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apt-get: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

Hello.

I have some problems with apt-get. After doing some basic test on my Linux Mint 9 LTS desktop on bacula and mysql my apt-get upgrade process failed.

Code:

tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 uname -a

Linux tobik 2.6.32-35-generic-pae #78-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 11 17:01:12 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux



tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get -y upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages have been kept back:

  linux-generic linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-image-generic-pae

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Setting up bacula-director-mysql (5.0.1-1ubuntu1) ...

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 dpkg --configure --pending

Setting up bacula-director-mysql (5.0.1-1ubuntu1) ...

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

bacula-director-mysql



tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get purge bacula-director-mysql

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  bacula-common-mysql bacula-director-common bacula-common

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  bacula-director-mysql*

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 864kB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

(Reading database ... 177497 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing bacula-director-mysql ...

.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--purge):

subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error while cleaning up:

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get -f install

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  bacula-common-mysql bacula-director-mysql bacula-director-common bacula-common

Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.

Setting up bacula-director-mysql (5.0.1-1ubuntu1) ...

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--configure):

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 apt-get autoremove

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  bacula-common bacula-common-mysql bacula-director-common bacula-director-mysql

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

1 not fully installed or removed.

After this operation, 2,765kB disk space will be freed.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

(Reading database ... 177497 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing bacula-director-mysql ...

.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--remove):

subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error while cleaning up:

subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Removing bacula-director-common ...

Removing bacula-common-mysql ...

Removing bacula-common ...

Processing triggers for ureadahead ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

Processing triggers for man-db ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I'd like to get rid of the problem - be able to upgrade the system.
It would be best to uninstall all the packages related to bacula and MySQL, along with the configuration. After that, I could play with them again after reinstalling.

Are you doing a plain upgrade or a dist-upgrade (a newer versions of Linux Mint)? If you are doing a plain upgrade try

Code:

aptitude update

aptitude safe-upgrade

let us know how you go.

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01 (Post 4675479)

Are you doing a plain upgrade or a dist-upgrade (a newer versions of Linux Mint)? If you are doing a plain upgrade try

Code:

aptitude update

aptitude safe-upgrade

let us know how you go.

I'm not going to do an "dist-upgrade". I don't want to upgrade to Linux Mint 10, 11 or 12. I just want to upgrade all packages to newer available versions in scope of Linux Mint 9. I want to do it the way I do until now every few days:

Code:

apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade

I don't have "safe-upgrade" option in my aptitude.

Code:

tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF8 aptitude --version

aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Oct 20 2011 13:35:11

Compiler: g++ 4.4.3

Compiled against:

  apt version 4.8.0

  NCurses version 5.7

  libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2

  Ept support enabled.



Current library versions:

  NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803

  cwidget version: 0.5.13

  Apt version: 4.8.0



tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF8 apt-get --version

apt 0.7.25.3ubuntu9.10 for i386 compiled on Mar  5 2012 16:43:41

Supported modules:

*Ver: Standard .deb

*Pkg:  Debian dpkg interface (Priority 30)

 S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree

 S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree

 Idx: Debian Source Index

 Idx: Debian Package Index

 Idx: Debian Translation Index

 Idx: Debian dpkg status file

Quote:

Originally Posted by immer (Post 4676195)

I don't have "safe-upgrade" option in my aptitude.

Errata. I have this option (previously, I looked at aptitude manual in my native language, which turns out to be outdated).

Output:

Code:

tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF8 aptitude safe-upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

Resolving dependencies...

Resolving dependencies...

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  linux-headers-2.6.32-41{a} linux-headers-2.6.32-41-generic{a} linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic{a} 

  linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic-pae{a} 

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  bacula-director-mysql{u} 

The following packages will be upgraded:

  linux-generic linux-generic-pae linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-image-generic-pae 

5 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to get 74.1MB of archives. After unpacking 284MB will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

Writing extended state information... Done

Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic 2.6.32-41.88 [31.6MB]

Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic-pae 2.6.32-41.88 [31.7MB]

Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-generic 2.6.32.41.48 [4,888B]                    

Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-image-generic 2.6.32.41.48 [4,896B]              

Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-generic-pae 2.6.32.41.48 [4,894B]                

Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-image-generic-pae 2.6.32.41.48 [4,906B]          

Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-headers-2.6.32-41 2.6.32-41.88 [9,942kB]         

Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-headers-2.6.32-41-generic 2.6.32-41.88 [797kB]   

Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main linux-headers-generic 2.6.32.41.48 [4,886B]            

Fetched 74.1MB in 1min 48s (684kB/s)                                                                              

(Reading database ... 177340 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing bacula-director-mysql ...

