[Sheflug] Debain Etch Stable

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Does anyone know what this is about or how to fix it ?  A Google 
search doesn't seem to find the answer...

After using the Synaptic software management software to fix any 
problems and to provide updates from Debian backports I now find that 
I can't either run apt-get update or upgrade.  Neither can I install 
anything.  I've tried 'apt-get upgrade -f' to get around this but 
that doesn't work either.  Reading through the apt-get howto wasn't 
helpful.....

# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: The package linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7 needs to be reinstalled, but I 
can't find an archive for it.


# apt-get -t etch-backports upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 36.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 111MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get: 1 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main 
linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 2.6.22-5~bpo.1 [18.3MB]
Get: 2 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main 
linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7 2.6.22-5~bpo.1 [18.4MB]
Fetched 36.7MB in 5m4s (120kB/s)
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by 
another process
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package 
`linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7' missing, assuming package has no files 
currently installed.

dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package 
`linux-image-2.6.22-3-686' missing, assuming package has no files 
currently installed.
368529 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.22-3-686 2.6.22-5~bpo.1 
(using .../linux-image-2.6.22-3-686_2.6.22-5~bpo.1_i386.deb) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by 
another process
dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.22-3-686_2.6.22-5~bpo.1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by 
another process
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7 2.6.22-5~bpo.1 
(using .../linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7_2.6.22-5~bpo.1_i386.deb) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by 
another process
dpkg: error 
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7_2.6.22-5~bpo.1_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by 
another process
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.22-3-686_2.6.22-5~bpo.1_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7_2.6.22-5~bpo.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


-- 
Richard

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