Re: big trouble in upgrading from Debian 3.0 to 3.1

[Brian Kimsey-Hickman <kimhick@gmail.com>]

Hi Luiz,

I had similar trouble.  This is what I ended up doing based on the
advice of others in this list.

apt-get autoclean;  this will clean up your cache directory, good thing to do
 every once in a while but no required.

 apt-get update;

 apt-get dist-upgrade

Thanks go to Roberto C. Sanchez for this.

I ran into this error:

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)

And this solution worked for that

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".

Thanks goto Kent West

After that everthing started working find.

Hope this helps,

Brian

On 6/15/05, Luiz Regis Emediato <lgemedia@terra.com.br> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I used dselect in order to upgrade from version 3.0 to 3.1.
> I let dselect do it by its own: 956 new upgrade packages were
> download but when it tries to install them many errors appear
> specially about libc6 C++ and also errors about broken
> unpacking. I still can log in to the old 3.0 fortunatelly.
> I would appreciate any help in how to solve these issues.
> 
> many thanks in advance,
> Luiz Emediato
> 
> PS: My Debian 3.0 was working dandy prior to the upgrade to 3.1.
> 
> 
> 
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