Fixing a broken server update

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 12:17 -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Again, ctl-c. Which gets to the end. Now trying to run 'dpkg
> --configure -a', hit hangs indefinitely at:
> 
> 
>  # dpkg --configure -a
>  Setting up initramfs-tools (0.85eubuntu39.3) ...
>  update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
> 
> 
>  Setting up linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-28-server (2.6.24-28.47) ...
> 
> 
> Right now apt is completely broken. It won't do anything until this
> gets fixed. This is a server in use and I am limited what I can do
> with it. Any ideas?


Have you run fsck?




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