Re: would dpkg --ignore-deps likely clear this bottleneck?
Jude DaShiell wrote:
Script started on Fri Mar 31 16:02:42 2006
debian:~# aptitude -f install
[...]
Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will
be REMOVED:
postgresql-doc-7.4 The following packages have been kept back:
common-lisp-controller grub kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kexi
libacl1 libattr1 libexpat1 libghc6-hdbc-dev libghc6-hdbc-postgresql-dev
libhugs-hdbc libhugs-hdbc-postgresql libnewt0.52 libopenexr2c2a libtiff4
python-newt whiptail The following NEW packages will be installed:
x11-common The following packages will be REMOVED:
alien binutils-multiarch debhelper dh-make diffstat gforge-db-postgresql
html2text intltool-debian libbeecrypt6 libcanlock2 libmail-sendmail-perl
libneon25 librpm4 libsqlite3-0 lintian lsb-rpm metamail po-debconf
postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-doc rpm tin 0 packages
upgraded, 1 newly installed, 24 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1124kB of archives. After unpacking 42.2MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 64311 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package
xfree86-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This is the source of the problems. What are you trying to do? Are you
dist-upgrading to move from XFree86 to Xorg? You could force the
installation of x11-common with "dpkg --force-all -i x11-common" but
without knowing more about your setup I would not dare to predict the
consequences of this.
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xfree86-common:
xfree86-common depends on x11-common; however:
Package x11-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xfree86-common (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
The rest of the installation problems will most likely go away as soon
as this issue is resolved. It may be that you have some sort of chicken
and egg problem: The new version of xfree86-common depends on x11-common
to ensure a complete upgrade to Xorg, but the old version of
xfree86-common has some files which overlap with x11-common. Therefore
aptitude cannot install x11-common as long as the old version of
xfree86-common is there, and it cannot upgrade xfree86-common because
the new version depends on x11-common. Unfortunately I do not know if a
forced installation of x11-common or an "ignore-depends" upgrade of
xfree86-common is the better way to break out of this loop.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libx11-6:
libx11-6 depends on x11-common (>> 4.3.0); however:
Package x11-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libx11-6 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wv:
wv depends on libx11-6; however:
Package libx11-6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing wv (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwv-1.2-1:
libwv-1.2-1 depends on libx11-6; however:
Package libx11-6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libwv-1.2-1 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfree86-common
libx11-6
wv
libwv-1.2-1
debian:~# exit
exit
Script done on Fri Mar 31 16:03:54 2006
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