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Sudo apt-get upgrade fails

Asked by rbbmcghee

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-firmware
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/24.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 322 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 324493 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware_1.143.6_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-firmware (1.143.6) over (1.143.3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.143.6_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin.dpkg-new' (while processing `./lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin'): Permission denied
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.143.6_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Please send us the full Terminal output of these commands:

sudo chmod -R 755 /lib/firmware

sudo chown -R root:root /lib/firmware

sudo apt-get purge linux-firmware

sudo chmod -R 755 /lib/firmware

sudo chown -R root:root /lib/firmware

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware

ls -lart /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin

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rbbmcghee (brian-casey-turner) said : 		#2

sudo chmod -R 755 /lib/firmware
chmod: changing permissions of ‘/lib/firmware/brcm’: Operation not permitted

sudo chown -R root:root /lib/firmware
chown: changing ownership of ‘/lib/firmware/brcm’: Operation not permitted

 sudo apt-get purge linux-firmware
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-generic thermald
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  linux-firmware* linux-generic* linux-image-generic* linux-signed-generic*
  linux-signed-image-generic*

udo chown -R root:root /lib/firmware
chown: changing ownership of ‘/lib/firmware/brcm’: Operation not permitted
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 86.4 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 324492 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-signed-generic (3.19.0.36.35) ...
Removing linux-signed-image-generic (3.19.0.36.35) ...
Removing linux-generic (3.19.0.36.35) ...
Removing linux-image-generic (3.19.0.36.35) ...
Removing linux-firmware (1.143.3) ...
dpkg: error processing package linux-firmware (--purge):
 cannot remove `/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac4354-sdio.bin': Permission denied
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-firmware
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

sudo chmod -R 755 /lib/firmware
chmod: changing permissions of ‘/lib/firmware/brcm’: Operation not permitted

sudo apt-get update
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com vivid InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com vivid-backports InRelease
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en
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Hit http://archive.canonical.com vivid/partner i386 Packages
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Reading package lists... Done

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-generic thermald
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-firmware
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/24.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 322 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package linux-firmware.
(Reading database ... 324481 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-firmware_1.143.6_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-firmware (1.143.6) over (1.143.3) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.143.6_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin.dpkg-new' (while processing `./lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin'): Permission denied
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.143.6_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

 ls -lart /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 269595 Nov 24 2014 /lib/firmware/brcm/bcm4329-fullmac-4.bin

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rbbmcghee (brian-casey-turner) said : 		#3

I installed 15.10, hopefully that fixes the problem.