wireguard-dkms

Hello,

I had an error connecting to my VPN. So I ran update/upgrade…

Hours later it froze at 51%.

Rebooted, wasn’t able to get into GUI stuck in a boot loop (blinking cursor/ mouse pointer? Tried going into previous versions (installs) same problem.

Tried finsihing upgrading in non GUI, froze again at 5%.

Rebooted go into GUI.
I tried every single command line I could find.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get upgradable
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt-get upgrade --force
sudo apt autoremove

sudo apt remove wireguard-dkms --purge && sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt update -y

sudo apt-get install wireguard
sudo apt-get remove wireguard
apt show wireguard
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt update && apt upgrade && reboot

Nothing works :frowning: it says Wireguard is broken (very unstable) blablabla. I tried removing /updating in Synaptic Manager as well. It never shows any progress. I keep killing apps that prevent me from updating. If i try to re-install my VPN’s app says required to be installed wireguard-dkms.

Please any help would be great.

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sudo apt-get upgrade can break you system.

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Meanwhile, Wireguard’s installation website says to install while at a root prompt.

#apt install wireguard

Thanks for the reply. Note taken for the future. This is what I get after:

sudo parrot-upgrade

dpkg: error processing package wireguard-dkms (–configure):
package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
reinstall it before attempting configuration
Errors were encountered while processing:
wireguard-dkms
failed to fix interrupted upgrades
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
wireguard-dkms
Recommended packages:
wireguard
The following packages will be upgraded:
wireguard-dkms
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/254 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs…
(Reading database … 668366 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/wireguard-dkms_1.0.20201221-1_all.deb …

Progress: [ 0%] […]

It hangs forever at 0%. I guess it’s broken… :frowning:

Yeah, probably better to start from scratch if that’s not too inconvenient. Then after a parrot-upgrade, see if you can install wireguard successfully. If not, then let us know. :slight_smile:

DISTRIB_ID=Parrot
DISTRIB_RELEASE=4.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=“Parrot 4.10”
PRETTY_NAME=“Parrot GNU/Linux 4.10”
NAME=“Parrot GNU/Linux”
ID=parrot
ID_LIKE=debian
VERSION=“4.10”
VERSION_ID=“4.10”
HOME_URL=“https://www.parrotsec.org/


Linux parrot 5.9.0-2parrot1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.9.6-2parrot1 (2020-11-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux


Info I meant to post originally ^^^
So I’m making a backing up, in hopes of starting clean install.

Thanks for your help

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