Question
apt-get update ending in Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success
- Posted on September 30, 2014
Asked by auriellecz
Hello, I have recently added node sources to my Ubuntu 14.04 droplet (the LEMP package) and today when trying to run apt-get update I’m getting following error message:
...
Ign http://apt.newrelic.com newrelic/non-free Translation-en
Get:5 https://deb.nodesource.com trusty/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en
Ign https://deb.nodesource.com trusty/main Translation-en_US
Ign https://deb.nodesource.com trusty/main Translation-en
Fetched 6,413 B in 4s (1,566 B/s)
Killed
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'test -x /usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions -i'
E: Sub-process returned an error code
The package list seems to be read but at the end there’s this error. The only sensible solution I found googling is to remove apt-show-versions package if I don’t use it. I haven’t done that yet, hoping I would find another solution.
Thanks in advance.
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What’s the memory usage on the droplet look like? My first guess would be that
apt-show-versionsis running out of memory while initializing its cache based on:If you haven’t done so yet, try adding a swap file.
It’s a bug in apt-show-versions, which is apparently fixed in the next version (0.22.9) - check out https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=912695
Im having a similar behaviour:
Suddenly im having issues with my apt upgrade
Excuting:
apt-update & apt-upgrade -y I'm getting this error:I reinstalled apt-show-versions I upgraded CPAN modules