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When I run sudo apt-get upgrade, the following error arises:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  mysql-client-5.5 mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server-core-5.5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  accountsservice apport apt apt-transport-https apt-utils aptitude bash bash-completion bind9-host curl dbus dmsetup dnsutils icedtea-6-jre-cacao
  icedtea-6-jre-jamvm iptables isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common language-selector-common libaccountsservice0 libapt-inst1.4 libapt-pkg4.12 libasound2
  libbind9-80 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdbus-1-3 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdns81
  libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau1a libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgnutls26 libisc83 libisccc80 libisccfg82
  liblwres80 libmysqlclient-dev libmysqlclient18 libnspr4 libnss3 libnss3-1d libplymouth2 libservlet2.5-java libssl-dev libssl-doc libssl1.0.0
  libtiff4 libtomcat6-java libudev0 libx11-6 libx11-data libx11-xcb1 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb1 libxext6
  libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 linux-libc-dev multiarch-support
  mysql-client mysql-client-core-5.5 mysql-common mysql-server nginx nginx-common nginx-full openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openssh-client
  openssh-server openssl perl perl-base perl-modules plymouth plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text python-apport python-apt python-apt-common python-mysqldb
  python-paramiko python-problem-report rsyslog tomcat6 tomcat6-admin tomcat6-common tomcat6-docs tomcat6-examples udev
112 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/88.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 204 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar was killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get --reinstall install bash, and it outputs:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  bash-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bash
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 114 not upgraded.
Need to get 616 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 kB disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main bash i386 4.2-2ubuntu2.1 [616 kB]
Fetched 616 kB in 1s (591 kB/s)
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar was killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.2-2ubuntu2.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

My problem seems to be with the bash package as alaa said.

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  • Try sudo apt-get -f install
    – douggro
    Jun 18, 2013 at 12:18
  • I tried it but the problem still persists
    – amr.negm
    Jun 18, 2013 at 12:49
  • Have you run a fsck? Could be corruption or physical damage.
    – Ken Sharp
    Dec 18, 2015 at 22:32
  • do sudo dpkg -a --configure
    – j0h
    Feb 18, 2016 at 2:44

6 Answers 6

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Your problem is with the bash package that's in the cache. Here's what you can try:

  1. Do sudo apt-get clean.
  2. Do sudo apt-get --reinstall install bash
  3. If it installs successfully, do sudo apt-get update, then do sudo apt-get upgrade.
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  • Wouldn't it be: "apt-get install' (before)" --reinstall"? or does this not matter? 'sudo aptitude apt-get install --reinstall bash'
    – DnrDevil
    Jan 18, 2016 at 2:33
  • @DnrDevil shouldn't matter.
    – Alaa Ali
    Jan 18, 2016 at 2:45
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Probably this helps:

sudo apt-get update --fix-missing

then this:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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This may be due to a broken dpkg system. Try this.

  1. sudo dpkg --configure -a
  2. sudo apt-get upgrade

I hope this helps!

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Open the Terminal and do:

sudo apt-get install -f

Then:

sudo apt-get update
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  • did not work too
    – amr.negm
    Jun 18, 2013 at 12:29
  • This fixes most problems with broken dependencies but if you read the output you see the OPs problem is not about broken dependencies.
    – derHugo
    Dec 8, 2017 at 5:46
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I had the same problem and tried dozens of solutions I have found online but nothing worked. In the end, this is what fixed it for me:

sudo touch /forcefsck

sudo shutdown -rF now

As seen here: https://askubuntu.com/a/47974

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The tar binary file is corrupted and you can validate this by running:

tar --help

and you get segmentation fault, core dumped.
you should replace the /bin/tar binary with a healthy tar file from another host.

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