apt-get upgrade returns dpkg error

Good day, I'm on a Toshiba Satellite i7 running Linux dual booting with Win10.

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root@scallion:~# id; uname -a; lsb_release -a uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) Linux scallion 4.9.0-kali4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.25-1kali1 (2017-05-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Kali Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling Release: kali-rolling Codename: kali-rolling

Repositories I'm using are:

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root@scallion:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list#deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free # For source package access, uncomment the following line #deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free # #deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib # For source package access, uncomment the following line #deb-src http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib deb http://kali.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib deb-src http://kali.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/kali kali-rolling main non-free contrib

My issue is with trying to perform a standard "apt-get upgrade" which generates a bunch of error msgs after trying to install/setup "mariadb-server-10.1". The errors are related to "dpkg"

The errors look like this:

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root@scallion:~# apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 5 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up mariadb-server-10.1 (10.1.23-8) ... dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.1 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-mysql-server: default-mysql-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1; however: Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package default-mysql-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server: mysql-server depends on default-mysql-server; however: Package default-mysql-server is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package mysql-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kali-linux: kali-linux depends on default-mysql-server; however: Package default-mysql-server is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package kali-linux (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mariadb-server: mariadb-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1 (>= 10.1.23-8); however: Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: mariadb-server-10.1 default-mysql-server mysql-server kali-linux mariadb-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As can be seen, I've tried to fix any broken installs. I've also tried to fix anything that seems wrong with mariadb-server:

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root@scallion:~# apt search mariadb-server-10.1 Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done mariadb-server-10.1/now 10.1.23-8 amd64 [installed,local] MariaDB database server binaries root@scallion:~# dpkg --configure -a Setting up mariadb-server-10.1 (10.1.23-8) ... dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.1 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-mysql-server: default-mysql-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1; however: Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package default-mysql-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mysql-server: mysql-server depends on default-mysql-server; however: Package default-mysql-server is not configured yet. . . . Errors were encountered while processing: mariadb-server-10.1 default-mysql-server mysql-server kali-linux mariadb-server

Same set of errors.

Tried a different method:

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root@scallion:~# apt-get install mariadb-server Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done mariadb-server is already the newest version (10.1.23-8). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 5 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Setting up mariadb-server-10.1 (10.1.23-8) ... dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.1 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-mysql-server: default-mysql-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1; however: Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet.

I also tried to clean up any lingering packages:

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root@scallion:/etc# apt-get autoclean Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done root@scallion:/etc# apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 5 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up mariadb-server-10.1 (10.1.23-8) ... dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.1 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of default-mysql-server: default-mysql-server depends on mariadb-server-10.1; however: Package mariadb-server-10.1 is not configured yet.

Sana isn't supported anymore. I think repository have been removed about a year or 2 ago (or more).

Get 2017.1

Sana repo is commented out

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Originally Posted by Mister_X

Sana isn't supported anymore. I think repository have been removed about a year or 2 ago (or more).

Get 2017.1

Understood.. It's already commented out, if you take another look. Thanks.

I believe I've rectified the mariadb-server problem. I first cd'd into the directory /var/lib/mysql and backed up everything in there to another directory, in my case I used /var/lib/mysqlbkup . Then I used the command:

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sudo apt-get remove --purge mysql-server mysql-client mysql-common

Then:

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sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get install mariadb-server

At which time I was informed that I needed to have the old sana repo enabled in my sources.list file.. So I did that and the update/upgrade went thru ok.

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade