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)
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11-28-2009, 09:24 PM
Marius Gedminas
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)
HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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11-28-2009, 09:37 PM
Florian Diesch
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
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11-28-2009, 09:38 PM
Alan McKay
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!
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11-28-2009, 09:41 PM
Alan McKay
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.
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11-28-2009, 11:35 PM
Peter Humphrey
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.
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