Fwd: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
A very confused user seeking help. This does not appear to be something
easily solved by the debian-user crowd.
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Subject: Ongoing saga of upgrading my old Woody
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:07:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Teague <dbt@cs.wcu.edu>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
I have a Woody installation, done circa Nov 2001, on which I have
done apt-get update, then apt-get install aptitude.
This was the last thing I have done that was successful.
OK I reread the installation and upgrade notes, none of which directly
address my problem which is updating my old Woody installation to current
Stable.
Per suggestions on this list, I have run
apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
It fails like this:
elentari:~# apt-get dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
elentari:~#
I ran dpkg -l, dpkg --audit, got a bus error
I ran dselect, chose apt method, tried to update the list of available
packages, got this error:
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/contrib Release
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/non-free Release
Hit http://non-US.debian.org stable/non-US/main Packages
Hit http://non-US.debian.org stable/non-US/main Release
Hit http://non-US.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Packages
Hit http://non-US.debian.org stable/non-US/contrib Release
Hit http://non-US.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free Packages
Hit http://non-US.debian.org stable/non-US/non-free
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Read error - read (5 Input/output error)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
I haver read the documents, the help files, the man pages with zero
results. I have asked on the list and got some answers that appear to have
got me some place, but NOT FIXED.
Now will someone PLEASE help me? I have asked before about this before.
David Teague
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