“E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.”

Problems:

• “E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.”
• dpkg: too many errors, stopping
  dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:252: process_queue: Assertion `!queuelen’ failed.

Solutions:

cat /etc/lsb-release
uname -a

answer:

administrator@macserv:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”Ubuntu 8.04″
administrator@macserv:~$ uname -a
Linux macserv 2.6.24-16-server #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:58:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

then:

sudo mkdir /var/run/dbus
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg –configure -a

dar padeda:

apt-get install -f

Network manager

hmm, interesting. not sure what i did that my have fixed this, but now my wired connection is downloading updates at about 800kB/s.

I removed and re-installed the network-manager.

$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome

then i set my wired connection to use a static address:
$ sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces

stuck this in there:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.203
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.1
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1

did a:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

manually entered in one of my ISP’s DNS servers:

$ sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf

stuck something similar to this in there:

nameserver x.x.x.x

do another:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

did a:

$ sudo reboot

and after the system came back up i started to run the updates and everything started to download really fast.

i don’t know if removing and re-installing network-manager had anything to do with it, perhaps not, or if setting the IP management from DHCP to static had anything to do with it either; just sharing what I did before it started working.

Remove old kernels…

to delete unneeded kernels, open synsptic and search for linux-image. Mark your older images for complete deletion. This will remove the extra files and also prurge the entry form the grub menu list. I usually leave the kernel before the one I am currently running as a type of fallback position in case something goes wrong with the current kernel.

CSNW

You will have to remove all NOVELL protocols before CSNW will automatically uninstall. To do this you will have to right-click your “Network Places” or go through the Control Panel and Network settings.

I believe you actually have to “Remove” or “Uninstall” the Novell components, I don’t think simply unbinding them will work.

Sorry if my terminology is incorrect, I use Win2K so I don’t know if stuff has been renamed in XP.

Good luck & hope this helps

Ubuntu upgrades

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes