On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:51:33AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote: > > Hello, > > I am running an older dual-opteron box with > > # cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.6.25-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.25-7) ([email protected]) > (gcc version 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23)) #1 SMP > Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2008 > > I have been getting a "2 not fully installed or removed" message > from apt-get for over a week now, with respect to udev and usbmount. > I tried > > apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false > apt-get upgrade > > and got: > > [snip] > Setting up udev (146-5) ... > error getting signalfd > Cannot start udevd. (rc=5)
here is your problem, maybe try /etc/init/udev restart and see if you
can fix the problem, if not maybe put exit 0 on the 2nd line of the init
and re run aptitude.
> dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 5
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
> usbmount depends on udev; however:
> Package udev is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing usbmount (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up gnome-themes (2.28.1-1) ...
> Setting up libexif12 (0.6.18-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> udev
> usbmount
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Any idea what is going on? How to fix it?
>
> Thanks, Don
>
>
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