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When I first installed Debian 10, I installed Win 10 in a 
virtual machine using KVM/QEMU and everything just worked. I 
could copy/paste between host and vm and access host disks 
in the vm. And zfs file systems worked.

The main problem was that dpkg would kill the system trying 
to setup
linux-image-4.19.0-18-amd64.

I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to Debian 10.11. 
That process managed  to install linux-image-4.19.0-19-amd64 
and everything was fine. Then somewhere in the process of 
installing additional software apt? killed the system trying 
to setup linux-image-4.19.0-20-amd64. (I found out that I 
could do dpkg --configure for each package individually and 
skip the linux image and headers.)

And, now I can't copy/paste between host and vm, can't 
access host disks from the vm, and the zfs file system 
doesn't work! And then because dpkg killed the system so 
many times the archive file is locked somehow and the 
various apt(x) programs and dpkg won't run, so I can't 
install any tools or different software to try and fix the 
problems!!

ARGHHH!

If anybody has any hints or tips or pointers toward any 
possible solutions I would appreciate hearing them!

TIA,
Dennis

PS; dpkg says;

> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. 
> W: Could not lock the cache file; this usually means that dpkg or another apt tool is already installing packages.  Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved!

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  Re: What happened? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2022-04-17 04:40 +0200
    Re: What happened? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-17 05:10 +0200
      Re: What happened? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2022-04-17 07:30 +0200
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          Re: What happened? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-04-17 23:30 +0200
            Re: What happened? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-04-18 01:50 +0200
  Solved (partially) Re: What happened? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2022-04-21 20:40 +0200
    Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2022-04-22 00:20 +0200
      Re: Solved (partially) Re: What happened? Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2022-04-23 04:50 +0200

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