i have tried and tried with this problem with my update manager but still have no joy, any more ideas?

“E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.”

thank you pal,

joe

i did already try that once and i got a load of information that i did not understand.

The following is the response that i got from the terminal window;

joseph@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg –configure -a
dpkg: need an action option

Type dpkg –help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*];
Use `dselect’ or `aptitude’ for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg –force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb –help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg –license|–licence for copyright licence and lack of warranty (GNU GPL) [*].

Options marked [*] produce a lot of output – pipe it through `less’ or `more’ !
joseph@ubuntu:~$

I’m afraid this is a little too tricky for me to do remedy on my own, so i think I’m gonna need some help on this one.

What do you think?

thanks in advance,

Joseph

i am having some serous problems with my update manager, every time i switch on my webbook i am confronted by some necessary updates, even if i am not connected to the web.

secondly, when i then try to donwload and install all the updates i am confronted by an error message reading as follows:

“E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run ‘dpkg –configure -a’ to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.”

there is no way of removing this message, i have tried filing with the updater settings and tried only installing some of the updates to see if there was a problem with a particular update, but with no avail.

any advice that you could offer on this problem would be wonderful.

thanks,

Joseph ohalloran

What I can offer is common sense, and an objective logical mind. I’ll usually post to anything I find interesting, or that I think I can help out with.

I agree with Alan, the more problems we solve on this blog, the less often those same problems will be re-asked. Being totally in favour of Open Source, I say we should be encouraging everybody to chip-in with their two-pence worth!

I don’t mind my email contact details being made available to those who ask, such as Alison, I’m always happy to help when and where I can, bearing in mind I also have a fulltime job.

Cheers

By the way, I installed 6 automatic updates last night (hplip and python stuff) and I am hoping that running sudo apt-get update for a second time on Tuesday following your surgical intervention last Friday did the trick. I am just waiting to see if all continues to go well in the next few days, so as not to rejoice too soon, as I have done in the past…

I am sure there must be a chronological list or schedule of (Hardy etc) Updates online somewhere that one could consult. It would also be interesting to find out a bit more about the various updates, most of which flash past without one really knowing what they are.

I still have lots of questions about Ubuntu, some of which I am gradually finding the answers to…This recent experience has at least helped me to overcome some of my initial fear of ‘invoking the terminal’….