On Wed 30 May 2018 at 09:24:44 (-0500), Charles Zeitler wrote: > recently synaptic pulled in initramfs-tools, as a dependency. > > it froze before fully configured, and i killed apt. > now I get the message to do "sudo dpkg --configure -a" > whenever i use apt/synaptic. > > when I try "sudo dpkg --configure -a", however, it also freezes before > finishing configuration. > > is there some way to remove initramfs-tools from the queue?
You could look at dpkg -l or apt-get check and see whether the problem lies with just the one package. If there are several, you could try dpkg --configure one by one rather than en masse. You could try reinstalling initramfs-tools with dpkg -i (might need force as it's partly done). One of the configuration steps is update-initramfs -u so it might be worth checking if there's a damaged initrd.img that's causing it to stall. Cheers, David.
