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Updating e2-micro instance fails - Debian 11

Posted on 01-01-2025 10:27 AM
ncquail
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I have a e2-micro instance running in Google Cloud. I can connect to it and it seems to be okay. However there are 30 updates that need to be applied. In the past, it's taken a while to apply updates, but it's always worked. Now, it tries to update google-cloud-cli from version 499 to 504 and it never completes. None of the other updates (python, php, etc) never get applied. When I try to run "apt upgrade", Debian tells me that dpkg was interrupted and that I need to manually run "dpkg --configure -a". I've done this a number of times - it tries to update google-cloud-cli, but never completes. I've tried restarting the VM, but that doesn't seem to make a difference in the update process - it still doesn't complete.

Has anyone else encountered something like this? Suggestions to fix it?

Thanks,

Bob

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mokit
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Could you provide more information on the following points?

  • Is the disk healthy? Is there enough available space for the system update?
  • Which package repository are you using? Is the update available for this repository?
  • Have you checked the journal or system logs when you encountered this issue?
  • To run the apt update/apt upgrade command, super user privileges are required. Does the user have those permissions?
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ncquail
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Mokit,

I don't see any errors in the logs regarding the disk. The logs were the first place I looked. There is 3.2 gigabytes available out of 10 G on the drive.

I have run the apt update/upgrade commands as the super user.

Hit:1 https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt google-compute-engine-bullseye-stable InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
Hit:4 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
Hit:5 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports InRelease
Hit:6 https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk-bullseye InRelease

30 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

Is there anything else I should look into?

Thanks,

Bob

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