PC crashed during "apt-get install"
Hey folks,
I was doing "apt-get install ntop" and something unrelated to this activity caused my PC to hang. Now I can not install it nor remove it - it is stuck in between I should mention that I've only been using Ubuntu for about a day now. I've got tonnes of experience with the Fedora / Redhat distros and decided it was time I learn something about Debian/Ubuntu. Looks like I'll accomplish that :-) I've been googling for about a half hour now but cannot find any way to correct this : root@alan-ubuntu:/usr/share/media/videos/Muppets# apt-get install ntop Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done ntop is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up ntop (3:3.3-11ubuntu1) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script: Exec format error dpkg: error processing ntop (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: ntop E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
PC crashed during "apt-get install"
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 05:01:59PM -0500, Alan McKay wrote:
> I was doing "apt-get install ntop" and something unrelated to this > activity caused my PC to hang. > > Now I can not install it nor remove it - it is stuck in between ... > root@alan-ubuntu:/usr/share/media/videos/Muppets# apt-get install ntop > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > ntop is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Setting up ntop (3:3.3-11ubuntu1) ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation > script: Exec format error Interesting. I've never seen "Exec format error" before. Looks like the crash damaged /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntop.postinst. > dpkg: error processing ntop (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ntop > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Try sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntop.postinst sudo apt-get install --reinstall ntop HTH, Marius Gedminas -- There are a lotta computer languages out there doing drugs. -- Larry Wall -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
PC crashed during "apt-get install"
Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> writes:
> Hey folks, > > I was doing "apt-get install ntop" and something unrelated to this > activity caused my PC to hang. > > Now I can not install it nor remove it - it is stuck in between > > I should mention that I've only been using Ubuntu for about a day now. > I've got tonnes of experience with the Fedora / Redhat distros and > decided it was time I learn something about Debian/Ubuntu. Looks like > I'll accomplish that :-) > > I've been googling for about a half hour now but cannot find any way > to correct this : > > root@alan-ubuntu:/usr/share/media/videos/Muppets# apt-get install ntop > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > ntop is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Setting up ntop (3:3.3-11ubuntu1) ... > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation > script: Exec format error > dpkg: error processing ntop (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > ntop > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I guess /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntop.postinst is an empty file. Run echo '#!/bin/sh'| sudo tee /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntop.postinst sudo apt-get install --reinstall ntop Florian -- <http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/pdfrecycle/> -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
PC crashed during "apt-get install"
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius@pov.lt> wrote:
> *sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntop.postinst > *sudo apt-get install --reinstall ntop You da man - that did it! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
PC crashed during "apt-get install"
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius@pov.lt> wrote: >> *sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntop.postinst >> *sudo apt-get install --reinstall ntop > > You da man - that did it! Whoops, no. ntop binary was there but the man page was empty. So I did apt-get remove ntop apt-get install --reinstall ntop and now it seems fine :-) -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
PC crashed during "apt-get install"
On Saturday 28 November 2009 22:24:09 Marius Gedminas wrote:
> I've never seen "Exec format error" before. It's bitten me several times on a Gentoo system. It meant that I was trying to execute a 32-bit bash after chrooting from a 64-bit bash, or vice-versa, or that I'd mounted the target partition without -o exec. -- Rgds Peter -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users |
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