style-default openoffice.org-style-industrial E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) andy@Neeps:~$
I have done a few things to try to fix this, but I seem to not find a fix..












That's weird.. Have you tried running update again? It can sometimes fix issues. Not sure what else to suggest right now..
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Tried it. I can use apt fine, its just it displays all them errors. But then the program works fine. eg xmms this morning.
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IIRC this can be solved with
dpkg -reconfigure <package>or something like that.If not, try what happens if you uninstall an error-causing package and then reinstall it.
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Try doing
apt-get updateand thenapt-get dist-upgradeinstead, that might help. Or you can install aptitude and do the same thing, but withaptitudeinstead ofapt-get.EDIT: taking another look, this is unlikely to help, I think you are best off following Taco's advice.
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I'll just point you to
apt-get -f install, which can fix all kinds of stuffThomas Jollans
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Hmm still nothing..
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checked the filesystem for errors ? (fsck)
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Will try that later. Currently it is in my bag, I don't plan to waste so much battery
I am thinking of giving GNU/Linux a larger partition on my mac anyway, which will mean a format..
I don't have much work at all. Just noted for aKademy and Translation stuff.
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