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Re: dist-upgrade problem



On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 03:15:34PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> My system is testing with a 2.4.20 kernel.
> 
> I just ran apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade.  
> 
> Result:
> 
>    Reading Package Lists . . .  Done
>    Building Dependency Tree . . .  Done
>    Calculating Upgrade . . .  Failed
>    Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>        kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be 
> installed or
>                                kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
>    E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be 
> caused by held Packages.
> 
> In fact, dpkg -l |grep kdebase reports ii kdebase-audiolibs     2.2.2.14
> 
> Unitl last week dist-upgrade always worked perfectly.  Then, when I ran 
> it last week it completed the upgrade
> but with a message that the file-rc and  kudzu packages were being held 
> back so perhaps this is the problem.  But,
> if I run apt-get install file-rc, I get a warning message that 10 
> important packages and one essential package (sysvinit)
> will be removed   and so I must abort the install.  There is also a 
> message that 85 packages would be upgraded even
> though, as noted, I just ran dist-upgrade last week.
> 
> Does anyone know what is going on?  

Sounds like general testing bugginess.  Trawl the bug pages for 'kde'
(http://bugs.debian.org/kde) and you'll see what I mean.

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