Dpkg-split error while updating

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Hello,

I am having a similar problem, with the installer telling me to report the error on the forum. Neither the GUI nor the apt-get way haver worked so far, with several reboots in the process (to see if it had any effect).

The log is in https://paste.osmc.tv/cefiguxoju if it is any help.

Thank you very much.

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You’re getting an error message that suggests a file corruption:

dpkg-split: error while loading shared libraries: dpkg-split: unsupported version 62047 of Verneed record

Please SSH to the Pi and run the command md5sum /usr/bin/dpkg-split It should be fe03e007d6b92690ca5c38c270820ed8.

Edit: I’ve also split this off into a new thread, since your problem differs from the OP’s

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If it’s never worked for you I recommend a new install on a clean SD card. Also check your power supply

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Hi,
The md5 is 05697be20d27c22c873f0300818d70dd so the package seems indeed to be corrupt. Or maybe a different version?

How can I fix this?

Thank you for your quick help!

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Fixing it might require a full reinstall since file corruptions often involve more than one file. But for now we can try to fix only dpkg-split.

The “obvious” thing to try is to reinstall the dpkg package but that might not work if it needs to run dpkg-split. :wink: But we can give it a try:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --reinstall dpkg

If that doesn’t work, Plan B involves downloading the package and extracting the file:

cd /tmp
apt-get download dpkg
dpkg -x dpkg_1.17.27_armhf.deb dpkg-files
sudo cp /tmp/dpkg-files/usr/bin/dpkg-split /usr/bin
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Thanks a lot for your help.

The second method seems to be working. The first one, as you predicted, ended in the same attorney as the upgrade.

Thanks again!

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Good to hear. If you haven’t done so already, you can try rerunning the dist-upgrade.

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I am on it, although it is taking some time as usual.