I have been having problems with php and phpMyAdmin and now, after manually removing php, apache2 a when I install anything from the Software Centre I get a failure message.
I tried to uninstall libapache2-mod-php5 as this seems to be one of the problems: I get a failure message with the following information:
installArchives() failed: (Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-client-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-server-core-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2.2-bin' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'php5-cli' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2.2-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-server-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2-utils' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libmysqlclient18:i386' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libmysqlclient18:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'php5-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2-mpm-prefork' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libdbd-mysql-perl' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libqt4-sql-mysql:i386' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libqt4-sql-mysql:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-client-core-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
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Removing libapache2-mod-php5 ...
egrep: /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load: No such file or directory
Module php5 already disabled
Selecting previously unselected package libapache2-mod-php5filter.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-client-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-server-core-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2.2-bin' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'php5-cli' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2.2-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-server-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2-utils' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libmysqlclient18:i386' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libmysqlclient18:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'php5-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'apache2-mpm-prefork' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libdbd-mysql-perl' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libqt4-sql-mysql:i386' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libqt4-sql-mysql:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'mysql-client-core-5.5' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
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Unpacking libapache2-mod-php5filter (from .../libapache2-mod-php5filter_5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5filter (5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) ...
Error: The new file /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production does not exist!
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5filter (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | php5-cgi (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | php5-fpm (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not installed.
Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not configured yet.
Package php5-cgi is not installed.
Package php5-fpm is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up php5-mysql (5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) ...No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysql.ini with new version
cp: cannot create regular file /etc/php5/mods-available/mysql.ini: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing php5-mysql (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
libapache2-mod-php5filter
php5
php5-mysql
Error in function:
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5filter (5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) ...
Error: The new file /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production does not exist!
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5filter (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | php5-cgi (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | php5-fpm (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not installed.
Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not configured yet.
Package php5-cgi is not installed.
Package php5-fpm is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
When I cancel the failed window, the status of libapache2-mod-php5 is marked as Not Installed!
I am at the present going through each package to see if I can install them all again through the Software Centre to try and kill this error. Has anyone any idea what I have done and how I can fix it?
Update
I have now been through all the programmes which are mentioned in the error report as missing and all are installed on the system!
simon@simon-VGN-AR71E:~$ sudo aptitude remove apache2 php5 mysql-server
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apache2 mysql-server php5
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd php5-mysql phpmyadmin
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 168 kB will be freed.
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) ...
Error: The new file /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production does not exist!
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports has already been reached
Errors were encountered while processing:
libapache2-mod-php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up php5-gd (5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) ...
Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/gd.ini with new version
cp: cannot create regular file ‘/etc/php5/mods-available/gd.ini’: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing php5-gd (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of phpmyadmin:
phpmyadmin depends on php5-mysql | php5-mysqli | php5-mysqlnd; however:
Package php5-mysql is not configured yet.
Package php5-mysqli is not installed.
Package php5-mysqlnd is not installed.
dpkg: error processing phpmyadmin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) ...
Error: The new file /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production does not exist!
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | php5-cgi (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1) | php5-fpm (>= 5.4.9-4ubuntu2.1); however:
Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not configured yet.
Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not installed.
Package php5-cgi is not installed.
Package php5-fpm is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
php5-gd
phpmyadmin
libapache2-mod-php5
php5
OK, I'm down to just two packages which I am trying to remove, php5-common and php5-cli. php-cli refuses to delete and php5-common throws the error below:
rm
on system files, as that breaks the package management in a way you're seeing now. What exact commands did you run?