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I am a new Raspberry Pi user. I bought a Pi 3 recently. I installed rasbian on it by using NOOBS abd SD Card Formatter. After completing the installation i set a root password by using -- sudo passwd After getting a successesful message i tried to update the OS by using -- sudo apt-get update(it started updating without asking for user password which does't happens on ubuntu systems). Then i tried to upgrade OS by using command -- sudo apt-get upgarde

After this command i clicked yes when asked by the terminal. After starting the upgrade process i got error message which says -- mkdir: cannot create directory '/var/lib/chksshpwd/' dpkg: error processing package lib-chksshpwd:armhf (--configure) libpam-chksshpwd:armhf

Attaching the image of error which i got Complete error messege ....

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  • Have you tried removing that directory that the error message is complaining about?
    – ElefantPhace
    Mar 25, 2017 at 13:42
  • @ElefantPhace No sir i have not
    – Shantanu Nandan
    Mar 25, 2017 at 13:46

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This worked me ... Type this to terminal.

cd /var/lib  
sudo rm -fr chksshpwd  
sudo apt-get upgrade
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    I had the same problem. This indeed will solve the problem. It is exatcly what I did. One thing extra is you can use: cd /var/lib/chkpassword and then ls to check if the map is empty. Mine was so I removed it and ran sudo apt-get upgrade again!
    – Geert Berkers
    Mar 25, 2017 at 15:04
  • I tried this but the system just appears to lock and not to resolve the problem.
    – Sean Parry
    Sep 26, 2017 at 23:20

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