Re: serious trouble while apt-get update,upgrade,dist-upgrade
I had a similar problem. When I ran dselect to see if I could find
some additional information, it wanted to remove tar (and everything
which depends upon tar)! Apparently the upgrade had installed a new
version of tar which conflicted with cpio. I downloaded the unstable
version of cpio (cpio_2.4.2-39_i386.deb), installed it, and now my
system appears to be happy again.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:42:53PM +0100, X LAci wrote:
> 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
>
>
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