E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

[GordonSmith]

apt-get upgrade AND initscripts - DPKG crashes

The following extra packages will be installed:
  initscripts
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  initscripts
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 92.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 294 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main initscripts armhf 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 [92.1 kB]
Fetched 92.1 kB in 0s (122 kB/s)
Create a snapshot of '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@' in '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@btrfs-auto-snap_apt-run-2013-11-27-0706'
Delete subvolume '/tmp/btrfs-snap/root/@btrfs-auto-snap_apt-run-2013-11-26-1259'
@btrfs-auto-snap_apt-run-2013-11-27-0706, 1 created snapshots, 1 destroyed snapshots, 0 warnings.
Selecting previously unselected package initscripts.
(Reading database ... 31304 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking initscripts (from .../initscripts_2.88dsf-41+deb7u1_armhf.deb) ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly

[Iri-Dium]

This seems to be a 256 Rpi issue - do a search and reduce GPU_MEM upgrade and then put it back

[Iri-Dium]

This seems to be a 256 Rpi issue - do a search and reduce GPU_MEM upgrade and then put it back

[GordonSmith]

That worked (its in /boot/config.txt) - not ideal.

[mk01]

there is xbian-update in version 1.0.2-11 at http://xbian.brantje.com/pool/devel/main/x/xbian-update/xbian-update_1.0.2-11_armhf.deb to test which should solve this issue. try installing using this steps

sudo -i
cd /tmp
wget http://xbian.brantje.com/pool/devel/main/x/xbian-update/xbian-update_1.0.2-11_armhf.deb
dpkg -i xbian-update_1.0.2-11_armhf.deb

if the process will fail, do this before

sudo -i
rm /etc/sysctl.d/xbian.conf
reboot

[mk01]

of course please report back

[GordonSmith]

This appears to work (installing some xbian-package-*) now!

[mk01]

thanks for report . other users reported also this as being resolved with ver -11. closing the issue.

it it would reappear in any way later, feel free to re-open.

[jeroenh]

The current image on the frontpage still has this issue, could you add a notice pointing here, or describing the fix for those affected?

[mk01]

It needs to be fixed.

Current image on front-page you mean that page http://www.xbian.org/download/ and that link? (bottom on the page as

Raw XBian image files can be downloaded below. XBian 1.0 Beta 2

) ?

[jeroenh]

yes, somewhere that people see it before they start using it, and are made aware of the current workaround.

[mk01]

image will be updated today. thanks for notifying us.

[lucacome]

With xbian-update 1.0.2-12d I have this problem "[ 224.726444] Out of memory: Kill process 1647 (dpkg) score 128 or sacrifice child" installing almost every package...