Uninstalling the exim4 didn't solve the issue, however downgrading
base-files has solved it.
here is how to do it:
apt-get install base-files=3.1.2
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Andrei
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:07 +0200, Julien Tailleur wrote:
> Andrei Mikhailovsky a écrit :
>
> >Hello debian users,
> >
> >I am using pure64/sid. For the past week or so I am experiencing
> >upgrading problems. A lot of packages are not being updated due to
> >dependency issues. Is there a known problem that hasn't been fixed?
> >
> >---------
> >
> >apt-get dist-upgrade
> >Reading Package Lists... Done
> >Building Dependency Tree... Done
> >Calculating Upgrade... Done
> >The following packages will be REMOVED:
> > base-files bash cupsomatic-ppd deborphan foomatic-db
> >foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters
> >foomatic-filters-ppds gnome
> > gnome-desktop-environment gnome-volume-manager hal hal-device-manager
> >hotplug libplanner1-0 mailx mkrboot mysql-server udev
> >The following packages have been kept back:
> > openoffice.org-debian-files
> >The following packages will be upgraded:
> > apache2 apache2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils cupsys
> >cupsys-bsd cupsys-client exim4-base exim4-daemon-light gpm libapr0
> > libc6 libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-dev libcupsys2-gnutls10
> >libgpmg1 libnspr-dev libnspr4 libnss-dev libnss3 libscrollkeeper0
> > locales mozilla-browser mozilla-dev mozilla-firefox
> >mozilla-firefox-gnome-support mozilla-psm nscd pkg-config planner
> >scrollkeeper
> >WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed
> >This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
> > base-files bash
> >32 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >Need to get 0B/52.6MB of archives.
> >After unpacking 46.8MB disk space will be freed.
> >You are about to do something potentially harmful
> >To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
> > ?] n
> >Abort.
> >
> >-----------
> >
> >
> >Does anyone know how to fix this?
> >
> >
>
> I don't know any way to fix this, but I have the same issue here. If you
> don't need exim, just uninstalled it and everything will be fined. If
> you need exim... Then I don't know.
>
> I have uninstalled it, and am currently running
>
> libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64
>
> If I want to install exim4, it will upgrade libc6, and base-file depends to
>
> libc6 < 2.3.2.ds1-20.0.0.1.pure64
>
> which causes the trouble.
>
> Hope it may help....
>
> Julien Tailleur
>
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