Posted on in system_administration
Encountering the "cache has broken packages, exiting" error while using apt or
apt-get in Ubuntu or Debian can be frustrating, but it's often fixable. This
error occurs when the package manager finds inconsistencies in its internal
cache, preventing it from functioning properly.
This guide will delve into various methods to …
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 …
