[SOLVED] going in circles with apt-get dependency error

Daveb3 · 07-10-2013, 09:21 PM

running squeeze i just found apt-get install <prgm> returns dependency error & wont install anything.

i started with apt-get install apt-file & it errored with unmet dep & recommended apt-get -f install

ran that & it came back with more unmet dep.

e2fsprogs seems to figure prominently in the errors

i then tried running aptitude & told it look for broken & it found e2fsprogs & others but was unable to install with
basically the same unable to create .....e2fsprogs.mo.ppkg-new
below is the error msg that keeps popping up. anyone have any tips on how to fix?
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Log started: 2013-07-10 14:06:05
(Reading database ...

Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.41.12-2 (using .../e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ...
Replaced by files in installed package util-linux ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo.dpkg-new'
(while processing `./usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo'): No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb

Log ended: 2013-07-10 14:06:15
--------------------------------------------

evo2 · 07-10-2013, 09:35 PM

Hi,

have done an

Code:

apt-get update

recently? If not, please do so and then try running

Code:

apt-get -f install

again.

Also, is there anything else we should know about this machine? Eg has it had any other problems recently? Have the packages been kept up to date?

Evo2.

cynwulf · 07-11-2013, 03:49 AM

Post outputs

Code:

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Code:

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf

Code:

$ cat /etc/apt/preferences

zhjim · 07-11-2013, 04:22 AM

Does the director /usr/share/locale/ca exists?

Code:

ls /usr/share/locale/

What locale is active

Code:

locale

Firerat · 07-11-2013, 06:23 AM

what does

Code:

df -h

look like?

Anything maxed at 100%?

Daveb3 · 07-11-2013, 03:26 PM

thanks for the response.

evo2:
the sequence was, as i remember it, apt-get update, apt-get install moblin-sound-theme (was trying to get login spounds going),
that produced dep error, then apt-get -f install (more dep error with e2fsprogs mentioned). apt-get install e2fsprogs
(more dep errors & so on). by the way im doing all this from a root terminal.

re problems: only thing i noticed is that restart now goes to a login screen where it used to just reboot, i have to do 1/2 dozen extra clicks to get it to reboot. it is squeeze on my backup machine so doesn't get booted that often.
(i have multiple distros/systems on my computer, probably too many).

below is the output from the 2 commands you suggested today:
----------------------------------------
newbuild:/home/dave# apt-get update
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20091026-06:57] squeeze Release.gpg
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20091026-06:57] squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20091026-06:57] squeeze Release
Ign cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20091026-06:57] squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex
Get:1 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg [836B]
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release [86.9kB]
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Get:3 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Packages [332kB]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Packages
Get:4 http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources [110kB]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main Sources
Fetched 530kB in 14s (36.2kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

newbuild:/home/dave# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
e2fsprogs
Suggested packages:
gpart parted e2fsck-static
The following packages will be upgraded:
e2fsprogs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 440 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/818kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 124385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.41.12-2 (using .../e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ...
Replaced by files in installed package util-linux ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo'): No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
newbuild:/home/dave#
-------------------------------------------

cynwulf: output from your suggested commands:
-----------------------------
newbuild:/home/dave# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20091026-06:57]/ squeeze main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Squeeze_ - Official Snapshot amd64 CD Binary-1 20091026-06:57]/ squeeze main

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

newbuild:/home/dave# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
cat: /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory

newbuild:/home/dave# cat /etc/apt/preferences
cat: /etc/apt/preferences: No such file or directory
------------------------------

zhjim: output from your suggested commands:
----------------------------------
newbuild:/home/dave# ls /usr/share/locale
en en_AU en@boldquot en_CA en_GB en_NZ en@quot en@shaw en_US en_US@piglatin locale.alias

newbuild:/home/dave# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
------------------------------------

