Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broken: udev

[Brandon Kuczenski <b@301south.net>]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Tim Hunter wrote:

> Brandon Kuczenski said:
> > Last night I was brave and attempted an apt-get dist-upgrade before I went
> > to sleep.  When I woke up this morning, the program had exited on an
> > error.
> >
> > The error was in installing udev_0.068-2_i386.deb -- it complained that it
> > needed a kernel >= 2.6.12 to install, and promptly quit.  I assume that
> > the specified kernel is part of the dist-upgrade, but I cannot find a
> > kernel-image-2.6.1[2-9] debfile in my /var/cache/apt/archive directory.
>
> new kernels are part of the linux-image package, that should take care of
> things.
> however udev requires that 2.6.12 is running to install

Okay -- so I need just a little apt-get help.  How do I get apt-get to 
ignore the broken dependencies long enough to download and install 
linux-image-2.6.12-.....?  Right now, every time I use apt-get to do 
something, it tells me that dependencies are broken and advises running 
'apt-get -f install', which fails.

A deeply troubling question: why did dist-upgrade break my system in this 
manner?

Thanks in advance,
-Brandon