Posted on in System Administration
The Cache has broken packages, exiting message is one of those Debian and
Ubuntu package manager errors that looks vague until you remember how many
moving parts are involved. apt has repository metadata, downloaded package
archives, dependency resolution, and a dpkg database underneath it. When one of
those layers is …
Posted on in system_administration
I've been getting the following error from cron.daily in my inbox lately:
/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Cache has broken packages, exiting
That's an annoying email to get everyday. I decided I would apt-get clean and
that would probably fix the problem:
$ sudo apt-get clean
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package …Posted on in System Administration
We run several (read: hundreds) of servers that are still running Debian 6 (Squeeze).
A few months ago, we started seeing the following errors coming from the daily
apt cronjob: "WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!" When
running apt-get update the following errors dump out:
$ apt-get update
W: GPG …Posted on in System Administration
I stumbled across this problem when a daily cronjob on one of our Debian servers complained about this. A lot. If you run across this on one of your systems, there is a quick fix.
In our case, it turned out that /usr/bin/mandb could not read /etc/passwd …
