Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

[bturrie]

The upgrade stopped part way through. It reported a problem with tzdata and then quit. Adept shows that util-linux-locales is installed but broken.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the broken package using apt-get and that failed. It told me to try "apt-get -f install" with no packages. That failed too it said that there was an error processing "dpkg (--configure) that returned exit status 10"

the error happened while processing tzdata

The system still boots, but it looks a lot like I'm still running feisty. I haven't tried much so I don't know what all is broken

[dibl]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

You might try

sudo dpkg --configure -a

I had some issues yesterday, and that seemed to fix it.

[RevNomad]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

That seemed such a fine simple idea...so I tried it. Nope. I received the following error message:

^[[Anorman@norman-laptop:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for norman:
Setting up tzdata (2007f-3ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
tzdata
norman@norman-laptop:~$

Sincerely hoping for suggestions.
NTP

[dibl]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

Hmmmmmmmm. That is a time zone package - I think it is a Java app, maybe. So, we have learned you do have a problem with your package management system. Not a good thing.

Here's what I found:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...es/+bug/123366

You're not a Kiwi, are you?

Also: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/tzupdat...31_README.html

I dunno -- this is the type of issue that could just "go away" as Gutsy matures for release in 10 days. It's not fatal at the moment, but you can't run *buntu forever with a broken package manager, so I'd say just live with it for a couple of weeks and see if it is taken care of automatically. Keep trying to run your Gutsy updates. Sorry I can't give you a more elegant solution.

EDIT: One more thing to try:

sudo apt-get -f upgrade

[lowey23]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

Just as a matter of interest, if you want to see which version of Kubuntu you are running, type (in Konsole)

lsb_release -a

At least you will know if you are in Feisty or Gutsy.

And dibl, don't be picking on the Kiwis. That's a job for us Aussies.

[dibl]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

Just as a matter of interest, if you want to see which version of Kubuntu you are running, type (in Konsole)

lsb_release -a

or

uname -a

And dibl, don't be picking on the Kiwis. That's a job for us Aussies.

and a hard duty it must be -- you can keep the job!

[lowey23]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

and a hard duty it must be -- you can keep the job!

[eriefisher]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

I also struggled with the Gutsy update. The installer failed several times but it did manage to get all the files and changed the sources.list. After I saw this I just kept apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. Occasionally a dpkg -configure -a and also apt-get install -fix-broken.

I mostly used synaptic to get everything down and installed and it's been updating ever since. Everytime I look there is another update to come down. The system seems stable so I will carry on.

eriefisher

[dibl]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

Everytime I look there is another update to come down. The system seems stable so I will carry on.

It does seem to have settled down a lot in past 2 or 3 days. (I'm crossing my fingers and touching wood now ...). 8)

[RevNomad]

Re: Gutsy--sort of--installed. Good thing it's a test machine

I came back to clarify I have precisely the same error message. Plus I now have 470 upgrade packages which will not install. Uh, how do I get rid of those?
NTP

The upgrade stopped part way through. It reported a problem with tzdata and then quit. Adept shows that util-linux-locales is installed but broken.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the broken package using apt-get and that failed. It told me to try "apt-get -f install" with no packages. That failed too it said that there was an error processing "dpkg (--configure) that returned exit status 10"

the error happened while processing tzdata

The system still boots, but it looks a lot like I'm still running feisty. I haven't tried much so I don't know what all is broken