Ubuntu apt 更新时出现报错：
Setting up base-passwd (3.5.52build1) ...
Changing home-directory of irc from /var/run/ircd to /run/ircd
1 changes have been made, rewriting files
Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd
Error making backupfile /etc/passwd.org: Invalid cross-device link
dpkg: error processing package base-passwd (--configure):
installed base-passwd package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
base-passwd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
由于是 postinst hook 阶段出现问题，想到需要检查这个 hook：
apt download base-passwd
dpkg-deb -xv base-passwd_*.deb base-passwd_extracted/
dpkg-deb -e base-passwd_*.deb base-passwd_extracted/DEBIAN
cat base-passwd_extracted/DEBIAN/postinst
发现其中有
update-passwd --verbose
这个命令。
因此，执行
sudo update-passwd --verbose
命令输出：
Changing home-directory of irc from /var/run/ircd to /run/ircd
1 changes have been made, rewriting files
Writing passwd-file to /etc/passwd
Error making backupfile /etc/passwd.org: Invalid cross-device link
这就是产生错误的原因。
要知道 update-passwd 命令会执行什么操作，使用：
sudo update-passwd --verbose --dry-run
命令输出：
Reading passwd from /usr/share/base-passwd/passwd.master
Reading group from /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master
Reading passwd from /etc/passwd
Reading shadow from /etc/shadow
Reading group from /etc/group
Changing home-directory of irc from /var/run/ircd to /run/ircd
Would commit 1 changes
由此可见，该命令执行失败的操作是
Changing home-directory of irc from /var/run/ircd to /run/ircd
因此，我手动使用 vi 命令修改：文章来源：https://www.toymoban.com/news/detail-817585.html
vi /etc/passwd
根据上面的提示，找到 irc，将对应的 /var/run/ircd 改为 /run/ircd。修改后 apt 恢复正常。文章来源地址https://www.toymoban.com/news/detail-817585.html
到了这里，关于Ubuntu `apt` 报错 “Errors were encountered while processing: base-passwd“ 的解决方法的文章就介绍完了。如果您还想了解更多内容，请在右上角搜索TOY模板网以前的文章或继续浏览下面的相关文章，希望大家以后多多支持TOY模板网！
