Problem upgrading xlibs 4.2.1-4 to 4.2.1-5 (Broken pipe)

[Mikael Olenfalk <mikael@netgineers.se>]

Hi Everybody,


I just tried to "aptitude dist-upgrade" my system in order to become up
to date, but somehow it just bails out at xlibs:

devcon-x:/home/mikael# aptitude -s dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  xlibs-dev
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  abiword-common abiword-gnome gnome gstreamer-avifile gstreamer-player
  libbonoboui2-dev libglade2-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomeui-dev
libofx0
  libpspell-ispell1 system-tray-applet
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  aspell-bin aspell-en libapm1 libaspell15 libfaad2-0 libgnome-desktop-2
  libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0
  libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgstreamer0.5.1 libjack0.44.0-0
  libmusicbrainz1c102 libofx0c102 libosp3c102 libsidplay1-c102
libssl0.9.7
  powermgmt-base sidplay-base xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu xprt-common
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  libaspell10 libgstreamer0.5.0 libmusicbrainz1 libosp3 libpspell4
  libsidplay1
The following packages have been kept back:
  g++-3.2 libstdc++5-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  aspell-bin aspell-en libapm1 libaspell15 libfaad2-0 libgnome-desktop-2
  libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0
  libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgstreamer0.5.1 libjack0.44.0-0
  libmusicbrainz1c102 libofx0c102 libosp3c102 libsidplay1-c102
libssl0.9.7
  powermgmt-base sidplay-base xlibmesa3-gl xlibmesa3-glu xprt-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libaspell10 libgstreamer0.5.0 libmusicbrainz1 libosp3 libpspell4
  libsidplay1
The following packages will be upgraded:
  aspell automake1.4 balsa base-passwd cpp-3.2 dialog eog evolution
[...snip...]
  xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xfs xfwp xine-ui xlib6g xlibmesa3 xlibs
xnest
  xprt xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xspecs xterm xutils xvfb yelp
218 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 18 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/201MB of archives. After unpacking 35.3MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
 
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
 
Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 73705 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xlibs 4.2.1-4 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-5_i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement xlibs ...


At this points it freezes (D state in ps ux) and it never wakes up again
(waited > 5h). Sometimes it gives me error messages about a broken pipe.

I've tried to remove xlibs-dev first, but it never let's me due to a
missing file (it suggests I fix the error manually, sadly enough I don't
know what the error is).



Any help appreciated,


Regards, Mikael


-- 
Mikael Olenfalk <mikael _at_ netgineers _dot_ se>
Netgineers