apt-get dist-upgrade errors

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:25:59 +0000
Oliver Marshall <oliver.marshall at g2support.com> wrote:

> Hi chaps,
> 
> I'm trying to run an update to our Ubuntu server using "sudo apt-get
> dist-upgrade". I'm getting the following errors;
> 
> Unpacking replacement passwd ...
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server_5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Is there anyway to find out what the cause of the error is and how to
> resolve it?
> 
> Olly
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You can look in /var/log/dist-upgrade and /var/log/dmesg for errors.
They may have something that will help.

good luck,

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