package manager broken

[Tom H]

On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Paul Tremblay <ptrembl at amazon.com> wrote:
> On 05/30/13 12:36, staticsafe wrote:
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:31:49PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
>>> On 05/30/13 12:20, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> cd ; grep -E 'LANG|LC' .bash_login .bash_profile .bashrc .profile
>>>> 2>/dev/null
>>>
>>>  From the first command:
>>>
>>> default/locale:LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
>>> default/locale:LANGUAGE="en_US:"
>>>
>>> The second command returned nothing.
>>
>> Can you try?
>>
>> # sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
>> Select en_US.UTF-8 and select ok.
>> Try your apt-get operation again.
>
> I don't get the ability to select any language when I run sudo
> dpkg-reconfigure locales. I get this output:
>
>  de_AT.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   de_BE.UTF-8... up-to-date
>   de_CH.UTF-8... up-to-date
> ....
> *snip*
> Generation complete
>
>  sudo apt-get -f install
>
> gives this message:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
>   language-pack-kde-nl-base language-pack-kde-de-base kde-l10n-de
> kde-l10n-ga kde-l10n-es kde-l10n-fr kde-l10n-nl kde-l10n-pl
>   linux-headers-3.2.0-35 linux-headers-3.2.0-36 linux-headers-3.2.0-37
> linux-headers-3.2.0-38 language-pack-kde-fr-base
>   linux-headers-3.2.0-37-generic language-pack-kde-es-base
> language-pack-kde-ga-base linux-headers-3.2.0-35-generic
>   language-pack-kde-de language-pack-kde-ga language-pack-kde-en
> language-pack-kde-es language-pack-kde-fr language-pack-kde-nl
>   language-pack-kde-pl kde-l10n-engb linux-headers-3.2.0-38-generic
> language-pack-kde-en-base language-pack-kde-pl-base
>   linux-headers-3.2.0-36-generic
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   mysql-server
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   mysql-server
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/11.6 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server:
>  mysql-server-5.5 (5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) breaks mysql-server (<<
> 5.5.31-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) and is installed.
>   Version of mysql-server to be configured is 5.5.29-0ubuntu0.12.04.2.
> dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup
> error from a previous failure.
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mysql-server
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

So we went off on a tangent with the locale error...

apt-cache show mysql-server-5.5

apt-cache policy mysql-server-5.5

Do you still get this error if you install the "74 not upgraded"?

Is your dpkg/apt database up-to-date?

ls /var/cache/apt/archives/*mysql*