ssh timing out and apt-get errors

rruddock · 09-16-2013, 05:00 PM

I'm having alot of trouble with my vps, I was unfortunately on lithium (medical reasons) and somehow messed my server up, yet theres no .bash_history of it.

Any help would be appreciated.

heres the error I'm getting:
root@illmatic:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 686 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up linuxlogo (5.11-2) ...
[....] Updating the system logo...cat: /etc/issue: input file is output file
invoke-rc.d: initscript linuxlogo, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing linuxlogo (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
Errors were encountered while processing:
linuxlogo
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

heres the tail end of /var/log/aptitude
[UNCONFIGURED] apache2
[UNCONFIGURED] apache2-bin
[UNCONFIGURED] apache2-data
[UNCONFIGURED] binutils
[UNCONFIGURED] bzip2
[UNCONFIGURED] cpp-4.4
[UNCONFIGURED] dbconfig-common
[UNCONFIGURED] file
[UNCONFIGURED] gcc-4.4
The semaphore timeout period has expired.
[UNCONFIGURED] libapr1
[UNCONFIGURED] libaprutil1
[UNCONFIGURED] libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
[UNCONFIGURED] libaprutil1-ldap
[UNCONFIGURED] libbsd0
[UNCONFIGURED] libexpat1
[UNCONFIGURED] libgmp10
[UNCONFIGURED] libgomp1
[UNCONFIGURED] liblua5.1-0
[UNCONFIGURED] libmagic1
[UNCONFIGURED] libmpfr4
[UNCONFIGURED] libsqlite3-0
[UNCONFIGURED] libtinfo5
[UNCONFIGURED] libxml2
[UNCONFIGURED] linuxlogo

eklavya · 09-17-2013, 12:34 AM

Run the command

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

If this command does not solve your problem

Remove troubled packages from the file /var/lib/dpkg/status
1) First make back up of status file.

2) Search this package
linuxlogo

and remove the whole paragraph of the package, it will be appeared in the file like this.

Code:

Package: linuxlogo
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 353
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 5.11-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), lsb-base
Conffiles:
 /etc/linux_logo.conf 168d10482a20036fd79be254d0430e37
 /etc/init.d/linuxlogo c1341159da0a73ae24a94c4ad115a79e
Description: Color ANSI System Logo
 A Color ANSI Logo with some system information that can be displayed at system
 boot time or, with some local configuration, at the login prompt. Four
 different Logos are available:
 .
  * Debian Swirl(default)
  * Debian Banner
  * Tux Classic and Banner
 .
 The Classic and Banner Logos are based on Larry Ewing's Penguin. Monochrome
 ASCII versions of all the logos are included.
Original-Maintainer: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <tolimar@debian.org>
Homepage: http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/linux_logo/