apt-get permission denied

[robert rottermann]

just an Idea:
permission denied may also mean that  some script is not executable.

robert
On 09.08.2015 18:09, Jack McGee wrote:
> I am trying to update a 14.04 machine, it had a power outage, and I had to 
> reinstall mythfrontend, but all seems to be working.
>
> Now I try to upgrade and get:
>
> mythuser at ZBOX84:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   libcuda1-331 nvidia-331 nvidia-331-uvm nvidia-libopencl1-331
>   nvidia-opencl-icd-331
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   apt apt-transport-https apt-utils bsdutils dh-python firefox
>   firefox-locale-en ghostscript ghostscript-x gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gudev-1.0
>   hplip hplip-data iproute iproute2 libapt-inst1.5 libapt-pkg4.12 libblkid1
>   libgail-3-0 libgs9 libgs9-common libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common
>   libgudev-1.0-0 libhpmud0 libmount1 libmyth-python libmythtv-perl
>   libnautilus-extension1a liboxideqt-qmlplugin liboxideqtcore0
>   liboxideqtquick0 libpam-systemd libparted0debian1 libpcre3 libpcrecpp0
>   libsane-hpaio libsqlite3-0 libsystemd-daemon0 libsystemd-journal0
>   libsystemd-login0 libtag1-vanilla libtag1c2a libtagc0 libtidy-0.99-0
>   libudev1 libunity-control-center1 libuuid1 linux-libc-dev mythtv-common
>   nautilus nautilus-data oneconf oneconf-common oxideqt-codecs-extra parted
>   passwd printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-postscript-hp python-oneconf
>   python3-oneconf systemd-services ubuntu-drivers-common udev
>   unity-control-center unity-settings-daemon uuid-runtime
> 68 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
> 3 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0 B/106 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 1,903 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Setting up util-linux (2.20.1-5.1ubuntu20.6) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst: 6: 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/util-linux.postinst: update-alternatives: Permission denied
> dpkg: error processing package util-linux (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 126
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  util-linux
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
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