The error I get is as follows (and is still persisting even after updating apt first):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: bind9-host dnsutils libbind9-30 libisccc30 libisccfg30 linux-image-server linux-server openssh-client openssh-server The following packages will be upgraded: clamav clamav-base clamav-freshclam dbus dbus-x11 libclamav3 libdbus-1-3 libpam-smbpass libsmbclient module-init-tools passwd samba samba-common samba-doc smbclient smbfs winbind 17 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/39.4MB of archives. After this operation, 778kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up base-files (4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.3) ... chown: invalid group: `root:utmp' dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: base-files E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) How do I remove the problematic base-files package to get past this error? 'dpkg -r base-files' won't work as base-files is an essential package. -- Base-files update corrupt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292116 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
