Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 21:42:08 -0600, Charles Blair wrote:
> I am sorry that I have not yet figured out how to set up an e-mail 
> connection from my beginning
> debian system, so I am copying things off the screen.

No problem; I just wanted to make sure whether there was the possibility
of typos creeping in.

> 
> apt-cache showpkg libc6-dev shows in part:
> 
> ***********************************
>       Versions:
>    2.3.6.ds1-13(/vnar/lib/dpkg/status)
>    2.3.6.ds1-11(/var/lib/apt/....5fEtch...CD...Binary-1...20070226-09:38
> 
> ***********************************
> 
> The output for apt-cache showpkg libc6 is similar to the above.  For
> libc6-amd64 I get:
> 
> ***********************************
> 2.3.6.ds1-13(/var/lib/apt/lists/...Binary-4...20070311-23:58...)
> 2.3.6.ds1-11(/var/lib...Binary-1...20070226-09:38...)
> ***********************************
> 
> It seems that an attempt now to install ANY additional package has 
> aptitude wanting
> to delete emacs21 and (even worse) to remove grub (version 0.97-23).

The libc6-* versions are OK for a current Etch. Maybe aptitude remembers
something stupid it wanted to do earlier. I recommend to run

aptitude keep-all

to make it forget all previously scheduled actions.

Then run

aptitude install -fsD

to see if it is now happy with the system as it is. Once we achieve that
we can try once more what happens if you try to install new packages,
but first the present state has to be consistent.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian