Hi! Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what I've seen it seems like it's the correct place.
I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our production boxes: xxxxxx:~# apt-get update [this works fine] xxxxxx:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed locales: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. xxxxxx:~# apt-get -f upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1901kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work. for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and the second or third time it will just work. It's still a potato system. Any help at all appreciated. Regards, Chris. ______________________________________________________ Chris McCormick - Systems Developer - PerthWeb Pty Ltd Internet Solutions for your business! Level 9/105 St George's Tc - Perth - Western Australia Ph: (08) 9226 1366 Fax: (08) 9226 1375 Visit Perth online! : www.perthweb.com.au PGP Key = http://www.perthweb.com.au/~chris/public.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
