I have been keeping my Gutsy up-to-date. However, Today dist-upgrade reported errors on packages:
apport
apport-gtk
eog
evolution-common
gnome-panel-data
gnome-panel
synaptic
update-manager
Here is the log of apt-get dist-upgrade:
root@karoliina-laptop:/home/karoliina# apt-get update
Get:1 http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Translation-en_US
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy Release
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Packages
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Packages
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Packages
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Packages
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main Sources
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/restricted Sources
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe Sources
Hit http://fi.archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/multiverse Sources
Fetched 1B in 0s (2B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
root@karoliina-laptop:/home/karoliina# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libcurl3-gnutls
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
8 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up apport (0.90) ...
* Starting automatic crash report generation: apport [ OK ]
bad image index
The generated cache was invalid.
dpkg: error processing apport (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apport-gtk:
apport-gtk depends on apport (>= 0.41); however:
Package apport is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apport-gtk (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up eog (2.19.4-0ubuntu1) ...
bad image index
The generated cache was invalid.
dpkg: error processing eog (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up evolution-common (2.11.5-Oubuntu1) ...
bad image index
The generated cache was invalid.
dpkg: error processing evolution-common (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up gnome-panel-data (1:2.19.5-0ubuntu1) ...
bad image index
The generated cache was invalid.
dpkg: error processing gnome-panel-data (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-panel:
gnome-panel depends on gnome-panel-data (>= 1:2.19); however:
Package gnome-panel-data is not configured yet.
gnome-panel depends on gnome-panel-data (<< 1:2.20); however:
Package gnome-panel-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-panel (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up synaptic (0.60ubuntu2) ...
bad image index
The generated cache was invalid.
dpkg: error processing synaptic (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of update-manager:
update-manager depends on synaptic (>= 0.57.8); however:
Package synaptic is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing update-manager (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
apport
apport-gtk
eog
evolution-common
gnome-panel-data
gnome-panel
synaptic
update-manager
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@karoliina-laptop:/home/karoliina#
The problem appears when the setting up procedure of packages trying to run gtk-update-
It can be solved by removing an image file
sudo rm /usr/share/
and run
apt-get upgrade