Firerat: output from your suggested command:
------------------------------
newbuild:/home/dave# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 31G 3.0G 27G 11% /
tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 376K 9.7M 4% /dev
tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 51G 39G 12G 77% /media/Vista64
/dev/sda1 36G 25G 11G 71% /media/XPPro
/dev/sda7 149G 92G 58G 62% /media/backups
/dev/sda5 101G 3.4G 98G 4% /media/data
/dev/sda6 101G 2.6G 99G 3% /media/dlstuff
/dev/sda9 149G 257M 149G 1% /media/video
/dev/sdb6 667G 229G 439G 35% /media/video2
/dev/sdc6 581G 282G 300G 49% /media/video3
/dev/sdd5 466G 158G 308G 34% /media/video4
/dev/sdd6 466G 53G 414G 12% /media/video5
/dev/sda8 11G 195M 11G 2% /media/sharedfat32
newbuild:/home/dave#
-------------------------------------

widget · 07-11-2013, 07:09 PM

I think, if it were me, that I would run;

Code:

apt-get clean

To get rid of every thing in /var/cache/apt/archives and then run;

Code:

dpkt --configure -a

just to see what it throws up.

evo2 · 07-11-2013, 07:43 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daveb3

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo'): No such file or directory

Ok, I think this is the real issue. From the df output we know your filesystem is not full, so we need to see what is going on here. Can you have a poke around under /usr/share/locale and see what is going on?
For example does /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ exist? If so what does it look like?
eg

Code:

stat /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/

Does it contain any files?
Eg

Code:

ls -l /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/

Can you create a file there?
Eg as root

Code:

echo foo > /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/bar

If it the directory doesn't exist, up to what level do its parent directories exist, and what do they look like? Etc.

HTH,

Evo2.

zhjim · 07-12-2013, 02:56 AM

come on evo2 at least read the answer of the op completly. Also its not using code tags. The directory /usr/share/locale/ca does not exists.

So lets recreate the locals with

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

that should create the directory for us. Or maybe reinstall the local packages all together

Code:

apt-get reinstall locales

I also think widget has some point with apt-get clean. Also a apt-get upgrade should not hurt.

evo2 · 07-12-2013, 03:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zhjim

come on evo2 at least read the answer of the op completly.

Nice attitude.

Evo2.

Daveb3 · 07-12-2013, 02:26 PM

i tried evo2 & widget commands b4 i read todays post.
zhjim is right, there is no ca/LC-MESSAGES. in fact there is no /ca. i didn't notice it either when i ran the ls command the other day.

below is putput from evo2 commands:
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newbuild:/home/dave# stat /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
stat: cannot stat `/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES': No such file or directory

newbuild:/home/dave# ls /usr/share/locale
en en_AU en@boldquot en_CA en_GB en_NZ en@quot en@shaw en_US en_US@piglatin locale.alias
--------------------
below is output from widget commands (there was none):
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newbuild:/home/dave# apt-get clean
newbuild:/home/dave# dpkg --configure -a
------------------

i then tried zhjim suggestion but it didnt recognize & said ask for help, below is output:
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newbuild:/home/dave# dpkg --reconfigure locales
dpkg: unknown option --reconfigure

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages[*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)[*].
--------------------
closest i saw was configure, tried that & got:
------------------
newbuild:/home/dave# dpkg --configure locales
dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
package locales is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
locales
------------------------

Firerat · 07-12-2013, 02:32 PM

ahh, one of those things

its actally all one command

Code:

dpkg-reconfigure locales

not dpkg --reconfigure

it looked right , even when you said it wasn't working

Oh, you will need root, so add sudo or what ever

Edit:
thought I would add a little tip, something I like to call tab spamming
spam that tab key many times while typing on bash

hidden so as not to clog ( meh, no spoiler tags )
[spoiler]

