Ran out of disk space in /var/... canceled dist-upgrade, resulting with:
Extracting templates from packages: 100% Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure): package base-files is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited') Errors were encountered while processing: base-files E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ouch!
So what to do... looking in /var/lib/apt/status:
Package: base-files Essential: yes Status: install ok triggers-awaited Priority: required Section: admin Installed-Size: 432 Maintainer: Santiago VilaArchitecture: amd64 Version: 4.0.5 Replaces: base, miscutils Provides: base Depends: base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4) Pre-Depends: awk Conffiles: /etc/debian_version c3a1f14e3cfb4e2a815ff14692258219 /etc/host.conf 4eb63731c9f5e30903ac4fc07a7fe3d6 /etc/issue c5b47f7de972ac3f083cc6349bcb23db /etc/issue.net ad006ab49199770f760dac332209cb27 Description: Debian base system miscellaneous files This package contains the basic filesystem hierarchy of a Debian system, and several important miscellaneous files, such as /etc/debian_version, /etc/host.conf, /etc/issue, /etc/motd, /etc/profile, /etc/nsswitch.conf, and others, and the text of several common licenses in use on Debian systems. Triggers-Awaited: man-db
Going to re-install man-db:
dpkg -P man-db apt-get install man-db apt-get dist-upgrade
Yes! It worked! :-)
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