Re: Upgrade Problems
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:38:09AM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I haven't been able to upgrade my own Debian testing workstation with
> KDE 3.xx desktop since about February. Decided to upgrade it
> yesterday and did the usual 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade'.
> At this point APT said this to me.......
>
> " 785 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 684 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 522MB of archives.
> After unpacking 15.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y "
>
> I hit return and sat back with a mug of tea :) At the end of the
> download the following message came up on the screen...
>
> " Fetched 522MB in 2h38m59s (54.7kB/s)
> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the
> essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This
> is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the
> APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs ".
>
> As far as I know removal of e2fsprogs kills the complete system.
It includes fsck and is a dependency of libc6 and initscripts, is why.
> I'm using the 2.6.8 kernel to boot the machine. Thought I should
> explain that. Does anyone know what to do to complete the upgrade
> without killing the complete system altogether ? I don't want to go
> any further without consulting someone else.
Have you tried the alternate methods using aptitude discussed in the
release notes?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-upgrading_aptitude
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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