dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0-0:i386 (--configure) on APT dist upgrade

Written by Claudio Kuenzler - 2 comments

Published on March 28th 2022 - Listed in Linux

After running apt-get dist-upgrade on my Linux Mint (currently version 20.2 Uma), I was surprised to see a lot of dependency errors related to a 32 bit package:

root@mintp:~# apt-get update
[...]
Preparing to unpack .../libgail-3-0_3.24.20-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgail-3-0:amd64 (3.24.20-0ubuntu1.1) over (3.24.20-0ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libgtk-3-0_3.24.20-0ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgtk-3-0:amd64 (3.24.20-0ubuntu1.1) over (3.24.20-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386:
 libglib2.0-0:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.28); however:
  Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0-0:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386:
 libglib2.0-0:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.28); however:
  Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0-0:i386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving triggers unprocessed
dpkg: dependency problems prevent processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386:
 libglib2.0-0:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.28); however:
  Package libc6:i386 is not configured yet.
[...]
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libglib2.0-0:i386
 libglib2.0-0:i386
 libglib2.0-0:i386
 libglib2.0-0:i386
 libglib2.0-0:i386
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Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Luckily this can be fixed using the following commands:

root@mintp:~# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up firefox (98.0.2+linuxmint1+una) ...
[...]
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.7) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (245.4-4ubuntu3.15) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-21) ...
Processing triggers for mintsystem (8.5.2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.4) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:i386 (2.64.6-1~ubuntu20.04.4) ...
Setting up libgtk-3-0:amd64 (3.24.20-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libgail-3-0:amd64 (3.24.20-0ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9.7) ...

and:

root@mintp:~# apt --fix-broken install

After these two commands, apt-get upgrade ran through just fine.

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Asi from wrote on Nov 9th, 2022:

Nice, thanks :)

Winston from wrote on May 31st, 2022:

Hi,
I still have this error:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libglib2.0-0:i386:
libglib2.0-0:i386 depends on libmount1 (>= 2.35.2-7~).
libglib2.0-0:i386 depends on libpcre3.
libglib2.0-0:i386 depends on libselinux1 (>= 3.1~).

dpkg: error processing package libglib2.0-0:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpango-1.0-0:i386:
libpango-1.0-0:i386 depends on libfribidi0 (>= 1.0.6).
libpango-1.0-0:i386 depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3); however:
Package libglib2.0-0:i386 is not configured yet.
libpango-1.0-0:i386 depends on libharfbuzz0b (>= 2.6.0).
libpango-1.0-0:i386 depends on libthai0 (>= 0.1.25).

dpkg: error processing package libpango-1.0-0:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386:
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.13.0).
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 depends on libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1).
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3); however:
Package libglib2.0-0:i386 is not configured yet.
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 depends on libharfbuzz0b (>= 2.6.0).
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 depends on libpango-1.0-0 (= 1.50.6+ds-2); however:
Package libpango-1.0-0:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386:
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 depends on libcairo2 (>= 1.12.10).
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 depends on libfontconfig1 (>= 2.13.0).
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62.0); however:
Package libglib2.0-0:i386 is not configured yet.
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 depends on libharfbuzz0b (>= 2.6.0).
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 depends on libpango-1.0-0 (= 1.50.6+ds-2); however:
Package libpango-1.0-0:i386 is not configured yet.
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 depends on libpangoft2-1.0-0 (= 1.50.6+ds-2); however:
Package libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
libglib2.0-0:i386
libpango-1.0-0:i386
libpangoft2-1.0-0:i386
libpangocairo-1.0-0:i386