Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:

>In any case this is the typescript from my last upgrade attempt.
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>
>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)
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>
I would suggest the command "touch /etc/X11/Xserver" (to create this
file, thus "fooling" the remove script into doing what it wants),
followed by a repeat of "apt-get dist-upgrade -f".

-- 
Kent