dpkg won't install (Internal Error)
Paul D. Smith
a few packages from woody.
I was able to download the packages, but they won't install and I don't
understand the error message:
# apt-get install php4-mysql mysql-server
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apache apache-common debconf g++ libapache-mod-perl libapache-mod-ssl libc6
libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11
libmysqlclient10 libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
locales mysql-client mysql-common php4 zlib1g
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debconf-tiny
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debconf libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11 libmysqlclient10
libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 mysql-client mysql-common
mysql-server php4 php4-mysql zlib1g
10 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 1 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/14.2MB of archives. After unpacking 11.4MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
This happened with the original dpkg in 2.2, so then I used apt-get
install dpkg to get the latest, but it still happens.
If I use -s, it does a bit more before failing:
# apt-get -s install php4-mysql mysql-server
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apache apache-common debconf g++ libapache-mod-perl libapache-mod-ssl libc6
libc6-dev libdb2 libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11
libmysqlclient10 libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
locales mysql-client mysql-common php4 zlib1g
The following packages will be REMOVED:
debconf-tiny
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debconf libdb2-util libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmm11 libmysqlclient10
libnss-db libpcre3 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 mysql-client mysql-common
mysql-server php4 php4-mysql zlib1g
10 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 1 to remove and 82 not upgraded.
Remv debconf-tiny [base-config ]
Inst libdb2-util [base-config ]
Inst libnss-db [base-config ]
Inst libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 [base-config ]
Inst libstdc++2.10-dev [base-config ]
Inst g++ [base-config ]
Inst libc6-dev [base-config ]
Inst locales [base-config ]
Inst libc6 [base-config ]
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
If this is actually an error in one of the packages, rather than dpkg
itself, it sure would be nice if it printed the package name it's having
problems with!
Anyone have any thoughts?
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A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Paul D. Smith wrote:
>I have a vanilla potato system I just installed. Now I'm trying to get
>a few packages from woody.
>
>I was able to download the packages, but they won't install and I don't
>understand the error message:
>
>If I use -s, it does a bit more before failing:
>
> # apt-get -s install php4-mysql mysql-server
> Inst libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 [base-config ]
> Inst libstdc++2.10-dev [base-config ]
> Inst g++ [base-config ]
> Inst libc6-dev [base-config ]
> Inst locales [base-config ]
> Inst libc6 [base-config ]
> E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
>
>If this is actually an error in one of the packages, rather than dpkg
>itself, it sure would be nice if it printed the package name it's having
>problems with!
>
>Anyone have any thoughts?
I installed a potato a few days ago, upgraded it to woody shortly
thereafter, and was very impressed. Today I installed another potato, and
immediately tried to upgrade it to woody, and had a similar problem. As
best I can tell, it's an issue with installing woody's libc6; that seems to
be the commonality with these two situations and in all the other messages
I found in dejanews about it.
I tried several times to get libc6 to install, strace'd the apt-get but
couldn't find a problem, and then tried to revert back to potato versions
of things.
In the process, what I ended up doing was installing potato's libc6
(actually, I think this was a later rev than initially installed with
potato, downloaded from potato/updates on security.debian.org). _Then_,
resetting the paths to woody and installing woody's libc6 _worked_. After
that, everything else seemed to go okay.
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Paul D. Smith
archives; I fixed it by force-installing debconf with dpkg, then
force-installing libc6 with dpkg, then using "apt-get -f install" to let
it fix the rest. Seems to have worked.
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