I was doing dist-upgrade to my system, but something didn't work as expected, and I also was running the upgrade while doing some other work.
Result python 3 got messed up and I can't run apt updates and cant upgrade the system
Error message:
dpkg: error processing package python3 (--configure): package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
Käsittelyssä tapahtui liian monta virhettä: python3
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)My commandline history:
276 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 277 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 278 sudo apt autoremove 279 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 280 man apt 281 man dist-upgrade 282 sudo do-release-upgrade 283 /usr/bin/python3 284 sudo do-release-upgrade 285 sudo rm /usr/bin/python 286 sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python 287 sudo do-release-upgrade 288 sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python 289 sudo do-release-upgrade 290 sudo update-alternatives --remove-all python 291 sudo update-alternatives --remove-all python3 292 sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3 293 sudo do-release-upgrade 294 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 295 sudo do-release-upgrade 296 sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends python3 297 sudo apt-get -f install 298 sudo do-release-upgrade 299 sudo apt-get update 300 sudo apt-get upgrade 301 sudo apt-get reinstall python3 302 man apt-get 303 sudo apt-get install python3 --reinstall 304 sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python 305 sudo apt-get install python3 --reinstall 306 sudo do-release-upgrade 307 history 308 update-manager 309 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade 310 sudo apt-get install python3 311 sudo apt-get reinstall python3 312* sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstr 313 sudo dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq python3 && sudo apt-get install python3Now I do not remember anymore what I was actually doing, as this happened before my vacation, and now three weeks later I don't remember anymore what actually happened leading to this situation.
What should I do here?
21 Answer
I got it fixed by running sudo apt install --reinstall python3 python python3-minimal --fix-broken
Results of sudo apt install --reinstall python3 python python3-minimal --fix-broken:
282 sudo apt-get --reinstall python3 283 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 284 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 285 man apt-get 286 apt list --installed 287 apt list --installed |grep python 288 apt list --installed |grep python > installed.python.txt 289 ls list* 290 ls inst* 291 less installed.python.txt 292 pwd 293 ls -l `which python` 294 which python3 295 which python 296 ls -la /usr/bin/python 297 history 298 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 299 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python 300 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 301 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3-minimal 302 sudo apt-get install --fix-broken 303 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python 304 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 305 sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3-minimal 306 sudo apt-get install --fix-broken 307 sudo apt autoremove 308 sudo apt-get update 309 sudo apt-get upgrade 310 sudo rebootNow everything is working as expected.
