yoshii
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sudo dpkg --configure -a taking too long

Sun Nov 20, 2016 12:53 am

Hi everyone.

I accidentally interrupted an installing application on my Rpi.
Now when I am trying to do "sudo apt-get install" I get the message that I had to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" to fix it.

And so I did. However, I think the process is taking too long. It's been running for almost 5 hrs now and it's stuck on the same line.

Is this normal? If not, how can I get "sudo apt-get install" to be working again?

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pi@raspberry:~ $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up man-db (2.7.0 2-5) ...
Updating database of manual pages ...
/usr/bin/mandb: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-name.1.gz: Killed
/usr/bin/mandb: /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE -q: Killed
/usr/bin/mandb: zcat < /usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-parsechangelog.1.gz: Killed
/usr/bin/mandb: /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE -q: Killed

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rpdom
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Re: sudo dpkg --configure -a taking too long

Sun Nov 20, 2016 7:43 am

How much space have you got available on your SD card? Those "killed" lines suggest to me that it may be running out of space to put the new files in.

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