Re: backports dist-upgrade issue (udev breaks consolekit)
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Olivier Langella wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:02:42 +0100
> Jens Schüßler <jgs@trash.net> wrote:
>
> > * Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Olivier Langella <olivier.langella@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
> > > > I am using Debian stable with wheezy-backports and I had a
> > > > dist-upgrade issue today.
> > > [...]
> > > > udev : Breaks: consolekit (< 0.4.6-1) but 0.4.5-3.1 is installed.
> > > [...]
> > > > Several people in my lab had also this problem and some were in
> > > > serious trouble because they've lost their desktop.
> > > > Does someone has noticed this issue somewhere else ?
> > > > What can I do to help this to be resolved ?
> > >
> > > As you mention dist-upgrade I wonder: did you configure APT to upgrade
> > > all packages to the version in wheezy-backports? By default you should
> > > only get packages from there if you explicitly specify that you want to
> > > use the backports distribution for it.
> > >
> > > So udev should not get upgraded to 204-7~bpo70+1 by default.
> >
> > That's what I also suspect, something wrong with the pinning.
> > A normal at-get/aptitude dist-upgrade here never want to install the udev
> > from backports. Beside the fact that safe-upgrade and full-upgrade are
> > the recommended command options nowadays.
> > I can only reproduce this whole behaviour here, if I do a explicit
> > 'aptitude -t wheezy-backports install udev -s'.
> >
> > Jens
> Thank you all for these explanations,
>
> Indeed, I have explicitly set a high priority to the backports :
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release a=wheezy-backports
> Pin-Priority: 900
This is completly unsupported and against all recommendations. Don't do this,
it may eat your system.
Alex
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