Re: libc6 problems
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You need to be more clear on your system configuration (distribution,
> preferences, ...) but let bme try help you.
Sorry. It's a woody machine, upgraded when woody was testing. Nothing all
that special about it; it's got a custom-compiled kernel 2.4.18.
> > ...
> $ apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
> Installed: 2.2.5-14.3
> Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3
> Version Table:
> 2.2.5-15 0
> 70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> *** 2.2.5-14.3 0
> 800 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 2.2.5-11.2 0
> 500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> 2.2.5-6 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
>
Mine says:
perrin:/tmp# apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
Installed: 2.2.4-5
Candidate: (none)
Package Pin: (not found)
Version Table:
2.2.5-11.2 1001
500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
2.2.5-6 1001
500 http://distro.ibiblio.org stable/main Packages
500 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
*** 2.2.4-5 1001
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> You are upgrading from potato to woody. "apt-get dist-upgrade" was what
> is needed but this is known not to be the best way (despite some others
> posted).
Actually I'm not (or at least not currently trying to). The machine was
upgraded using apt-get dist-upgrade back in December, 2001.
>
> Installmanual and my "Debian Reference" recommend to use "dselect for
> these occasion. Just trust us :-)
>
> # dselect update
> # dselect select
> ... play with selection
> # dselect install
Something is clearly messed up on this machine. When I do this:
- libc6 shows only the 2.2.4-5 available:
*** Req base libc6 2.2.4-5 2.2.4-5 GNU C
- I can't exit select without encountering a host of unresolved
dependencies; I end up having to use Q to get out.
- dselect install then gives:
perrin:/tmp# dselect install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
abiword abiword-common abiword-gtk ascd asmixer bibview cdrtoaster
communicator communicator-base-477 communicator-smotif-477 diploma
dpsclient
dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr dvidvi fortify fortify-linux-x86 fvwm2 fvwmconf
gs-aladdin-manual gv html2ps jadetex jdk1.1 kivio koffice koshell
labelnation lib-fop-java lib-xt-java libltdl0-dev libmagick4g-lzw
libplot
libwmf0 memprof mrproject mswordview netscape-base-4 netscape-base-477
netscape-java-477 octave-plplot oleo perlmagick plotutils plplot
plplot-doc
plplot-tcl python-ldap task-tcltk tdtd tk8.0 tk8.2 winesetuptk xlib6
xmix
xproxy xspread xtranslate
The following NEW packages will be installed:
esound-clients fam fvwm-icons gimpprint-locales gnupg-doc imlib-progs
ipmasqadm iptables jpilot-plugins kernel-image-2.4.18-686 kghostview
libhtml-format-perl libltdl3-dev libnet-ph-perl libnet-snpp-perl
libnss-db
libstdc++3 mtr-tiny python-egenix-mxdatetime python-newt
python2.1-egenix-mxdatetime python2.1-egenix-mxtools texi2html
util-linux-locales vacation x-ttcidfont-conf
0 packages upgraded, 26 newly installed, 57 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.9MB of archives. After unpacking 44.7MB will be freed.
Since I definitely *don't* want to remove all those packages, I abort at
that point.
Clearly I have done something wrong here. Is there an easy way to "clean
up"?
Thanks.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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