I had the same issue with different packages (namely texlive-related packages) during a distribution update from 16.10 to 17.04, resulting in an incomplete upgrade. After a couple hours of trying to fix the issues, I finally suspected Sophos, and disabling/enabling on-access scanning worked around the problem.
This bug is not only related to libreoffice-commons but to other packages as well, but unfortunately I didn't note what packages they were. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454668 Title: Failed to upgrade/reinstall libreoffice-common Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: A few days ago I noticed a problem during a normal apt-get upgrade - the libreoffice-common package failed to install: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xslt/import/spreadsheetml/spreadsheetml2ooo.xsl.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted Initially I assumed it was a download problem so I cleaned the cache and retried. I also checked disc space: 12GB free, inodes 1035169 free. I removed libreoffice entirely (purge) and reinstalled. Up to then, libreoffice was working, after the reinstallation failed with the same error it was not there. I noted there were two systems with the same problem, both i386, and three systems without the problem, two 64bit, and one i386. I haven't tried the purge/reinstall on the second system because one system with no office software is already one too many. I've followed the instructions on: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure and the Terminal output follows: allan@finwhale:~$ ubuntu-support-status Support status summary of 'finwhale': You have 9 packages (0.5%) supported until February 2016 (9m) You have 29 packages (1.5%) supported until February 2015 (9m) You have 1815 packages (94.3%) supported until May 2019 (5y) You have 34 packages (1.8%) supported until May 2017 (3y) You have 0 packages (0.0%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded You have 37 packages (1.9%) that are unsupported Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see more details allan@finwhale:~$ cat /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch cat: /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch: No such file or directory allan@finwhale:~$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures allan@finwhale:~$ sudo grep -R proxy /etc/apt/* [sudo] password for allan: allan@finwhale:~$ grep proxy /etc/environment allan@finwhale:~$ echo $http_proxy allan@finwhale:~$ echo $ftp_proxy allan@finwhale:~$ grep proxy /etc/bash.bashrc allan@finwhale:~$ grep proxy ~/.bashrc allan@finwhale:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf cat: /etc/apt/apt.conf: No such file or directory allan@finwhale:~$ sudo fuser -vvv /var/lib/dpkg/lock allan@finwhale:~$ sudo fuser -vvv /var/cache/apt/archives/lock allan@finwhale:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS" allan@finwhale:~$ uname -a Linux finwhale 3.13.0-44-generic #73-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 00:23:46 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux allan@finwhale:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock allan@finwhale:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock allan@finwhale:~$ sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock allan@finwhale:~$ sudo cp -arf /var/lib/dpkg /var/lib/dpkg.backup allan@finwhale:~$ allan@finwhale:~$ sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status-bad allan@finwhale:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status || sudo cp /var/backups/apt.extended_states.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status allan@finwhale:~$ sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/available-bad allan@finwhale:~$ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/available allan@finwhale:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/updates/* allan@finwhale:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists allan@finwhale:~$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin allan@finwhale:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists allan@finwhale:~$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/apt/lists/partial allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get clean allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get autoclean Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --purge autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: The package libreoffice-common needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it. allan@finwhale:~$ allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing update -o APT::Cache-Limit=100000000 Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg [933 B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release [58.5 kB] Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release [63.5 kB] Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [63.5 kB] Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages [1348 kB] Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe i386 Packages [5866 kB] Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse i386 Packages [134 kB] Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en [762 kB] Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en [102 kB] Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en [4089 kB] Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main i386 Packages [503 kB] Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages [277 kB] Get:15 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [12.1 kB] Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main Translation-en [244 kB] Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en [6148 B] Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en [143 kB] Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main i386 Packages [256 kB] Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe i386 Packages [101 kB] Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse i386 Packages [3846 B] Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en [136 kB] Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse Translation-en [1679 B] Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en [56.8 kB] Fetched 14.2 MB in 34s (416 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done allan@finwhale:~$ allan@finwhale:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-java-common: libreoffice-java-common depends on libreoffice-common; however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-java-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb: libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb depends on libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:4.2.8~); however: Package libreoffice-java-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-core: libreoffice-core depends on libreoffice-common (>> 1:4.2.8); however: Package libreoffice-common is not installed. