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cache overflow?

Asked by dave

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

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dave (dpeckjr) said : 		#1

if found answer listed ,,but its in spanish, and my spanish isn't that good

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Lionel Montrieux (lmontrieux) said : 		#2

I guess you should file a bug against dpkg or apt, then. The complete output of the operation you were trying to do may be necessary.

And for your problem, try running 'dpkg --configure -a', as root.

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dave (dpeckjr) said : 		#3

 i was just doing a software uptdate....i also cant download any from add/remove

 i am noob and windows convert so i apologize in advance for my ignorance

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Lionel Montrieux (lmontrieux) said : 		#4

please run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' in a terminal. Paste the output here if you still have a problem.

Regards,

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dave (dpeckjr) said : 		#5

dave@the-shell:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up ubuntu-docs (7.10.5) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Setting up libkrb53 (1.6.dfsg.1-7ubuntu0.1) ...

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
dave@the-shell:~$

it freezes here

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Lionel Montrieux (lmontrieux) said : 		#6

Actually it's not freezing, it's just done.
You can now re-run your software update. You can use the graphical application under System->Adminsitration->Update manager, or run th following command in a terminal :
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

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dave (dpeckjr) said : 		#7

thank you...

that did work

could you tell me what just happened?

why did that work?

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Best Lionel Montrieux (lmontrieux) said : 		#8

Well, it looks like something went wrong during your system update. I can't tell you what exactly, since I don't have the complete output of your first update attempt, but it left dpkg in an unexpected state.
You then had to run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' in order to fix the problem. Then, you ran your update again, and it went fine.

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dave (dpeckjr) said : 		#9

alright ...i'm not sure either ..didnt do anything out of ordinary here... but thanks