Update Packages fails on new image

[tomsat50]

tomsat50

7. Mai 2020 at 14:02 #48731

I have created a new image of Max2Play (Stretch version) for my Raspberry Pi 2B / HiFiBerry DAC+.
The configuration has been completed includeing the prompted Max2Play update, and afterwards the installation of LMS (nightly update version).
All worked fine, and at that moment I decided to run the Raspberry update/upgrade in order to be up-to-date with the OS.
This causes problems: the upgrade is NOT completed: the web page on which the update can be followed (yellow block) stops, and the page does not refresh any more. The web page was unreachable…
I was able to shutdown the system properly by using SSH (putty) and the cmd ’sudo shutdown -h now‘.
I rebooted the Raspberry, and all looked fine, so I tried to run the update/upgrade again.
The text of the progress (yellow block) was displaying a message that the update progress was not carried out properly (did not make a screen dump of the exact message….). Then, again, I tried to run the update/upgrade and now it was started…. and stopped with some errors:

Update / Upgrade to latest Version started
Installation started – This Messages refreshes every 3 seconds to show current installation status. When finished this message disappears.

Setting up libidn11:armhf (1.33-1+deb9u1) …
Setting up libdbus-1-3:armhf (1.10.28-0+deb9u1) …
Setting up libdbus-1-dev:armhf (1.10.28-0+deb9u1) …
dpkg: error processing package apache2 (–configure):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration
Setting up systemd (232-25+deb9u12) …
addgroup: The group `systemd-journal‘ already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Setting up dbus (1.10.28-0+deb9u1) …
A reboot is required to replace the running dbus-daemon.
Please reboot the system when convenient.
Setting up systemd-sysv (232-25+deb9u12) …
Setting up dbus-x11 (1.10.28-0+deb9u1) …
Setting up libpam-systemd:armhf (232-25+deb9u12) …
Setting up dbus-user-session (1.10.28-0+deb9u1) …
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.130) …
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u4) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
apache2
Hit:1 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian stretch InRelease
Hit:3 http://pipplware.pplware.pt/pipplware/dists/stretch/main/binary InRelease
Reading package lists…
Reading package lists…
Building dependency tree…
Reading state information…
You might want to run ‚apt –fix-broken install‘ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‚apt –fix-broken install‘ with no packages (or specify a solution).
Finished – Reboot needed! Click here to Reboot Now

UPDATE ENDED – CHECK ABOVE LOG FOR ERRORS

I wonder why the update/upgrade is not carried out properly.
I have created a brand new image, and started all over….. no improvement…
The Max2Play device runs fine, but I do not feel very comfortable with probably an unstable system.
So I hope that this can be fixed with some help.

[MarioM Moderator]

MarioM Moderator

12. Mai 2020 at 14:42 #48758

Hi tomsat,

Kernel updates are always difficult and can lead to problems. You should only update if a backup of the SD card has been made beforehand or if you have no problem burning a fresh image to the SD card afterwards. As long as you don’t miss any explicit functions on your system, I don’t recommend doing a kernel update. To solve your problem you could try executing the command „apt –fix-broken install“ with our remote control plugin.

[tomsat50]

tomsat50

12. Mai 2020 at 15:42 #48766

Hello MarioM,

Thanks for your reply.
Btw, I did NOT carry out the ‚update kernel‘ (which is a separate cmd from the Raspberry Settings page).
I only selected the ‚update packages‘ which stands for apt-get update and upgrade which should be ’safe‘ in most cases…

In addition, I have carried out the „apt –fix-broken install“ as you suggested.
This has, finally, completed the update and upgrade action, I was able to re-run that commmand after the fix, and now all is OK!
Thanks for your help!