2.0->2.2 upgrade: "Internal error: couldn't perform immediate configuration"
Hi all...
When trying to upgrade my system, which consists of hamm and a big
/usr/local/stow, to potato (using the inofficial CD-ROM set from
J.F.Lehmanns), I keep getting internal errors.
Preparations: I've installed
apt 0.3.19
dpkg 1.6.13
(static versions for upgraders) and run apt-cdrom on every cdrom in
the set. Mount point /cdrom exists.
If libpam0g and libpam0g-util are both installed (either hamm or slink
versions), 'apt-get dist-upgrade' fails with
>E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the
>essential package libpam0g 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 libpam0g
If I use 'apt-get -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=1 dist-upgrade', I simply get
>E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
Same result if I remove or purge both libpam0g and libpam0g-util before
the apt-get.
Using google, I found two earlier mailing list postings about the same
error message, both of which were related to a bug that was reported
to be fixed in apt-0.3.18 (I'm using 0.3.19) and occurred when the
user resumed an aborted installation and one of the packages was
essential/immediate-configure.
Any ideas what to try next... or how to make apt-get issue a more
verbose error message about what it has been trying to do?
TIA
Konrad
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