{"id":1059,"date":"2013-02-19T17:38:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2013-02-19T17:38:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T22:38:36","slug":"apt-get-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/2013\/02\/apt-get-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Apt-get Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had just done apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade<\/code> when I saw something that made me cringe:<\/p>\n

No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
\n Errors were encountered while processing:
\n initramfs-tools
\n plymouth
\n linux-image-3.2.0-38-generic-pae
\n ubuntu-minimal
\n plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text
\n linux-image-generic-pae
\n linux-generic-pae
\n mountall
\n upstart
\nE: Sub-process \/usr\/bin\/dpkg returned an error code (1)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well that’s not the exact error – I ended up seeing “disk out of space” among other issues. Basically the \/root filled up and it broke my apt-get upgrade right in the middle of updates. No good.
\nSo I go to \/boot and clean up the older kernel files – just make sure you delete the “abi”, the “config”, the “initrd”, the “System.map”, the “vmcoreinfo”, the “vmlinuz” etc all with the same version number.<\/p>\n

Then I went about reinstalling the packages. Unfortunately since some of the packages were already installed prior to running out of space, the dependencies were a little off.<\/p>\n

apt-get install -f<\/code> was no help:<\/p>\n

You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
\nThe following packages have unmet dependencies:
\n initramfs-tools : Depends: initramfs-tools-bin (< 0.99ubuntu13.1~) but 0.99ubuntu13.1 is installed\nE: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And I didn’t want to have to restore this beast since the last full backup was over 2 months ago. So I had to carry on.<\/p>\n

First I noticed that initramfs-tools needed the bin installed, but the bin was too new for initramfs-tools to utilize and therefore could not update even via –configure. Chicken and egg?<\/p>\n

So then I looked up what versions were available so that I could downgrade:
\napt-cache showpkg initramfs-tools-bin<\/code><\/p>\n

Versions:
\n0.99ubuntu13.1 (\/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) (\/var\/lib\/dpkg\/status)
\n Description Language:
\n File: \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages
\n MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8
\n Description Language: en
\n File: \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en
\n MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8<\/p>\n

0.99ubuntu13 (\/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages)
\n Description Language:
\n File: \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages
\n MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8
\n Description Language: en
\n File: \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_i18n_Translation-en
\n MD5: 14e601bd8c0a0905d238d89be3036fa8\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ok, so this was getting easier. All I have to do is install the older version. I had to look it up since it generally doesn’t happen too often:
\napt-get install initramfs-tools-bin=0.99ubuntu13<\/p>\n

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
\n initramfs-tools-bin
\n0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From there I run the following:
\napt-get dist-upgrade<\/code>
\napt-get autoremove<\/code>
\napt-get autoclean<\/code>
\nreboot<\/code><\/p>\n

Profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had just done apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade when I saw something that made me cringe: No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already Errors were encountered while processing: initramfs-tools plymouth linux-image-3.2.0-38-generic-pae ubuntu-minimal plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text linux-image-generic-pae linux-generic-pae mountall upstart E: Sub-process \/usr\/bin\/dpkg returned an error code (1) Well that’s not the exact error – … Continue reading Apt-get Woes<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it.thelibrarie.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}