Re: dependencies, tasks, preseed
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 02:10:37PM +0200, Gyokuran Shukaido wrote:
> I'm trying to make an automatic installation using the d-i and a preseed-file.
> The first phase goes fine: various configs go withour an error, the
> disk gets formatted according to the partman-recipe, the bootloader
> installs and the machine reboots.
>
> So far so good. In the second phase an error pops up saying that
> "There was a problem installing the selected software", the logfile
> shows:
>
> <snip>
> Reading task descriptions... 0%
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
> E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
> Some packages had unmet dependencies. 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 packages have unmet dependencies:
> perl: Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-8.7) but 5.8.4-8 is installed.
> libconsole: Conflicts: console-tools-libs but 1:0.2.3-23.3 is to be installed.
> dpkg: Conflicts: dpkg-dev (< 1.10) but 1.9.21 is to be installed.
> libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.5) but 2.3.2.ds1-21 is installed.
> libc6: Conflicts: libnss-db (<= 2.2-6.1.1) but 2.2-6 is to be installed.
Looks to me as if the second stage is trying to install from stable,
i.e. woody, while your first stage installed from testing, i.e. sarge.
Fix that and it should work better.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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