Unable to update - python error

vulcan4d · Nov 27th 2020

I am unable to update my OMV4 and I have not been able to find this error in the forum. I know, I know, I really need to update to OMV5 and I do plan to but it will be a new box. Until then I want to keep this thing updated as much as possible. I tried the usual apt-clean, configure, update repositories with no luck. It seems to be complaining about Python.

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Building local package repository ...
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Ign:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Ign:6 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:7 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian stretch Release
Exception ignored in: <function WeakValueDictionary.__init__.<locals>.remove at 0x7f19d6688ae8>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/weakref.py", line 117, in remove
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Exception ignored in: <function WeakValueDictionary.__init__.<locals>.remove at 0x7f19d6688ae8>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/weakref.py", line 117, in remove
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable
Reading package lists... Done

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root@omv:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  hyperv-daemons libfreetype6 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3
  libkrb5support0 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common libmariadbclient18 libonig4
  libproxy1v5 libwbclient0 linux-libc-dev mariadb-client-10.1
  mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.1
  mariadb-server-core-10.1 php7.0 python-samba python3-lxml samba samba-common
  samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules samba-libs samba-vfs-modules tzdata
28 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/36.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 263 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 reading files list for package 'libelf1:amd64': Input/output error
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

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ryecoaaron · Nov 27th 2020

The python error is not a problem. It has been posted about many, many times. The libelf1 package is in a bad state though. I would run omv-aptclean and see if it cleans it up. Otherwise, try:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/elfutils/libelf1_0.168-1_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i libelf1_0.168-1_amd64.deb

vulcan4d · Dec 3rd 2020

Quote from ryecoaaron

The python error is not a problem. It has been posted about many, many times. The libelf1 package is in a bad state though. I would run omv-aptclean and see if it cleans it up. Otherwise, try:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/elfutils/libelf1_0.168-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i libelf1_0.168-1_amd64.deb

Thank you for lending a helping hand. I did as you said, used app-clean which didn't work followed with re-installing the libelfl package. Sadly it too has the input/output error:

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 sudo dpkg -i libelf1_0.168-1_amd64.deb
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
 reading files list for package 'libelf1:amd64': Input/output error

I'll read up on libelf1 and see if I can find a solution.

ryecoaaron · Dec 3rd 2020

Sounds as if the media your OS is installed on is starting to fail. What kind of media is it?

vulcan4d · Dec 4th 2020

It's a small 64GB SSD. Might have to run a fsck check or time to copy the OS drive to a new one just in case.

vulcan4d · Dec 4th 2020

Found the solution. Had to edit the status file to remove the broken package libelf1 then install the missing package. Strange that I could not do it manually when downloading and installing the file but heck if it works it works. Thanks!

https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1232143.html

dleidert · Dec 15th 2020

This error doesn't appear out of the blue and I have never seen a status file getting corrupted. It really sounds like an SSD with failing sectors. I recommend to check the SMART health status of the disk.

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