# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Get: 1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B] Hit ftp://mirrors.kernel.org etch Release.gpg Hit ftp://mirrors.kernel.org etch Release Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release Hit ftp://mirrors.kernel.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit ftp://mirrors.kernel.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages have been kept back: jabber linux-image-2.6-686 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 14 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up openbsd-inetd (0.20050402-5) ... Starting internet superserver: inetdinvoke-rc.d: initscript openbsd-inetd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing openbsd-inetd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netbase: netbase depends on openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver; however: Package openbsd-inetd is not configured yet. Package inet-superserver is not installed. Package openbsd-inetd which provides inet-superserver is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-common: nfs-common depends on netbase (>= 4.24); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nfs-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postfix: postfix depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of logcheck: logcheck depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing logcheck (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ntp: ntp depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ntp (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ntp-simple: ntp-simple depends on ntp (>= 1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-2); however: Package ntp is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ntp-simple (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ppp: ppp depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pppoeconf: pppoeconf depends on ppp (>= 2.4.1.uus2-4); however: Package ppp is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing pppoeconf (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of proftpd: proftpd depends on netbase (>= 4.13); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing proftpd (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: samba depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing samba (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of smbfs: smbfs depends on netbase (>= 2.02); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing smbfs (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of swat: swat depends on samba (= 3.0.24-2); however: Package samba is not configured yet. swat depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing swat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of courier-imap: courier-imap depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however: Package exim4 is not installed. Package mail-transport-agent is not installed. Package postfix which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing courier-imap (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: openbsd-inetd netbase nfs-common postfix logcheck ntp ntp-simple ppp pppoeconf proftpd samba smbfs swat courier-imap E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)