My system is a Ubuntu 20.4 server install with webmin installed for the management, Icinga for supervision of problem, postfix, nodejs, apache, etc.
Normally, upgrades are done automatically, but since Jun 4, apt is failing with the following error:
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Vous pouvez lancer « apt --fix-broken install » pour corriger ces problèmes.
Les paquets suivants contiennent des dépendances non satisfaites :
grub-efi-amd64 : Dépend: grub-efi-amd64-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu44)
E: Dépendances non satisfaites. Essayez « apt --fix-broken install » sans paquet
(ou indiquez une solution).
So I tried apt --fix-broken install which returned
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
Correction des dépendances... Fait
Les paquets supplémentaires suivants seront installés :
grub-efi-amd64
Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour :
grub-efi-amd64
1 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 64 non mis à jour.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 0 o/47,3 ko dans les archives.
Après cette opération, 7.168 o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Souhaitez-vous continuer ? [O/n] O
Préconfiguration des paquets...
(Lecture de la base de données... 259242 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de .../grub-efi-amd64_2.04-1ubuntu44.1.2_amd64.deb ...
Dépaquetage de grub-efi-amd64 (2.04-1ubuntu44.1.2) sur (2.04-1ubuntu44) ...
dpkg: erreur de traitement de l'archive /var/cache/apt/archives/grub-efi-amd64_2.04-1ubuntu44.1.2_amd64.deb (--unpack) :
tentative de remplacement de « /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub », qui appartient aussi au paquet grub2-common 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
/var/cache/apt/archives/grub-efi-amd64_2.04-1ubuntu44.1.2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
any tentative of apt autoremove, apt --only-upgrade install grub-efi-amd64, apt install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64 end up with the same errors.
Reading multiple post on the web (and on this site) refers to the conflicting package, grub2-common in my case, and to remove it then run apt install -f.
But the package grub2-efi-amd64 depends on that package, and I'm a bit scared of removing this and end up with a non booting system.
I would need a confirmation of this "solution" before I try it to avoid having to reinstall my whole system as it took me a few weeks to install and configure it correctly the first time.
running apt-cache policy grub-efi-amd64 return the following:
grub-efi-amd64:
Installé : 2.04-1ubuntu44
Candidat : 2.04-1ubuntu44.1.2
Table de version :
2.04-1ubuntu44.1.2 500
500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.04-1ubuntu44 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
2.02-2ubuntu8 500
500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
the list of repository:
more /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic main restricted
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates main restricted
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic universe
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates universe
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic multiverse
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-updates multiverse
deb http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security multiverse
more /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
::::::::::::::
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/bionic-icinga.list
::::::::::::::
deb http://packages.icinga.com/ubuntu icinga-bionic main
::::::::::::::
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
::::::::::::::
deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster main
deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x buster main
::::::::::::::
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/nonfree.list
::::::::::::::
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ buster main non-free
::::::::::::::
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tk-main-xenial.list
::::::::::::::
deb http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/packages xenial main
::::::::::::::
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tk-optional-xenial.list
::::::::::::::
deb http://archive.thomas-krenn.com/packages xenial optional
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/etc/apt/sources.list.d/webmin.list
::::::::::::::
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
A strange thing I found that could maybe be a reason of the problem is that my system is not being referenced as Ubuntu but debian(had to add the debian repo to install a version of node):
o LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
The problem is that due to this problem, I can't install any update anymore.
Thanks for any confirmation/help you could provide,
Yoann.
