On 07/17/2014 09:32 PM, Geoffrey Combes wrote:
Sorry Paul. I wrote down exactly as you said and then typed something different and illogical.Here is the latest result from Terminal:geoffrey@geoffrey-desktop:~$ sudo -i [sudo] password for geoffrey: ... Preconfiguring packages ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) root@geoffrey-desktop:~#This makes interesting reading. The error report surfaced about a week ago when I tried to install a mathematical application called Octave which I had previously used with an earlier version of Ubuntu. Later I found the same error when updating.Geoff
That all looks very normal right up to the dpkg part. Pity it doesn't tell you the package name it had a problem with. What does dpkg --configure -a give you?
Also, check that you haven't run out of disk space (df), and inodes (df -i) if you're running on ext3/4 filesystems.
Paul
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