[Bug 1960582] Re: [critical] dpkg error while processing - can't install nor upgrade

Wed Oct 19 09:07:56 UTC 2022

Hi, same here.
Steps to reproduce
apt-get udpate
apt-get upgrade
do-release-upgrade

Here are the outputs requested by @brian-murray
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Thanks @gene-weber for the workaround :-)

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfwupdplugin1 linux-headers-5.4.0-126 linux-headers-5.4.0-126-generic linux-image-5.4.0-126-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-126-generic
  linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-126-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
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The following packages will be upgraded:
  libksba8 sosreport
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 standard LTS security update
Need to get 400 kB of archives.
After this operation, 65.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 https://... focal-security/main amd64 libksba8 amd64 1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1 [95.1 kB]
Get:2 https://... focal-updates/main amd64 sosreport amd64 4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1 [305 kB] Fetched 400 kB in 0s (981 kB/s) (Reading database ... 146400 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libksba8_1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libksba8:amd64 (1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1) over (1.3.5-2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../sosreport_4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking sosreport (4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1) over (4.3-1ubuntu0.20.04.2) ...
Setting up libksba8:amd64 (1.3.5-2ubuntu0.20.04.1) ...
Setting up sosreport (4.4-1ubuntu0.20.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.9) ...

 ls -lat /var/lib/dpkg
total 1752
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Oct 19 07:46 updates
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   4096 Oct 19 07:46 .
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 710525 Oct 19 07:46 status
-rw-r-----  1 root root      0 Oct 19 07:46 lock
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 710658 Oct 19 07:46 status-old 
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 139264 Oct 19 07:46 info
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Oct 19 06:20 triggers
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Sep 21 06:09 alternatives
drwxr-xr-x 45 root root   4096 May  9 15:10 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     13 Jul 12  2021 dpkg -> /var/lib/dpkg
-rw-r-----  1 root root      0 Jul  9  2021 lock-frontend
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    268 Mar 16  2021 diversions
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    340 Mar 16  2021 diversions-old
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    100 Feb  1  2021 statoverride
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 181566 Feb  1  2021 available
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      8 Feb  1  2021 cmethopt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Mar 23  2020 parts

unlink /var/lib/dpkg/dpkg
ls -lat /var/lib/dpkg
total 1752
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root   4096 Oct 19 07:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Oct 19 07:46 updates
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 710525 Oct 19 07:46 status
-rw-r-----  1 root root      0 Oct 19 07:46 lock
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 710658 Oct 19 07:46 status-old 
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 139264 Oct 19 07:46 info
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Oct 19 06:20 triggers
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Sep 21 06:09 alternatives
drwxr-xr-x 45 root root   4096 May  9 15:10 ..
-rw-r-----  1 root root      0 Jul  9  2021 lock-frontend
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    268 Mar 16  2021 diversions
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    340 Mar 16  2021 diversions-old
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    100 Feb  1  2021 statoverride
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 181566 Feb  1  2021 available
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      8 Feb  1  2021 cmethopt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Mar 23  2020 parts

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Title:
  [critical] dpkg error while processing - can't install nor upgrade

Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  My current ubuntu version : 
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (development branch)
  Release:	22.04
  Codename:	jammy

  Issue : 
  when `sudo apt update` is ok, all newest package is downloaded
  but `sudo apt ugprade` show current error : ]

  sudo apt upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree... Done
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  The following packages have been kept back:
    librygel-renderer-2.6-2 librygel-server-2.6-2 rygel
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    bolt code deja-dup enchant-2 fwupd gdm3 gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gir1.2-nm-1.0 gir1.2-nma-1.0
    gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 gjs gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
    gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio gstreamer1.0-x initramfs-tools
    initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core iputils-ping iputils-tracepath language-pack-en language-pack-gnome-en
    libenchant-2-2 libfwupd2 libfwupdplugin5 libgdm1 libgjs0g libgstreamer-gl1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
    libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 libnl-3-200 libnl-genl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200 libnm0 libnma-common libnma0
    libpkcs11-helper1 libseccomp2 libunistring2 libunistring2:i386 libupower-glib3 media-types nano network-manager
    network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu python3-paramiko python3-software-properties simple-scan
    software-properties-common software-properties-gtk upower
  56 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
  10 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/94,6 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 1.928 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
  Extracting templates from packages: 100%
  Preconfiguring packages ...
  Setting up dpkg (1.21.1ubuntu1) ...
  head: error reading 'dpkg': Is a directory
  dpkg: error processing package dpkg (--configure):
   installed dpkg package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   dpkg
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  i have to resintall all of the package in cache with `sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
  `, but the cache sometimes is not the newest packages 
  and when i rerun `sudo apt upgrade`, there is still not the newest package

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