Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:48:27PM -0400, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
> You are absolutely right, please accept my apologies.
Accepted.
I've been frantic and posted things I didn't mean in my time, myself.
[snip]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> xserver-rage128: Depends: xserver-common (>= 3.3.5) but it is not installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> Compt-113ws:/home/cpisbk1# apt-get dist-upgrade -f
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> xserver-rage128
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 2436kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 69800 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing xserver-rage128 ...
> sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove):
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xserver-rage128
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Have you considered "dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq --force-depends"?
(You might try one of those options alone rather than both at once.)
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Carl Fink carl@fink.to
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
-Bruce Tognazzini
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