serious trouble while apt-get update,upgrade,dist-upgrade

[X LAci <lanlaf@chello.hu>]

Hi,

Each week as usual, I did

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

on my woody box.

dist-upgrade wanted to remove my running kernel-image. I said no.

By the time it finished dist-upgrade (with an error message due to the
kernel-image), it removed
cpio initrd-tools...

I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.14-686 cpio initrd-tools.

This one installed, but mkinitrd misses ldd. I checked around, ldd is
missing!!!!

2.4.14 can't be booted, I think the initrd is broken because mkinitrd
misses ldd.

If I now do an apt-get dist-upgrade, I get:

linux:~# apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cpio initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-686 kernel-image-2.4.14-686 
The following packages have been kept back
  libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg0 
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 4  not upgraded.
Remv kernel-image-2.4.14-686 (2.4.14-1 Debian:testing)
Remv kernel-image-2.4.12-686 (2.4.12-1 Debian:testing)
Remv initrd-tools (0.1.13 Debian:testing)
Remv cpio (2.4.2-38 Debian:testing)
Inst tar (1.13.25-1 Debian:testing)
Conf tar (1.13.25-1 Debian:testing)

So, again it wants to remove my kernels, cpio, initrd.... 

Any idea how to get ldd back, and solve this whole mess?

Bye,

Laci