Problem installing updates/new packages

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I’m running OSMC on several machines, and on two of them I have issues installing and updating packages.

I’ll happily provide more info when needed.

Here’s output from one machine that I’ll like to try and fix first.

osmc@Sovrum:~/RPi.GPIO-0.5.11$ sudo apt-get install python-dev

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following additional packages will be installed:

libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev python2.7-dev

The following NEW packages will be installed:

libexpat1-dev libpython-dev libpython2.7-dev python-dev python2.7-dev

The following packages will be upgraded:

libexpat1

1 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.

Need to get 0 B/28.2 MB of archives.

After this operation, 36.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

/usr/bin/dpkg: error while loading shared libraries: hd-linux-armhf,so.?: cannot open shared object 
file: No such file or directory

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (127)

osmc@Sovrum:~/RPi.GPIO-0.5.11$

I tried:

osmc@Sovrum:~/RPi.GPIO-0.5.11$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

dpkg: error while loading shared libraries: hd-linux-armhf,so.?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

osmc@Sovrum:~/RPi.GPIO-0.5.11$
2

I suspect that the SD card might be corrupted here. First recommendation is to backup everything you can right now.

3

Hmm, could be, had a few power-outages during thunder storms here a few weeks back.

Nothing really that hard to reconfigure, so a backup doesn’t feel that necessary. Do you think I should reinstall or try something else first?

4

It is hard to speculate what else may be corrupted.
I would try running: sudo touch /forcefsck and reboot. This will force OSMC to check filesystem integrity on boot. But it may not resolve your issue

5

Do they both exhibit the same error?

6

Tried this and rebooted, ended up in a crash at boot loop

I’ll replace the SD-card and reinstall

@dillthedog

hmm… just tried the same commands on the other machine and it worked, I might have mistaken it for the bad one, similar ip 121, and 120