package installation issue ...ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (> 1 package)...

[Sandor, Todd (Todd)]

Hi:

I seem to have a "broken" system where when attempting to install packages that should be able to be installed, I can not get them installed - details below.

I had sent an email on the wireshark-users email list and was told my system is broken and the I should just need to install snmp-mibs-downloader, but these don't work...

Any help resolving this would be greatly appreciated...

---
sudo apt-get install wireshark snmp-mibs-downloader
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
snmp-mibs-downloader is already the newest version.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  wireshark-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  wireshark wireshark-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 14.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 60.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe wireshark-common 1.2.7-1 [13.7MB]
Get:2 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe wireshark 1.2.7-1 [794kB]
Fetched 14.5MB in 12s (1,175kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package wireshark-common.
(Reading database ... 173004 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking wireshark-common (from .../wireshark-common_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package wireshark.
Unpacking wireshark (from .../wireshark_1.2.7-1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_CA.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up postfix (2.7.0-1) ...
adduser: No UID is available in the range 100-999 (FIRST_SYS_UID - LAST_SYS_UID).
adduser: The user `postfix' was not created.
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package default-mta is not installed.
  Package postfix which provides default-mta is not configured yet.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up wireshark-common (1.2.7-1) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.

Setting up wireshark (1.2.7-1) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libMrm.so.3 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libXm.so.3 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libUil.so.3 is not a symbolic link

Errors were encountered while processing:
 postfix
 bsd-mailx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



Part of the riginal email to wireshark users group ...

sudo apt-get install libsmi2-common
> libsmi2-dev libsmi2ldbl
>
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> Building dependency tree
>
> Reading state information... Done
....


>
> adduser: No UID is available in the range 100-999 (FIRST_SYS_UID -
> LAST_SYS_UID).
>
> adduser: The user `postfix' was not created.
>
> dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
>
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
>
> bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
>
> Package default-mta is not installed.
>
> Package postfix which provides default-mta is not configured yet.
>
> Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>
> Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
>
> dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
>
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>
> Setting up libsmi2-common (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...
>
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a
> followup error from a previous failure.
>
> Setting up libsmi2ldbl (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...
>
> Setting up libsmi2-dev (0.4.8+dfsg2-2) ...
>
> Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
>
> ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
>
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libMrm.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libXm.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>
> /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libUil.so.3 is not a symbolic link
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>
> postfix
>
> bsd-mailx
>
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>

Your system is broken, you should fix it first. Please ask for help on ubuntu users list.


Search archives, one solution does not work ...

sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for tsandor:
Setting up postfix (2.7.0-1) ...
adduser: No UID is available in the range 100-999 (FIRST_SYS_UID - LAST_SYS_UID).
adduser: The user `postfix' was not created.
dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bsd-mailx:
 bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package default-mta is not installed.
  Package postfix which provides default-mta is not configured yet.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bsd-mailx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libMrm.so.3 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libXm.so.3 is not a symbolic link

/sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib32/libUil.so.3 is not a symbolic link

Errors were encountered while processing:
 postfix
 bsd-mailx


Must be a generic problem, I get the same error on multiple different packages ...



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