Adept Updater Error

[Mikimike]

Adept popped up yesterday with updates. I clicked the button to download and install them, but it failed. I tried from console with apt-get update then apt-get upgrade and the results follow.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
 libxine1 libxine1-ffmpeg mencoder mplayer
The following packages will be upgraded:
 libxine1-doc ubufox
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/168kB of archives.
After unpacking 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up tzdata (2007i-0ubuntu0.7.10) ...
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tzdata
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't know where to go now, so any help is appreciated.

[dibl]

Re: Adept Updater Error

sudo dpkg --configure -a

should fix it.

Then you need to do

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install

to get current with your packages.

[Mikimike]

Re: Adept Updater Error

When i do sudo dpkg --configure -a I get

Setting up tzdata (2007i-0ubuntu0.7.10) ...
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tzdata

clean runs fine and update downloads fine, then install brings the same error again.

[dibl]

Re: Adept Updater Error

Ahhhhhh -- the famous time zone bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ta/+bug/125349


I'm not personally a victim of that one, so I will let you study it and determine what the fix for your situation is, but it appears a fix does exist. 8)

[Mikimike]

Re: Adept Updater Error

Jeff Rasmussen wrote on 2007-10-07: (permalink)

I can confirm this bug too. To fix it, I just had to change my timezone from (America/North_Dakota/Center) to (America/Chicago).

It looks like the second forward slash is not anticipated in the post installation script.

Exactly the same for me. Fix worked perfectly, Thanks dibl

[abigsky]

Re: Adept Updater Error

Thanks Dibl,

I had the problem with adept package manager getting errors and it had stopped installing packages, or updates. I ran the initial instructions you gave, and it fixed adept package manager for me.

happily I don't have the TZ issue