Você tem arquivos de bloqueio mentindo?
Procure /etc/passwd.lock e /etc/shadow.lock em particular.
Se eles estiverem lá, remova-os, talvez um visudo antigo tenha caído ou algo assim.
Sempre que tento atualizar ou instalar programas, recebo a mensagem "Falha na operação do pacote".
Veja o que está escrito na seção de detalhes:
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(Reading database ... 242146 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gparted ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Setting up couchdb-bin (1.0.1-0ubuntu17) ...
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: '/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb -g couchdb -s /bin/bash -u 116 couchdb' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing couchdb-bin (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of desktopcouch:
desktopcouch depends on couchdb-bin (>= 0.10.0-0ubuntu3); however:
Package couchdb-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing desktopcouch (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of desktopcouch-ubuntuone:
desktopcouch-ubuntuone depends on desktopcouch (= 1.0.8-0ubuntu1); however:
Package desktopcouch is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing desktopcouch-ubuntuone (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
couchdb-bin
desktopcouch
desktopcouch-ubuntuone
Error in function:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Setting up couchdb-bin (1.0.1-0ubuntu17) ...
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: '/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb -g couchdb -s /bin/bash -u 116 couchdb' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing couchdb-bin (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of desktopcouch:
desktopcouch depends on couchdb-bin (>= 0.10.0-0ubuntu3); however:
Package couchdb-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing desktopcouch (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of desktopcouch-ubuntuone:
desktopcouch-ubuntuone depends on desktopcouch (= 1.0.8-0ubuntu1); however:
Package desktopcouch is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing desktopcouch-ubuntuone (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Eu também tentei fazer isso, mas ainda recebi um erro:
joshua@Oneiric:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
[sudo] password for joshua:
Setting up couchdb-bin (1.0.1-0ubuntu17) ...
useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later.
adduser: '/usr/sbin/useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb -g couchdb -s /bin/bash -u 116 couchdb' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing couchdb-bin (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of desktopcouch:
desktopcouch depends on couchdb-bin (>= 0.10.0-0ubuntu3); however:
Package couchdb-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing desktopcouch (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of desktopcouch-ubuntuone:
desktopcouch-ubuntuone depends on desktopcouch (= 1.0.8-0ubuntu1); however:
Package desktopcouch is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing desktopcouch-ubuntuone (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
couchdb-bin
desktopcouch
desktopcouch-ubuntuone
alguma ideia sobre o que está errado e como consertar isso? Aparentemente, tem algo a ver com couchdb-bin, desktopcouch e desktopcouch-ubuntuone
Você tem arquivos de bloqueio mentindo?
Procure /etc/passwd.lock e /etc/shadow.lock em particular.
Se eles estiverem lá, remova-os, talvez um visudo antigo tenha caído ou algo assim.
Há algo muito errado com sua máquina (ou com os pacotes, mas como não vi muitos relatórios sobre o pacote, presumo que seja sua máquina).
O que está falhando é adduser . Essa é uma parte essencial do sistema. Eu procuraria por algo seriamente quebrado, como uma leitura /etc/ , ou nenhuma /proc/ ou algo assim.