Software Updater

[Paul Gear]

On 07/17/2014 09:32 PM, Geoffrey Combes wrote:
> Sorry Paul. I wrote down exactly  as you said and then typed something 
> different and illogical.
> Here is the latest result from Terminal:
>
> geoffrey at geoffrey-desktop:~$ sudo -i
> [sudo] password for geoffrey:
> ...
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> root at geoffrey-desktop:~#
>
>
> This makes interesting reading. The error report surfaced about a week 
> ago when I tried to install a mathematical application called Octave 
> which I had previously used with an earlier version of Ubuntu. Later I 
> found the same error when updating.
> Geoff

That all looks very normal right up to the dpkg part.  Pity it doesn't 
tell you the package name it had a problem with.  What does dpkg 
--configure -a give you?

Also, check that you haven't run out of disk space (df), and inodes (df 
-i) if you're running on ext3/4 filesystems.

Paul
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