Re: How to install Unstable?
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:49:18 +0100
"Dan H." <dunno@stoptrick.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just tried installing Debian unstable on an extra disk I had kicking
> around (I've been running stable for several years without any
> trouble).
>
> This is what I did: I fetched the etch installer (there seems to be no
> dedicated "unstable" installer) and installed a minimal barebones
> system (bailed right out of tasksel without checking anything).
> Booted into this system, and changed the relevant lines
> in /etc/apt/sources.list from "etch" to "unstable". I also deleted
> the CD-ROM sources (which is testing) as well as the security ones
> (there being no explicit security stuff for unstable).
>
> Then I did "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade".
>
> The system worked for a while; I cant't really recall what happened,
> and threw a lot of errors. The "update" bit works fine, but whenever
> I run "apt-get upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade", I get this:
>
> -------------------------------
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> adduser bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox console-common console-data
> coreutils cron debianutils dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dmidecode dpkg
> dselect gcc-4.1-base gzip initscripts installation-report
> klibc-utils klogd libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libc6-i686 libdevmapper1.02
> libgcc1 libgpg-error0 libklibc libnewt0.52 libreadline5 libsepol1
> libstdc++6 libusb-0.1-4 libvolume-id0 libwrap0
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-486 locales lsb-base module-init-tools mount
> nano netbase openbsd-inetd readline-common sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit
> sysvinit-utils tasksel tasksel-data tcpd tzdata udev util-linux
> vim-common vim-tiny whiptail Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> 57 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/39.5MB of archives.
> After unpacking 3084kB of additional disk space will be used.
> dpkg: configuration error: unknown option log: Success
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> -------------------------------
>
> And the system is left in a completely unusable state. I couldn't even
> edit the apt sources back to "etch" because I couldn't get an editor:
>
> # vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> -bash: /usr/bin/vi: no such file or directory.
>
> So what can I do now?
>
> Thanks,
> --Dan
>
>
The first rule of running unstable: learn to love Google. A search on
the error message you quoted above would have suggested the following.
Move the file /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg temporarily to another location. Can
you upgrade now?
--
Liam
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