Problem with dpkg-preconfigure, how to correct?

Question

I want to know how to extract data from this list.

Response
[
{
    "CCTID": "46204",
    "Name": "Christopher Columbus",
    "CarrierId": 64239
},
{
    "CCTID": "46208",
    "Name": "Keith Bowles",
    "CarrierId": 64239
},
{
    "CCTID": "46205",
    "Name": "Michael Jordan",
    "CarrierId": 64239
},
{
    "CCTID": "46207",
    "Name": "NESV PH",
    "CarrierId": 64239
}
]

How can I group this data to per driver and access the following data like a list. For example. List of drivers. Driver[0]["CCTID"] returns "46204", Driver[0]["Name"] returns "Driver[0]["CCTID"] returns "46204" Driver[0]["CarrierId"] returns "64239" so on and so forth. Any ideas? Thanks!

Solution 1

First, remove Teamviewer with:

sudo dpkg -r teamviewer7

Then run

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -f install

Solution 2

I just ran into this issue and fixed it just now. I made three mistakes:

First, I downloaded it, attempted to install it and I realized my archive manager wasn't working properly. Next, when I tried to remove the package, the root user couldn't access dpkg, so I deferred the uninstall. Third was the worst: I restarted. By restarting Ubuntu 12.04, the OS was stuck booting forever just as you describe.

Fortunately, I had a copy of Finnix 103: http://www.finnix.org/. After a bit of analysis on the hard drive partition, I realized that bash, dash and sh have been deleted from the /bin directory. So, I copied them over from the Finnix installation:

# mount <ubuntu_partition> /mnt/linux
# cp /bin/bash /mnt/linux/bin/bash
# cp /bin/dash /mnt/linux/bin/dash
# cp /bin/sh /mnt/linux/bin/sh

At this point, I could use dpkg again while using chroot on my Ubuntu partition. I noticed again, however, that apt-get was insisting to remove dash again upon each command. So, I reinstalled dash:

# apt-get install dash

Finally, I restarted my computer and booted up into Ubuntu 12.04 just fine. I inspected the package history and these were my results:

All events at 5:28 PM were when I blindly executed the recommended TeamViewer 7 installation commands to get into an online meeting:

$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_linux.deb
$ sudo apt-get -f install

At this point, I didn't want any more of TeamViewer. So to clean up further, I purged teamviewer7:i386 using dpkg:

$ sudo dpkg --purge teamviewer7:i386
$ sudo apt-get remove teamviewer7:i386 

In conclusion, the TeamViewer 7 i386 version for Linux removes /bin/dash which is the root of all the symptoms from the terminal failure, to the dpkg failure to the boot failure.

Comments

[Shobhit Puri]

What have you tried?

[Luke Villanueva]

I tried converting it to string. Using String s = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()); But I can't extract the data the way I wanted it to be.

[Raghunandan]

@ljpv14 what did you try to extract the data. did you try parsing the response? if you search on so you will find many similar posts

[Eric Wilson]

I'll upvote, but not accept, because I have no way of confirming. Things got worse from here, to where I had no working terminal, and then couldn't boot. I reinstalled.

[Robert]

This command won't work because bash, dash and sh have been deleted. So, root won't be able to access it; the evidence is here: E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true returned an error code (100) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true

[Luke Villanueva]

+1 for supplying what I really need. Works like a charm! Thanks!