Re: Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed
--- Star King of the Grape Trees
<thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>--- Star King of the Grape Trees
><thestar@fussycoder.id.au> wrote:
>
>
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>>Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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>>>I'm running 2.6.15-1-686 with testing/some
>>>experimental <snip>
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>>>
>>Ok, there's your problem. experimental is...
well,
>>experimental.
>>
>>Mixed systems are also extremely discouraged, and
>>those who run a mixed
>>system generally already know how to deal with
>>whatever issues they find.
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>Hello Star...,
>OOOOk, I forget just exactly what sid programs I
have;
>some media player file that wouldn't work under
>testing. If I uninstall it, will the problem go
away?
>BTW, I have ran mixed distros
>before and never had anything like this happen but
it
>was always with a 2.6.8 kernel or less.
>I'm no expert, using linux-debian for less than 2
yrs.
>I've always could install a debian version in any
>distro unless there was a dependency issue that had
to
>be fixed first. In this case my efforts failed as
>shown in the output from my attempts. Could use
some
>specific suggestions. Thanks.
>
Are you running a testing/experimental or a
testing/sid (ie, etch/sid)
system?
Yes, I am. I can boot with a 2.4.18-bf2.4,
2.6.8-1-686 or 2.6.15-1-686
kernel. I just upgraded to testing(etch) from sarge
stable. I have one media player installed that's
experimental(sid) and would remove it if
that would clear things up.
Also, the fact that it worked 2 years ago means
nothing - the issue is
wether they are compatible and they are not.
Ok, I think I understand; the gcc-4.0 compiler is
responsible for the
difference. Must have missed the warning documentation
on this. I recently
had to revise the Linuxant Makefile for their tar.gz
driver package to get it to use gcc-4.0 and get
my winmodem to work with 2.6.15.
I have performed a sid->sarge downgrade, and
consequently it is a mixed
system, however the sid installation at the time was
_before_ the gcc4
transition, and that alone made it much easier.
Am I better off if I go to either all etch or all sid
even if
I have to uninstall woody. Be happy to do either if
it helps. I do want the 2.6.15-1-686 linux-image.
I have had numerous problems with mixed systems, in
a nutshell, a manual
repair is often neccessary - from fixing pam issues
by hand to many
other fixes, we cannot just give you some "specific
suggestions" due to
the nature of the problem.
Ok, just comment on this one apt output regarding the
dependency issue, if you please:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
kdelibs: Depends: kdelibs-data (>= 4:3.3.2-6.4) but
4:3.3.2-6.3 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with
no packages (or specify a solution).
ChatagnierL-Home:/temp#
ChatagnierL-Home:/temp# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs-data
The following packages will be upgraded:
kdelibs-data
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 54 not
upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/7094kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be
used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 231615 files and directories
currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kdelibs-data 4:3.3.2-6.3 (using
.../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-6.4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
(--unpack):
unable to make backup link of
`./usr/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xml-dtd-4.2/ent/iso-grk1.ent'
before installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken
pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
localepurge: checking system for new locale ...
localepurge: processing locale files ...
localepurge: processing man pages ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error co
If you can assist me in resolving the dependency issue
with
kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
(--unpack):, and get it installed, I think I can
handle the rest
for now. I usually handle any dependency issue by
installing the
dependant package but in this case it wont install.
Thanks for any
help on this one item.
PS-KDE Help crashed with signal 11 forcing me to do a reboot
with the CPU reset button and a manual fsck to boot up again.
Afterwords, I reran apt-get -f install again because some of
the original output messages was lost in copying and the dep-
endancy error was gone and
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.2-6.4_all.deb
got installed but openoffice still wont install or upgrade.
FWIW.
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570@sbcglobal.net
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