I am confused by this…
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php7.1-cli : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
php7.1-opcache : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
php7.2-cgi : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
php7.2-cli : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
php7.2-curl : Depends: libcurl4 (>= 7.44.0) but it is not installable
php7.2-fpm : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
php7.2-opcache : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
php7.2-zip : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u3 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
i dont understanding how a functioning system has this issue exactly. I havent seen any errors in the logs regarding the above packages with unmet dependencies.
my virtualmin details…
Operating system Debian Linux 9
Webmin version 1.892
Usermin version 1.741
Virtualmin version 6.03
Theme version Authentic Theme 19.20-beta2
Time on system Sunday, October 14, 2018 6:20 PM
Kernel and CPU Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 on x86_64
Processor information Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.20GHz, 1 cores
System uptime 11 days, 2 hours, 28 minutes
Running processes 120
CPU load averages 0.05 (1 min) 0.03 (5 mins) 0.03 (15 mins)
Real memory 715.97 MB used / 1.62 GB total
Virtual memory 331.59 MB used / 647.86 MB total
Local disk space 8.14 GB used / 6.49 GB free / 14.64 GB total
Package updates 40 package updates are available
Package Updates List (I have "Only Updates" Selected)
google-cloud-sdk all Utilities for the Google Cloud Platform New version 220.0.0-0 Cloud-sdk-stretch
google-compute-engine all Google Compute Engine guest environment. New version 2.8.6-1 Google-compute-engine-stretch-stable
php-cgi all server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) (default) New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-cli all command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language (default) New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-common all Common files for PHP packages New version 63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-curl all CURL module for PHP [default] New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-dev all Files for PHP module development (default) New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-fpm all server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary) (default) New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-gd all GD module for PHP [default] New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-mbstring all MBSTRING module for PHP [default] New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-soap all SOAP module for PHP [default] New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-xml all DOM, SimpleXML, WDDX, XML, and XSL module for PHP [default] New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php-zip all Zip module for PHP [default] New version 7.2+63+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Stretch
php7.1-cli amd64 command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-common amd64 documentation, examples and common module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-gmp amd64 GMP module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-json amd64 JSON module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-mcrypt amd64 libmcrypt module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-mysql amd64 MySQL module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-opcache amd64 Zend OpCache module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.1-readline amd64 readline module for PHP New version 7.1.23-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-cgi amd64 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-cli amd64 command-line interpreter for the PHP scripting language New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-common amd64 documentation, examples and common module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-curl amd64 CURL module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-dev amd64 Files for PHP7.2 module development New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-fpm amd64 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (FPM-CGI binary) New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-gd amd64 GD module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-gmp amd64 GMP module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-json amd64 JSON module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-mbstring amd64 MBSTRING module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-mysql amd64 MySQL module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-opcache amd64 Zend OpCache module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-readline amd64 readline module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-soap amd64 SOAP module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-xml amd64 DOM, SimpleXML, WDDX, XML, and XSL module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
php7.2-zip amd64 Zip module for PHP New version 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1 Cosmic
python-google-compute-engine all Google Compute Engine python library for Python 2.x. New version 2.8.6-1 Google-compute-engine-stretch-stable
webmin all web-based administration interface for Unix systems New version 1.893 Virtualmin-universal
webmin-virtual-server all Webmin module for 'Virtualmin Virtual Servers' New version 6.04.gpl Virtualmin-universal
If i try to remove the broken packages, it then generates new errors…
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php-cgi : Depends: php7.2-cgi but it is not going to be installed
php-cli : Depends: php7.2-cli but it is not going to be installed
php-curl : Depends: php7.2-curl but it is not going to be installed
php-fpm : Depends: php7.2-fpm but it is not going to be installed
php-zip : Depends: php7.2-zip but it is not going to be installed
php7.2-dev : Depends: php7.2-cli (>= 7.2.11-1+ubuntu18.10.1+deb.sury.org+1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
What am i to do exactly?