Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"
On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote:
[...]
> It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even
> relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems
> here with tetex-base. When I try to correct the problem,
> I get a system crash or even trigger a reboot.
>
> The system is a mixture of testing and unstable (pinned to
> testing, but with several major applications upgraded).
> I have had numerous instabilities lately, and thought
> that I might improve the situation by upgrading to
> unstable (my unstable box works just fine), but instead
> things look worse than ever . . .
>
> For example, I was just going to try the following
>
> apt-get -f install
> dpkg --configure -a
>
> but already at the first step, I get a reboot!!!????!!!
> What could be causing this?
Sure smells a lot like hardware trouble (memory?). Better be
ready with your backups...
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