I got 1-up’d
December 31st, 2008
Or something like that. For once someone told me to look it up on Google
. It was a Linux query, and since I’m not that knowledgeable on Linux, I deferred it to my brother. He asked me if he should shuffle me away from the computer, or if I would look it up on Google myself.
My error message was something in the neighbourhood of this (source):
* Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends invoke-rc.d: initscript system-tools-backends, action “start” failed.
dpkg: error processing system-tools-backends (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
system-tools-backends
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
and the fix is (source):
***TEMPORARY WORKAROUND***
After the upgrade has failed, you will get an error every time you run dpkg or apt-get saying that system-tools-backends is not configured. “sudo dpkg –configure -a” will not fix this. To recover, please perform the following 2 steps:1) sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop
2) sudo dpkg –configure -a
It seems like the problem is with installing while switching users. Now fixed. Yay!
