I know similar issues have been resolved, but I'm kind of stuck. I ran out of space on / partition and needed to remove some packages since apt-get remove, autoremove and clean were not able to do anything. I then apt-get update
and apt-get upgrade
-ed, but something went wrong in the process. Now, the situtation is:
apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-server linux-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-headers-server linux-server
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,996 B 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 linux-headers-server:
linux-headers-server depends on linux-headers-3.2.0-55-generic; however:
Package linux-headers-3.2.0-55-generic is not installed.
dpkg: error processing linux-headers-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-server:
linux-server depends on linux-image-server (= 3.2.0.55.65); however:
Version of linux-image-server on system is 3.2.0.56.66.
linux-server depends on linux-headers-server (= 3.2.0.55.65); however:
Package linux-headers-server is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-headers-server
linux-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So the system wants to install linux-image-server=3.2.0.56.66
though other components depend on version 3.2.0.55.65
. I tried to dpgk --remove
the package and then reinstall, but I'm stuck. From what I understand, I would need to downgrade linux-image-server, then fix dependencies, than optionally upgrade, if it is needed?