Code:

sudo dp<tab><tab>

gets you something like this

Code:

dpkg                     dpkg-genchanges          dpkg-scansources
dpkg-architecture        dpkg-gencontrol          dpkg-shlibdeps
dpkg-buildflags          dpkg-gensymbols          dpkg-source
dpkg-buildpackage        dpkg-maintscript-helper  dpkg-split
dpkg-checkbuilddeps      dpkg-mergechangelogs     dpkg-statoverride
dpkg-cross               dpkg-name                dpkg-trigger
dpkg-deb                 dpkg-parsechangelog      dpkg-vendor
dpkg-depcheck            dpkg-preconfigure        dprofpp
dpkg-distaddfile         dpkg-query               dput
dpkg-divert              dpkg-reconfigure         
dpkg-genbuilddeps        dpkg-scanpackages

and

Code:

sudo dpkg<tab><tab><tab>

Code:

sudo dpkg --
--abort-after                  --ignore-depends=              --refuse-downgrade
--add-architecture             --install                      --remove
--admindir=                    --instdir=                     --remove-architecture
--assert-multi-arch            --list                         --root=
--assert-working-epoch         --listfiles                    --search
--audit                        --log=                         --selected-only
--auto-deconfigure             --merge-avail                  --set-selections
--clear-avail                  --no-act                       --skip-same-version
--clear-selections             --no-debsig                    --status
--compare-versions             --no-force-                    --status-fd
--configure                    --no-triggers                  --status-logger=
--debug=                       --path-exclude=                --triggers
--extract                      --path-include=                --triggers-only
--force-                       --print-architecture           --unpack
--force-help                   --print-avail                  --update-avail
--forget-old-unavail           --print-foreign-architectures  --version
--get-selections               --purge                        
--help                         --record-avail

[/spoiler]

Daveb3 · 07-12-2013, 02:50 PM

thanks firerat, ill try that when i get back from errands.

also i just looked at squeeze on my other computer which is in much better condition (meaning i was able to get a login sound without a bunch of apt-get error msgs).

its /ust/share/locale has WAY more sub-dirs then the broken one including /ca/LC_MESSAGES.

Firerat · 07-12-2013, 02:58 PM

by design,
Historically locales took up alot of space, so often they were only generated for what was needed

these days it probably makes little difference as we have much more space available

I don't really understand why it is insisting on ca locales

Daveb3 · 07-12-2013, 05:54 PM

that didnt work.
ran reconfigure locales & selected everything. it installed somwe but also prodices errors like this for a lot of them:
----------------------
zh_TW.BIG5...cannot open locale definition file `zh_TW': No such file or directory
done
zu_ZA.UTF-8...cannot open locale definition file `zu_ZA': No such file or directory
done
zu_ZA.ISO-8859-1...cannot open locale definition file `zu_ZA': No such file or directory
done
-------------------------
i them ran apt-get update & apt0get -f install aga in & got same error about unable to created /ca/......

so i made the dir & ran it again. now its complaining about the /cs/... dir!

below is the terminal output of what i did after the dpkg-reconfigure locales:
-----------------
newbuild:/home/dave# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
e2fsprogs
Suggested packages:
gpart parted e2fsck-static
The following packages will be upgraded:
e2fsprogs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 440 not upgraded.
Need to get 818kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze/main e2fsprogs 1.41.12-4stable1 [818kB]
Fetched 818kB in 21s (38.6kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 124385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.41.12-2 (using .../e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ...
Replaced by files in installed package util-linux ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo'): No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
newbuild:/home/dave#
----------------------------
i then created the /ca/LC_MESSAGES/ dir & tried again & got this:
----------------------
newbuild:/home/dave# mkdir /usr/share/locale/ca/
newbuild:/home/dave# mkdir /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/

newbuild:/home/dave# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
e2fsprogs
Suggested packages:
gpart parted e2fsck-static
The following packages will be upgraded:
e2fsprogs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 440 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/818kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 124385 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace e2fsprogs 1.41.12-2 (using .../e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement e2fsprogs ...
Replaced by files in installed package util-linux ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
unable to create `/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/e2fsprogs.mo'): No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-4stable1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
newbuild:/home/dave#
-----------------------------------
at this point i rebooted & restored my squeeze backup so im back where i started.

it really makes no sense that this thing wants a bunch of foreign languages to install e2fsprogs, which is a file system, right?

another thought: is there anything i could look at on my other computer, where squeeze works, that might give me a clue as to whats wrong/missing with this one?