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Hi, I've got a cruddy little system on which I have installed Debian. To give you an idea how little I know, I can't even tell you what version. I ...
  1. 02-22-2006 #1
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    rrrrrr. Debian apt all shplocked up.

    Hi,

    I've got a cruddy little system on which I have installed Debian. To give you an idea how little I know, I can't even tell you what version. I do actually have a CS degree, and I've been mucking around with computers since 1980, but I just haven't had a Debian job yet so I'm a little short on details.

    I can tell you that every time I run apt-get upgrade or aptitude I get this message that "sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly" and I know enough to know that this isn't enough information to solve this, but can someone tell me what logfiles or readme files to look at, and maybe what kind of entries to expect in the logs so I can figure out what's wrong with the thing? If there's a FAQ somewhere, I'll take a pointer to that, I'll look at all the howto's and whatnot's, but I'd like to see if anyone can provide some focus early on.

    I appreciate any help you can give. Thanks.

    John
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    What happens when you run dpkg directly? Like try installing a .deb file manually:
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    dpkg --install foo.deb
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    Killed. Hmm.
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    What's killed?
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    That's what I get. I typed "dpkg --install /.../pdfkit.framework_0.8...i386.deb, the system sits for a while and then I get a line that just says "Killed" and I get the prompt. I also just tried the --debug=10 option and got the same thing. Weird.
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    Anyone else looked at this?
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    the logfile will be at
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    /var/log/dpkg.log
    you may also try
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    apt-get -f install
    or
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    apt-get --purge remove pdfkit.framework
    and then try to reinstall that program
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    Thanks - but it still broke

    Hi,

    Thanks for the tip, but I get the same result, Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly. I'll keep looking around, if you have any other suggestions I'm happy to try them.

    John
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  9. 03-08-2006 #9
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    Figured (guessed?) what was wrong

    It appears my dpkg installation was actually broken, so no installs were working and all for different reasons. Very strange-looking problem. The safety procedure I'm putting in place is to re-install dpkg every two weeks.

    Thanks for the help folks.

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