Re: apt-get dist-upgrade broke on testing
Yes, that's *exactly* what happened to me, dist-upgrading from a slink
install with a stock 2.0.36 kernel.
I ended up doing a fresh install from my potato CD just because things got
pretty messy. Clearly it's not supposed to work that way, but I'm not sure
what went wrong specifically.
This was on a Dell desktop with nothing exotic going on.
I can't help thinking my ancient kernel wasn't helping any, but it didn't
seem to be implicated in any of the error messages. Besides, I did the same
thing with a 2.0.36 kernel at home. By the end I was using dselect which
seems to be incredibly wise about how to get from A to B, but it just got
worse and worse.
So now I have mostly stable with various things from woody or sid (like
openssh).
If you find out anything I'd sure like to know. In the rebuild I got gnome
working so I'm pretty happy. Still easier than any windows reinstall I've
ever done!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Danie Roux" <droux@tuks.co.za>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 5:30 AM
Subject: apt-get dist-upgrade broke on testing
> Testing breaks. But this is the first time it happened to me :-(
>
> Anyway here's the error:
>
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm
> line 38, <GEN60> chunk 43.
> Use of uninitialized value at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 152, <GEN60> chunk 43.
> Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm
> line 38, <GEN60> chunk 46.
> Use of uninitialized value at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 152, <GEN60> chunk 46.
> (Reading database ... 48062 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace xbase-clients 3.3.6-11potato15 (using
> .../xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement xbase-clients ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config', which is also in
> package xserver-common
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> So where to now?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Danie.
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