using the synapic package manager it crashes please help me

Asked by Mike

it crashes when i am trying to download the update files

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

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Mike (wd5mhz) said :
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Chris Crisafulli (itnet7) said :
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Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Chris Crisafulli (itnet7) said :
#3

Can you please open a gnome-terminal and run:
sudo apt-get update

and post any errors you receive here?

Thanks,

Chris

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Mike (wd5mhz) said :
#4

 Hello this is what i get. can you tell me how to do the bottom line

sudo apt-get update
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/multiverse Sources
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

Thanks for you time
Mike
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Chris Crisafulli (itnet7) said :
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E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. <---- Here is the error I was looking for.

Please run: sudo dpkg --configure -a

Following the advice and just running dpkg --configure -a by itself will fail without root privileges.

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Mike (wd5mhz) said :
#6

 Hello Chris,
I have tryed this and this is what i got i should also tell you this is new instlation and new to me as well
can you give me step by step on how to do this thanks

wd5mhz@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for wd5mhz:
Setting up libperl5.10 (5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libperl5.10.postinst: 7: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "}")
dpkg: error processing libperl5.10 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up libpam-runtime (1.0.1-4ubuntu5.3) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing libpam-runtime (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up perl (5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.2) ...
strict.pm did not return a true value at /usr/sbin/update-alternatives line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/update-alternatives line 7.
dpkg: error processing perl (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libperl5.10
 libpam-runtime
 perl

Mike
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> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> correct the problem. <---- Here is the error I was looking for.
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> Please run: sudo dpkg --configure -a
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> Following the advice and just running dpkg --configure -a by itself will
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Matthew Lye (matthew.lye) said :
#7

I think you have a problem with perl, not firefox, and that does look a bit like a bug.

Can you access the Synaptic Package manager in System - Administration.

If you can id suggest marking those packages for re-installation to see if that will fix the problem.

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Mike (wd5mhz) said :
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Hello this is a new install since then i have reinstalled and i have been throught this a few times it starts when i down load all the 220 update files then i tryed to only download 5 files at time and still had the problem after 3 which whould be 15 files so i am not sure

thanks for you time
Mike Henry
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> I think you have a problem with perl, not firefox, and that does look a
> bit like a bug.
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> Can you access the Synaptic Package manager in System - Administration.
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> If you can id suggest marking those packages for re-installation to see
> if that will fix the problem.
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Matthew Lye (matthew.lye) said :
#9

If its doing it on a new install something else is probably playing up too.

It might be worth cross posting your problem into the Ubuntu Forums at http://ubuntuforums.org.

There are several thousand more people on there willing to give you a hand to sort this problem out.

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