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Installation & Upgrade => System upgrading => Topic started by: galen on September 22, 2017, 02:43:38 PM

Title: Problem with MergeList
Post by: galen on September 22, 2017, 02:43:38 PM
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing iron (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/sparkylinux.org_repo_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened


found one topic on forum, did not help.

tried to repair with
sudo dpkg --configure -a
exits ok
but error remains

purged /var/lib/apt/lists
that did not resolve

any ideas?
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: pavroo on September 22, 2017, 07:36:33 PM
Somebody reported me similar problem with iron package too.
Will try to re-pack it tonight so wait until tomorrow.
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: pavroo on September 23, 2017, 11:26:04 AM
Refresh package list and try again now.
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: galen on October 03, 2017, 03:57:49 PM
E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
E: Error occurred while processing iron (NewVersion2)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/sparkylinux.org_repo_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

package upgrade is still broken
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: pavroo on October 03, 2017, 05:45:36 PM
Check here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/30072/how-do-i-fix-a-problem-with-mergelist-or-status-file-could-not-be-parsed-err
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: galen on October 03, 2017, 06:50:08 PM
I tried the upgrade path again,
now getting this error.
I'll check Ubuntu link as well

Setting up unattended-upgrades (0.98) ...
Failed to start unattended-upgrades.service: Unit unattended-upgrades.service failed to load: Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status unattended-upgrades.service' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript unattended-upgrades, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package unattended-upgrades (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Errors were encountered while processing:
unattended-upgrades
N: Ignoring file '50unattended-upgrades.ucf-dist' in directory '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: galen on October 03, 2017, 07:11:45 PM
I removed the .dist-ucf file and retried the upgrade

Setting up unattended-upgrades (0.98) ...
Failed to start unattended-upgrades.service: Unit unattended-upgrades.service failed to load: Invalid argument. See system logs and 'systemctl status unattended-upgrades.service' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript unattended-upgrades, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package unattended-upgrades (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: pavroo on October 03, 2017, 07:50:24 PM
Debian bugs:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/365882/debian-failed-to-stop-unattended-upgrades-service
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: galen on October 14, 2017, 05:00:11 AM
Quote from: pavroo on October 03, 2017, 07:50:24 PM
Debian bugs:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/365882/debian-failed-to-stop-unattended-upgrades-service

sorry, that did not work
Title: Re: Problem with MergeList
Post by: galen on October 14, 2017, 03:32:40 PM
Im going to wipe my sparky install.
do you want my var-log tar gz for trouble shooting archives?