.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--remove):

 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error while cleaning up:

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

 bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Reading package lists... Done             

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

Writing extended state information... Done

Do you need mysql for anything else? It may be that you will need to check for orphaned packages and then reinstall the packages you need.

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01 (Post 4676345)

Do you need mysql for anything else? It may be that you will need to check for orphaned packages and then reinstall the packages you need.

I don't need mysql for any other package. Look at my first post please. Uninstall orphaned packages also leads to errors.

Quote:

Originally Posted by immer (Post 4676462)

I don't need mysql for any other package.

Good then remove it and start again if need be.

Code:

aptitude purge bacula

aptitude purge mysql

#Remove any orphaned packages at this point#

aptitude update

aptitude safe-upgrade

Quote:

Originally Posted by immer (Post 4676462)

Look at my first post please.

I looked at your first post before I typed the first reply. Have you upgraded the system? Did you remove mysql and bacula?

Quote:

Originally Posted by immer (Post 4676462)

Uninstall orphaned packages also leads to errors.

Does it? that's interesting. Orphaned packages aren't required by anything, that is why they are orphaned, so removing them should not create any problems.

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01 (Post 4676472)

Good then remove it and start again if need be.

Code:

aptitude purge bacula

aptitude purge mysql

#Remove any orphaned packages at this point#

aptitude update

aptitude safe-upgrade

I looked at your first post before I typed the first reply. Have you upgraded the system? Did you remove mysql and bacula?
Does it? that's interesting. Orphaned packages aren't required by anything, that is why they are orphaned, so removing them should not create any problems.

Sorry, I've been sure that `apt-get autoremove`, listed at first post, removes orhpaned packages.
After all, I'm stuck at first step:

Code:

tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 aptitude purge bacula

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

Writing extended state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  bacula-director-mysql{u} 

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 864kB will be freed.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

Writing extended state information... Done

(Reading database ... 177340 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing bacula-director-mysql ...

.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--remove):

 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error while cleaning up:

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

 bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Reading package lists... Done             

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

Code:

tobik ~ # LANG=en_US.UTF-8 aptitude purge mysql-server

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:

  bacula-director-mysql{u} mysql-server{p} mysql-server-5.1{u} mysql-server-core-5.1{u} 

0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 28.0MB will be freed.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 

Writing extended state information... Done

(Reading database ... 177340 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing bacula-director-mysql ...

.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--remove):

 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2

debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates



.: 12: Can't open /usr/share/dbconfig-common/internal/mysql

dpkg: error while cleaning up:

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Errors were encountered while processing:

 bacula-director-mysql

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:

Reading package lists... Done             

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Reading extended state information      

Initializing package states... Done

I need a break, lol. Sorry I've had a crappy week and didn't take it all in even though I did read it.

Ok in

Code:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/

you need to find the files it mentions in the errors, delete them (only the ones it mentions), apt-get or aptitude should work for you after that so you can purge those packages and then do your upgrade.

I'm having very similar problem, trying to reinstall LibreOffice...running Pangolin.

I keep getting the following:
"Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a3.5.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)"

Attempted resolutions:
-deleted from the archive file the line: "libreoffice-common_1%...etc" with no change.
-have run apt-get update
-have run apt-get install -f
-have rebooted...and, not running another terminal window or synaptic.

dlsmith, is that the whole error message? You see the OPs message has alot more information to it so if you can give us more we may be able to help better.

[RESOLVED] error message

Quote:

Originally Posted by k3lt01 (Post 4700204)

dlsmith, is that the whole error message? You see the OPs message has alot more information to it so if you can give us more we may be able to help better.

Thnx, after my third attempt, where I attacked the errant file via Synaptic instead of via a terminal window, I finally was able to delete the .deb file cited in the error message...and then the reinstall went fine.

Appreciate yr reply.
David

Well done, it's good you worked through it.