[SOLVED] dpkg: error processing package refind

[hughparker1]

I am using laptop Dell Vostro with Linux Mint 17.1 xfce. Laptop is 5 years old and is not using efi or uefi boot process.

Every time I run apt-get upgrade, I am getting the same error at the end of the process, here is details of the message I get ....

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hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up refind (0.8.7-0ppa2) ...
Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing EFI variables.
Try 'modprobe efivars' as root.
ShimSource is none
Installing rEFInd on Linux....
The ESP doesn't seem to be mounted! Trying to find it....
// doesn't seem to be on a VFAT filesystem. The ESP must be
mounted at //boot or //boot/efi and it must be VFAT! Aborting!
dpkg: error processing package refind (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 refind
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ 

... this message also appears when I install any new software using "sudo apt-get install" in terminal. The software installation look successful but this error message always appears at the end.

Not sure what it means, any idea?

[borto]

Paste each line below in terminal, then copy the result and post it here.

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ls -l /sys/firmware/efi
dmesg | grep -i EFI

[hughparker1]

Paste each line below in terminal, then copy the result and post it here.

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ls -l /sys/firmware/efi
dmesg | grep -i EFI

thanks for your quick reply, here is the output....

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hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ ls -l /sys/firmware/efi
ls: cannot access /sys/firmware/efi: No such file or directory
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ dmesg | grep -i EFI
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $

not much output I'm afraid. what do think?

[borto]

Sorry for the late reply, I was exhausted yesterday.

If I'm correct, command output indicates your computer is not configured for EFI like you said in OP.

Next step is to run the following lines in terminal (this will remove the troublesome package) and paste the output:

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sudo dpkg --purge refind
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo dpkg --audit
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Source (another guy had the same problem if I read correctly): https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/251180

Before you do run the above lines I would love it if someone would confirm that my thinking is correct.

[hughparker1]

If I'm correct, command output indicates your computer is not configured for EFI like you said in OP.

Next step is to run the following lines in terminal (this will remove the troublesome package) and paste the output:

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sudo dpkg --purge refind
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo dpkg --audit
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Source (another guy had the same problem if I read correctly): https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/251180

Before you do run the above lines I would love it if someone would confirm that my thinking is correct.

Thanks for taking the time to investigate my problem, it is much appreciated. I'm not an expert on linux. I would like to give it a try, but wondered if anyone else could confirm if this looks like a reasonable way forward.

[hughparker1]

Next step is to run the following lines in terminal (this will remove the troublesome package) and paste the output:

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sudo dpkg --purge refind
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo dpkg --audit
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I decided to follow your advice and entered the commands...

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hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo dpkg --purge refind
[sudo] password for hugh: 
(Reading database ... 160122 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing refind (0.8.7-0ppa2) ...
Purging configuration files for refind (0.8.7-0ppa2) ...
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo dpkg --configure -a
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo dpkg --audit
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo apt-get update 

... update output was all ok ... then sudo apt-get upgrade

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hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  efibootmgr sbsigntool
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $

... I removed the two packages indicated to be no longer required ...

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hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo apt-get autoremove efibootmgr sbsigntool
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  efibootmgr sbsigntool
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 2 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
After this operation, 453 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 159954 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing efibootmgr (0.5.4-7ubuntu1.1) ...
Removing sbsigntool (0.6-0ubuntu7) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $

now when I run apt-get upgrade, there are no errors reported....

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hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
hugh@DELL-MINT-XFCE ~ $

Your solution looks like it has resolved the errors, so thank you very much for taking the time to help me, it is much appreciated.

[zerozero]

the question that remains is, knowing that you have

I am using laptop Dell Vostro with Linux Mint 17.1 xfce. Laptop is 5 years old and is not using efi or uefi boot process.

why did you add the refind ppa >> https://launchpad.net/~rodsmith/+archive/ubuntu/refind to your system?

[bbaker6212]

I'm getting this error too. Will see if the above fixes if for me too..

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

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brad@G50-45 ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up i-nex (7.4.0+bzr887+20150112~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing package i-nex (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 6
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 i-nex
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[bbaker6212]

I removed the offending package with 'sudo dpkg --purge i-nex'
no more error messages.

this told me that it's not needed...

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sudo dpkg --audit
The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
configuring them the first time.  The configuration should be retried using
dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
 i-nex                CPU-Z Alternative for Linux. For Viewing System Device In

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sudo dpkg --purge i-nex
(Reading database ... 237284 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing i-nex (7.4.0+bzr887+20150112~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Purging configuration files for i-nex (7.4.0+bzr887+20150112~ubuntu14.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...

[vrahul]

While running this command "sudo dpkg --purge refind"
I am getting following

sudo: unable to resolve host Umrao-PC
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove refind which isn't installed

Please help me