Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008-10-11 03:44 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>> Package: upgrade-reports
>> Severity: normal
>
> I'm afraid the severity might have to be bumped to grave if other
> people see this problem as well.
>
>> I'm trying to upgrade a fresh Etch install to Lenny. I've hit a speedbump, it seems, see below.
>> How should I (or a normal user) solve this?
>>
>> Olaf
>>
>> # aptitude full-upgrade
> [snip]
>> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package initscripts due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
>> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove initscripts
>
> Can you please try "aptitude -s install initscripts"? That might give
> an idea which package is causing the dependency loop.
# aptitude -s install initscripts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
initscripts
The following packages will be upgraded:
libselinux1 libsepol1 sysvinit-utils
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 230 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/347kB of archives. After unpacking 102kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
initscripts: Conflicts: insserv (< 1.09.0-12) but 1.08.0-11 is
installed and it is kept back.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Upgrade the following packages:
insserv [1.08.0-11 (now) -> 1.12.0-4 (testing)]
Score is 120
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
The following packages will be upgraded:
initscripts insserv libselinux1 libsepol1 sysvinit-utils
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/413kB of archives. After unpacking 426kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Would download/install/remove packages.
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