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dpkg freezes on depmod

Asked by Noam on 2008-07-29

The update manager says:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
when I run: sudo dpkg --configure -a
I get:
Setting up linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic (2.6.24-19.36) ...
Running depmod.

and then the system freezes completely, and only a "hard" boot works.
Thanks for your help,
Noam.

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2008-08-15
Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd) said : #1

try to restart and start from recovery mode and run
sudo dpkg --configure -a

Noam (noam-ugiya) said : #2

Thanks for the quick response.
I got stuck in an endless loop:
ata1.00: status {DRDY ERR}
ata1.00: error: {UNC}
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SACT 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x45
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:ff:72:58/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in
ata1.00: status {DRDY ERR}
ata1.00: error: {UNC}
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SACT 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x45
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:ff:72:58/00:00:00:00:00/e1 tag 0 dma 4096 in
... and so on.
Any ideas?

Rajkumar.R (rraj-be) said : #3

Try fsck to check your disk's and then try to install.

The command is "sudo fsck"

Noam (noam-ugiya) said : #4

fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
/dev/sda1 is mounted.

WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.

Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes

/dev/sda1: recovering journal
Clearing orphaned inode 66156 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0100600, size=4100)
Clearing orphaned inode 32656 (uid=1000, gid=1000, mode=0140755, size=0)
/dev/sda1: clean, 182426/1175040 files, 849490/4696996 blocks (check in 3 mounts)

then when I try:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

it freezes again...
depmod still stuck...

Noam (noam-ugiya) said : #5

after running: sudo fsck -c
it fixed a few bad sectors, and after resetting the system, it now says:
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory

What's the next step?

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : #6

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