apt-get upgrade failed
 

Hi all,

Ubuntu 12.04 desktop

$ sudo apt-get update$ sudo apt-get upgradeRan;
$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get autoremove

Problem still remains.

Please help. Thanks

Rgds
satimis

Files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d must have names ending in .list.

From the SOURCES.LIST(5) man page:
The workaround is to put backup files in their own directory (maybe /etc/apt/sources.list.d.bak) or to set Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently to match your backup file naming convention.

EDIT: that doesn't address the serious error "reading files list for package 'libdca0': Is a directory".

You have two file in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d, named gcl and google.OLDlist. Those files specify additional package repositories for use by APT, but APT does only use files with the extension .list and will ignore the rest. Since those files don't have the .list APT ignores them, but tells you about it. You may want to fix the extensions (just rename the files, so that they have the proper extension) or delete them, depending on if you want to actually use the repositories that are specified in those files.

EDIT: Too slow.

Hi all,

Thanks for your advice.

$ ls -la /etc/apt/sources.list.d/What shall I do with them? I couldn't recall their use.

satimis

Just have a look into them, possibly the content gives you a clue what they are for.

I couldn't recall when and for what purpose I added those files. This PC has been running for more than 18 months. It is for virtualization with Oracle VirtualBox installed.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gcl$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.OLDlist $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/the-ninja-circus-nudgeremind-precise.list IIRC most the time I got problem on running;
sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade

I have to run;
sudo aptitude update & sudo aptitude upgrade
instead.

But this time the latter didn't work.

satimis

So, with no understanding of how dpkg or apt-get (or aptitude) or Debian based repos work you have added repos you can think of no reason to have enabled.

Copy all of those entries in your /etc/sources.list.d directory to someplace else, any place else, in the unlikely case they are of any use, and then remove them from the /etc/sources.list.d directory. Or you could comment them out and leave them in place.

In the Debian package management system the sources,list is the heart of your package management because it is where the packages come from. I realize it is cool to through crap in there because some idiot with a blog recommends it. To bad they know more about writing blogs than package management.

If after a mere 18 months you don't know what this stuff is for it is probably crap.

Virtualbox is available in your repo along with all needed depends with no extra special l33t repos added to screw up your entire package management system.

Try using, as recommended, even by Ubuntu, packages available ih the official repos. If you then need something else to do what you need to do research;

A> why you need it
B> exactly what you need
C> the best, most secure, best maintained source of other packages
D> double check that the source of the package is really optimized to work with your version of Ubuntu

This is not information you are going to get from the average blog written by Ubuntu fanboys that run Win JerryLewis Pro as their production OS.

Comment each of these entries out by putting a # in from of the word deb e.g. then run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade again.

Before reading your advice performed following steps;

$ sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gcl /home/satimis/

$ sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.OLDlist /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list

$ sudo apt-get update
no complaint

$ sudo apt-get upgradeStill unable to upgrade

Also tried deleting /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
Problem still remained.

I haven't read /etc/apt/sources.list sometimes, no google entries on it.

cat /etc/apt/sources.listsatimis

Do you enjoy making things hard for yourself? Seriously commenting out is always the preferred method

Did a check on libdca0 and found it is in precise but not precise updates or precise backports so why is it trying to update it?
Of course it does because of what you have below

THey'll possibly be in the other location!

Why do you have all those virtualbox entries? You have one sure fire way to totally crash your system right there. Don't mix distros and don't mix releases. What works in Debian will often not work in Ubuntu and vice versa, furthermore Lenny and Squeeze are no longer supported (well squeeze is for a little while longer) and Hardy was out of support years ago and Lucid has dropped out of support in April this year and the list goes on. ONLY use the release that suits your system, nothing more nothing less. Remove all the other entries and clean up your sources list properly (all of them). When you have done that run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade again and let us know what happens. My gut feeling is you have a bad mismatch somewhere and it may take a little time to fix.

Hi all,

Performed following steps

$ sudo find / -name libdca0
$ sudo ls -la /usr/share/doc/libdca0
$ dpkg -l libdca0
$ ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/info/libdca0.list
$ sudo mv /usr/share/doc/libdca0 Temp_Storage/
and rename the directory as libdca0.OLD

$ sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.OLD
$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
comment out all VirtualBox repositories leaving following 2 behind
$ sudo apt-get update
No complaint

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Problem still remains

Rgds
satimis

DO you really need 2? What are you using Debian or Ubuntu? If you are using Ubuntu (which is what I thought you were using) get rid of the Wheezy entry.

Unless there is an issue reading the sources.list (all of them) or downloading package information this will be OK.

I would purge libcda0 in order to clean up the mess that it appears to be in. When this is done install the packages you are trying to install. There should be no problem with this because you already have the packages downloaded but if you do this you do it understanding the consequences if there are other underlying issues and/or you haven't got the required packages in your cache to reinstall them.

commented out;removed libdca0.list including files to /home/satimis/Temp_Storage and renamed it libdca0.list.OLD

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgradeStill failed


Edit:
I have VMs running Ubuntu 12.04 on this PC. Just checked on one VM

$ ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/info/libdca0.list libdca0.list directory is needed.

Performed;

$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/dpkg/info/libdca0.list

$ sudo apt-get upgradeStill failed

VM
$ lsb_release -a$ uname -a
satimis

Try let that install, it will hopefully download a new package, and then do your upgrade.

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall libdca0Edit:

$ sudo find / -name klibc-utils$ ls -la /usr/share/doc/klibc-utils$ ls -la /usr/share/lintian/overrides/klibc-utils $ cat /usr/share/lintian/overrides/klibc-utils
satimis

Solved
 

Hi folks,

Finally I fixed the problem as follows:-

$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.OLD20131115

$ ls -la /var/lib/dpkg/1)
$ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

delete following lines;$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

$ sudo apt-get -f install
2)
$ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

Removed following lines;$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

$ sudo apt-get -f install3)
$ sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

Again removed following lines;$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

$ sudo apt-get -f install
This time no complaint

$ sudo apt-get install klibc-utils libdirac-encoder0 krb5-locales
No complaint

Now I can run;
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

without problem

It tooks a long way to fix the problem. Otherwise I have to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04

(I found the solution on searching;
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/inde...t-1232143.html )

I have no idea how can I render into this problem. This is the Host of VirtualBox. I only run Firefox and Google Chrome on it. All works are done on VMs.

Anyway lot of thanks for your support.

A further question in case of failure, in the worst case, can I copy;
/var/lib/dpkg/*
from a Ubuntu 12.04 VM to the Host?

Rgds
satimis