Re: upgrade woes
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
> On 28 Oct 2001, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
>> No. However, the same behaviour occurs after they have been both
>> upgraded.
>
> You mean this is repeatable?
What I mean is that it is repeated within the same session; i.e. even
after the new versions of apt and dpkg were installed, apt was still
requiring repeated interaction to install the next bunch of packages.
Fragments of the typescript, with line numbers added, include:
24311 (Reading database ... 73135 files and directories currently installed.)
24312 Preparing to replace dpkg 1.6.15 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.9.17_i386.de
b) ...
24313 Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
24314 Setting up dpkg (1.9.17) ...
24315
24316 (Reading database ... 73161 files and directories currently installed.)
[...]
24496 Unpacking replacement xvncviewer ...
24497 Preparing to replace apt 0.3.19 (using .../archives/apt_0.5.4_i386.deb)
...
24498 Unpacking replacement apt ...
24499 dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/state/apt/lists/partial'
: Directory not empty
24500 dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/state/apt/lists': Direct
ory not empty
24501 Setting up apt (0.5.4) ...
24502 dhelp_parse: Warning - documents in /usr/doc are no longer supported!
24503
24504
24505 (Reading database ... 75550 files and directories currently installed.)
[...now the next time apt runs it is the newer version...]
27558 416 packages upgraded, 54 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgrad
ed.
27559 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
27560 Need to get 0B/234MB of archives. After unpacking 192MB will be used.
27561 Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
[...it tries to upgrade asclock-themes, but can't yet...]
27957 (Reading database ... 76254 files and directories currently installed.)
27958 Unpacking asclock-themes (from .../asclock-themes_2.0.12-3_all.deb) ...
27959 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/asclock-themes_2.0.12-3_all.deb (--unpack):
27960 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/asclock/shaped/config', which is also in package gnome-panel-data
27961 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
27962 Preparing to replace balsa 0.6.0-1.1 (using .../balsa_0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb) ...
27963 Unpacking replacement balsa ...
27964 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/balsa_0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
27965 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-balsa2.png', which is also in package gnome-panel-data
27966 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
27967 Preparing to replace xemacs21 21.1.10-5 (using
.../xemacs21_21.4.1-2_all.deb) ...
[...eventually apt gives up and requires me to select Install again...]
28239 400 packages upgraded, 53 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
28240 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
28241 Need to get 0B/195MB of archives. After unpacking 181MB will be used.
28242 Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
[...and it tries to install asclock-themes again, and fails again...]
28295 (Reading database ... 75720 files and directories currently installed.)
28296 Unpacking asclock-themes (from .../asclock-themes_2.0.12-3_all.deb) ...
28297 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/asclock-themes_2.0.12-3_all.deb (--unpack):
28298 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/asclock/shaped/config', which is also in package gnome-panel-data
28299 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
28300 Preparing to replace balsa 0.6.0-1.1 (using .../balsa_0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb) ...
28301 Unpacking replacement balsa ...
28302 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/balsa_0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
28303 trying to overwrite `/usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-balsa2.png', which is also in package gnome-panel-data
28304 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
28305 Unpacking libefs1 (from .../libefs1_1.0.9-2_i386.deb) ...
[...and this repeats a number of times...]
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