On 8/31/19 10:58 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
This hasn't been critical, and I've been too busy to address it before
today, but I finally have some free time, so here goes.
I've been experiencing failures when trying to run Software Updater on
Xubuntu 18.04 on my ThinkPad X200 Tablet. (Lenovo calls it a tablet,
but it's a laptop.)
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Security updates
MariaDB database server binaries
Package operation failed.
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
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There have been some other indications that something's not right.
Right now I have five USB icons on the Desktop that are grayed out.
Three of them are labeled Volume, and two of them are labeled 4.1KB
Volume.
Asking Mr. Google about it turns up a couple of Ubuntu Forum posts
from March that observe the problem, but don't resolve it:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2414983
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2415085
Looking at /var/log/apt/history.log I see a number of attempts to
install ttf-mscorefonts-installer. I remember trying to do this at the
beginning of August (08-03). As I recall, there was an issue with a
lock. I tried deleting the lock file(s) and re-running the installer.
Eventually got
Upgrade: ttf-mscorefonts-installer: amd64 (3.6ubuntu2, 3.6ubuntu2)
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
From time to time during the month there were a number of
unattended-upgrades. Some of these seem to have succeeded. Ones
related to mariadb-server-10.1:amd64:amd64 (1:10.1.40-0buntu0.18.04.1,
1:10.1.40-0buntu0.18.04.1) failed with the same error as above, Error:
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1). This unattended
upgrade thing happens every couple of days.
Another indication that something's not right is related to
gnome-sudoku. I used Synaptic to lock it to an earlier version. But
the lock is not working. And now, when I try to reinstall the old
version, I get (in the log)
Downgrade: gnome-sudoku:amd64 (1:3.28.0-1, 1:3.10.2-0buntu3.1
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So, where do I start to unravel this one? If worse comes to worse, I
can copy a few files and reinstall. But "you guys" have always said
that there should be a way to fix this from the command line. So,
before I nuke it and reinstall, I figured I'd ask.
This afternoon I ran
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Among all the rest of the lines of text I found:
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I searched on that and found an instruction to run:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Doing so produced another error,
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by
another process: Resource temporarily unavailable
sudo fuser -v /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
That told me the process that was holding things up (in this case 2160).
The answer said to sudo kill that PID. After so doing the bulk of the
errors went away, but left with a nice to understand message that
configuration of mariadb-server couldn't be done because:
Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not installed.
To install it I ran:
sudo apt update
That returned:
48 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list –upgradable' to see them.
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary/-i386/Packages' as
repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease
doesn't suppor architechture'i386'
Next ran:
sudo apt upgrade
Completed without errors.
One of the things it said it did was to install mariadb-server-10.1. It
looks like it works, but I'll confirm that later.
Now, on to fixing a few other things.
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Regards,
Dick Steffens
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