Install failed with Errors were encountered while processing: acpid
I'm sure there are plenty of other packages that fail with a similar error.
I was trying to do a apt-get dist-upgrade after switching from etch to unstable. It was hanging on acpid.
Here is one of the errors I was getting,
Setting up acpid (1.0.6-5) ... tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /etc/logrotate.d/acpid*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: /var/log/acpid*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn*: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Stopping Hardware abstraction layer: hald. Loading ACPI modules.... Starting Advanced Configuration and Power Interface daemon...invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: acpid E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Anyway, after some searching, I found three commands that should remedy this situation. (Perform as root or with sudo.)
# /etc/init.d/acpid stop # dpkg --configure acpid # dpkg --configure -a
I would assume if another program was failing, you could substitute that package name for acpid in the three commands above.
I did as this guy said, and stopped acpid a couple times to make sure it stopped.
Another example
Okay, I ran into this again with libdjvulibre21. It couldn't be installed because libdjvulibre15 was installed. Basically, you remove 15 and continue the install to install 21. Below are the commands. Found at http://bugs.debian.org ».
# dpkg -P libdjvulibre15 # apt-get -f install
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-416676.html »
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