Re: aptitude update crashes (fwd)

[Don Montgomery]

Hello,

I am running an older dual-opteron box with

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.25-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.25-7)
(maks@...) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease)
(Debian 4.1.2-23)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2008

I have been getting a "2 not fully installed or removed"
message from apt-get for over a week now, with respect to
udev and usbmount.  I tried

apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
apt-get upgrade

and got:

[snip]
Setting up udev (146-5) ...
error getting signalfd
Cannot start udevd. (rc=5)
dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 5
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
  usbmount depends on udev; however:
   Package udev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing usbmount (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up gnome-themes (2.28.1-1) ...
Setting up libexif12 (0.6.18-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  udev
  usbmount
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any idea what is going on?  How to fix it?

Thanks, Don


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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:51:33AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:

> I am running an older dual-opteron box with
>
> # cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.25-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.25-7) (maks@...) (gcc
> version 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 14
> 11:05:23 UTC 2008
>
> I have been getting a "2 not fully installed or removed" message from
> apt-get for over a week now, with respect to udev and usbmount.  I tried
>
> apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
> apt-get upgrade
>
> and got:
>
> [snip]
> Setting up udev (146-5) ...
> error getting signalfd
> Cannot start udevd. (rc=5)
> dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 5
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
>  usbmount depends on udev; however:
>   Package udev is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing usbmount (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up gnome-themes (2.28.1-1) ...
> Setting up libexif12 (0.6.18-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  udev
>  usbmount
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Any idea what is going on?  How to fix it?

No idea why udev is upset, although perhaps it doesn't like that ancient
kernel.  Even stable is using 2.6.26 after all, so most likely no one
cares if 2.6.25 works anymore, since no debian release has ever been
made with it and certainly never will.

Anything in /var/log in syslog or daemons that indicates why udevd
won't start?

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[Alex Samad]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:51:33AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I am running an older dual-opteron box with
>
> # cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.25-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.25-7) (maks@...)
> (gcc version 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23)) #1 SMP
> Mon Jul 14 11:05:23 UTC 2008
>
> I have been getting a "2 not fully installed or removed" message
> from apt-get for over a week now, with respect to udev and usbmount.
> I tried
>
> apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
> apt-get upgrade
>
> and got:
>
> [snip]
> Setting up udev (146-5) ...
> error getting signalfd
> Cannot start udevd. (rc=5)

here is your problem, maybe try /etc/init/udev restart and see if you
can fix the problem, if not maybe put exit 0 on the 2nd line of the init
and re run aptitude.

> dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 5
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
>  usbmount depends on udev; however:
>   Package udev is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing usbmount (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up gnome-themes (2.28.1-1) ...
> Setting up libexif12 (0.6.18-1) ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  udev
>  usbmount
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> Any idea what is going on?  How to fix it?
>
> Thanks, Don
>
>

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[Don Montgomery]

Lennart,

I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30, and ran apt-get
update/upgrade again, and everything ran to completion
with no errors.

Thanks very much, I had not realized my kernel was so
"ancient" ;-)

Don

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:51:46 +0000
> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...>
> To: Don Montgomery <donm@...>
> Cc: debian-amd64@...
> Subject: Re: aptitude update crashes (fwd)
>
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 07:51:33AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
>> I am running an older dual-opteron box with
>>
>> # cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 2.6.25-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.25-7) (maks@...) (gcc
>> version 4.1.3 20080623 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-23)) #1 SMP Mon Jul 14
>> 11:05:23 UTC 2008
>>
>> I have been getting a "2 not fully installed or removed" message from
>> apt-get for over a week now, with respect to udev and usbmount.  I tried
>>
>> apt-get update -o Acquire::Pdiffs=false
>> apt-get upgrade
>>
>> and got:
>>
>> [snip]
>> Setting up udev (146-5) ...
>> error getting signalfd
>> Cannot start udevd. (rc=5)
>> dpkg: error processing udev (--configure):
>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 5
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
>>  usbmount depends on udev; however:
>>   Package udev is not configured yet.
>> dpkg: error processing usbmount (--configure):
>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>> Setting up gnome-themes (2.28.1-1) ...
>> Setting up libexif12 (0.6.18-1) ...
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  udev
>>  usbmount
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> Any idea what is going on?  How to fix it?
>
> No idea why udev is upset, although perhaps it doesn't like that ancient
> kernel.  Even stable is using 2.6.26 after all, so most likely no one
> cares if 2.6.25 works anymore, since no debian release has ever been
> made with it and certainly never will.
>
> Anything in /var/log in syslog or daemons that indicates why udevd
> won't start?
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>

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[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:12:14AM -0600, Don Montgomery wrote:
> I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30, and ran apt-get update/upgrade again,
> and everything ran to completion with no errors.
>
> Thanks very much, I had not realized my kernel was so "ancient" ;-)

Excellent.

I just had a suspicion udev didn't like that old kernel anymore.

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