Bug#310490: Upgrade report
severity 310490 important
tags 310490 confirmed
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On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 06:03:36PM -0400, astronut wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
>
> Archive date: Mon May 23 19:00:01 UTC 2005
> Upgrade date: Late Afternoon EST 5/23/05
> uname -a: Old: Linux debian-test 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST
> 2002 i686 unknown
> New: Linux debian-test 2.2.20 #1 Sat Apr 20 11:45:28 EST 2002 i686 GNU/Linux
> (Time is weird, seems to be a thing with vmware)
This is the time the kernel was built, nothing wrong here.
> Method: aptitude -f dist-upgrade
> 126 packages failed to upgrade....some are understandable, however
> others should have... aptitude ouptut at end of message. I have a
> complete log of the install proccess, however I didn't attach due to
> all the terminal garbage it has. Available upon request. This was done
> in VMware, and I saved copies, so I have both a woody system ready to
> upgrade again and a running sarge (and can make more copies of
> either).
With the package list, I can duplicate that problem. This seems a pretty
serious breakage, probably due to some major dependency loops.
aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade
does not make things work better.
aptitude install -f aptitude try to remove twice more packages.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
Imagine a large red swirl here.
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