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-uno: python3-uno depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package python3-uno (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-math: libreoffice-math depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-math (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-impress: libreoffice-impress depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-impress (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice: libreoffice depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. libreoffice depends on libreoffice-impress; however: Package libreoffice-impress is not configured yet. libreoffice depends on libreoffice-math; however: Package libreoffice-math is not configured yet. libreoffice depends on libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:4.2.8~); however: Package libreoffice-java-common is not configured yet. libreoffice depends on python3-uno (>= 4.0~); however: Package python3-uno is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-writer: libreoffice-writer depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-writer (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-base-core: libreoffice-base-core depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-base-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-gnome: libreoffice-gnome depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-base: libreoffice-base depends on libreoffice-base-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-base-core is not configured yet. libreoffice-base depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-sdbc-firebird: libreoffice-sdbc-firebird depends on libreoffice-core; however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-sdbc-firebird (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-report-builder-bin: libreoffice-report-builder-bin depends on libreoffice-base; however: Package libreoffice-base is not configured yet. libreoffice-report-builder-bin depends on libreoffice-core; however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-report-builder-bin (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-pdfimport: libreoffice-pdfimport depends on libreoffice-core; however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-pdfimport (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer: libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer depends on libreoffice-core; however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-gtk: libreoffice-gtk depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-gtk (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-base-drivers: libreoffice-base-drivers depends on libreoffice-core; however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-base-drivers (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-draw: libreoffice-draw depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-draw (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libreoffice-calc: libreoffice-calc depends on libreoffice-base-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-base-core is not configured yet. libreoffice-calc depends on libreoffice-core (= 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2); however: Package libreoffice-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libreoffice-calc (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-core python3-uno libreoffice-math libreoffice-impress libreoffice libreoffice-writer libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-base libreoffice-sdbc-firebird libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-pdfimport libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-draw libreoffice-calc allan@finwhale:~$ sudo dpkg --clear-avail allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libreoffice-common Suggested packages: libreoffice-style-crystal libreoffice-style-hicontrast libreoffice-style-oxygen libreoffice-style-sifr libreoffice-style-tango The following packages will be upgraded: libreoffice-common 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 20 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 19.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 76.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libreoffice-common all 1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2 [19.9 MB] Fetched 19.9 MB in 14s (1392 kB/s) (Reading database ... 201450 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) over (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xslt/import/spreadsheetml/spreadsheetml2ooo.xsl.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/share/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice/program/': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '/var/lib/libreoffice': No such file or directory Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get --fix-missing install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. allan@finwhale:~$ LANG=C;sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=100000000 && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty InRelease Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates InRelease Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security InRelease Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release.gpg Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates Release [63.5 kB] Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security Release [63.5 kB] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main i386 Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe i386 Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse i386 Packages Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/main Translation-en Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty/universe Translation-en Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main i386 Packages [503 kB] Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages [277 kB] Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [12.1 kB] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/main Translation-en Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main i386 Packages [256 kB] Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe i386 Packages [101 kB] Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse i386 Packages [3846 B] Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/main Translation-en Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/multiverse Translation-en Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en Fetched 1281 kB in 13s (96.4 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. allan@finwhale:~$ find /etc/apt -name '*.list' -exec bash -c 'echo -e "\n$1\n"; cat -n "$1"' _ '{}' \; /etc/apt/sources.list 1 # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Release i386 (20140722.2)]/ trusty main restricted 2 3 # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to 4 # newer versions of the distribution. 5 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main 6 7 ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the 8 ## distribution. 9 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates main 10 11 ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 12 ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any 13 ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. 14 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty universe 15 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates universe 16 17 ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 18 ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 19 ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 20 ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu 21 ## security team. 22 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty multiverse 23 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-updates multiverse 24 25 ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as 26 ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes 27 ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. 28 ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review 29 ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. 30 31 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main 32 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe 33 deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse 34 35 ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's 36 ## 'partner' repository. 37 ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the 38 ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. 39 # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner 40 # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner 41 42 ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party 43 ## developers who want to ship their latest software. 44 # deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main 45 # deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main allan@finwhale:~$ -------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for any help getting libreoffice reinstalled and updated. 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