This bug was originally reported 18 months ago and it now has 23 duplicates. In general, the advice has been to run
sudo dpkg --configure -a followed by at least sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade while this action seems to have corrected the problem for some users, others including my self have found that dpkg --configure -a also fails. My question is - What action must be taken to re-enable the ability to update Ubuntu after a dpkg failure that cannot be recovered with dpkg --configure. I can use neither update-manager nor apt at this point. I am running on 8.10 and got the following result from dpkg Setting up icedtea6-plugin (6b12-0ubuntu6.1) ... Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted jonat...@hippocrates:~$ sudo apt-get -f install E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. jonat...@hippocrates:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a Processing triggers for menu ... dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed. Aborted A second question is: what is being done to make the low level update code such as dpkg more robust? -- _cache->open() failed, please report https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
