Ah see this is how it got like this. Search "how to fix .... " type all those commands in without understanding any of it.. ok - doesn't work... move to the next web page... repeat..
Anyway, they don't want to pay for time to do a fresh install. It's almost a management decision to allow a reboot. Installing packages manually works, but no automatic download and install anymore. The problem was initially caused by a Zentyal specific library failing (suricata). Not worth fixing. Thanks .. :-) On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd call these "configuration files", and in any case something you don't > want to just wipe out out right without a way to restore. > > Why do you propose to remove them anyway? apt-get complains about an > internal error. Your original response is identical to > http://askubuntu.com/a/337795, which someone reported to work for them > without the "rm -f". > > I'd say - try the "sudo dpkg --configure -a" by itself first. > > Back to the original question - google'ing the error comes up with threads > which indicate post-upgrade troubles. Have you gone through a major upgrade > recently? > > On 11 February 2015 at 14:21, scott <redhowlingwol...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > On 02/10/2015 09:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott <redhowlingwol...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > >> On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I > > need > > >>> to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. > > >>> > > >>> apt-get is for some reason broken. > > >>> > > >>> I get the following error message with "sudo apt-get install > > >> python2.7-dev" > > >>> or any command: > > >>> > > >>> E: Internal Error, No file name for libmount1 > > >> > > >> Try this: > > >> sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* > > >> then > > >> sudo dpkg --configure -a > > >> > > > > > > Ouch Don't! > > > > > > These are configuration files. If you want to clear this directory then > > > copy these files to another location and remove them from this > directory. > > > > > The sources.list.d directory is almost always PPA's the user has added. > > There are no configuration files in there. > > >> > > >> Scott > > >> -- > > >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
