Package: util-linux Version: 2.29.2-1 Severity: normal When I run $(arch) at the command-line (which expands to x86_64 on my system) I then can't run apt-get. Below is what happens, the Abort is immediately after running apt-get without me entering anything on the terminal.
This was particularly confusing as I didn't realise that I had even run it, I had accidentally pasted $(arch) into the terminal and not realised that it had launched a shell with different capabilities. The following packages will be upgraded: ffmpeg ghostscript ghostscript-x libav-tools libavcodec57 libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libgs9 libgs9-common libopendkim-dev libopendkim11 libpostproc54 libswresample2 libswscale4 login openvpn passwd qemu-kvm qemu-system-arm qemu-system-common qemu-system-x86 qemu-utils screen 26 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 30.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 70.7 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Abort. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libblkid1 2.29.2-1 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libfdisk1 2.29.2-1 ii libmount1 2.29.2-1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1 ii libsmartcols1 2.29.2-1 ii libsystemd0 232-23 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libudev1 232-23 ii libuuid1 2.29.2-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii dosfstools 4.1-1 ii kbd 2.0.3-2+b1 pn util-linux-locales <none> -- debconf information excluded