gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)
http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie
It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still
possibly catch something I haven't)
my working assumption at this point is that last night either manually deleting the deb files for 5 packages (from the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory) and/or the fact that immediately after trying that I then tried running "apt-get -f install"
(when I'd only been using aptitude previously) created the problem -- but i'm not sure I care all that much about how I mucked
things up, it's rather getting things straightened out that's important -- so does anyone have any tricks they'd suggest for how I
get all of these uninstalls to complete despite the fact that gconftool-2 is very unhappy and barfs complaining about a lib
mismatch problem with gzopen64 (the root of the problem is with libxml2.so.2, so perhaps the package . But at this point I'd
rather that I accept that all gnome stuff will be forever broken on this box than have aptitude continue to be borked. If someone
has an elegant solution, of course I'm happy to consider that too, but I'd appreciate any thoughts (no matter how
outrageous/potentially-destructive).
here's a small snip for those who don't want to follow the link at the top:
gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: gzopen64
dpkg: error processing capplets-data (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: error processing desktop-base (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
and as I pasted this I realized I ought to see where that file comes from and the package is libxml2
if I try to do "aptitude remove libxml2" the first couple dozen choices to resolve dependencies leave it at its current version
(and I'm unsure whether aptitude might actually give me a better choice if i keep clicking "n" -- it does seem to be able to
indefinitely suggest new solutions)
if I try to upgrade libxml2 I get this (desktop-base (along with shared-mime-info is one of those 5 packages I talked about above
(that I incorrectly removed the .deb files from my archives directory) :
Resolving dependencies...
E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Remove the following packages:
deskbar-applet
epiphany-extensions
evince
evolution
evolution-common
evolution-data-server
evolution-exchange
gnome-mount
gnome-power-manager
gnome-screensaver
gnome-volume-manager
nautilus-cd-burner
rhythmbox
sound-juicer
sun-java5-jre
yelp
Install the following packages:
bittorrent [3.4.2-11 (unstable, now)]
fam [2.7.0-13 (unstable)]
gnome-mime-data [2.18.0-1 (unstable, now)]
libavahi-glib1 [0.6.21-4 (unstable, now)]
libbonobo2-0 [2.20.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libbonobo2-common [2.20.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libbonoboui2-0 [2.20.0-1 (unstable, now)]
libbonoboui2-common [2.20.0-1 (unstable)]
libcamel1.2-10 [1.12.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libebook1.2-9 [1.12.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libecal1.2-7 [1.12.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libedataserver1.2-9 [1.12.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libgnome-desktop-2 [2.20.2-1 (unstable, now)]
libgnome2-0 [2.20.1.1-1 (unstable, now)]
libgnomeui-0 [2.20.1.1-1 (unstable, now)]
libgnomeui-common [2.20.1.1-1 (unstable)]
libgnomevfs2-0 [1:2.20.1-1 (unstable, now)]
libgnomevfs2-extra [1:2.20.1-1 (unstable, now)]
libgtkhtml3.14-19 [3.16.1-1 (unstable)]
libnotify1 [0.4.4-3 (unstable, now)]
libpanel-applet2-0 [2.20.2-2 (unstable, now)]
libsoup2.2-8 [2.2.104-1 (unstable, now)]
libwnck-common [2.20.2-1 (unstable)]
libwnck22 [2.20.2-1 (unstable)]
libxres1 [2:1.0.3-1 (unstable, now)]
python-gnome2 [2.20.1-1 (unstable)]
rdesktop [1.5.0-3+cvs20071006 (unstable)]
Upgrade the following packages:
gtkhtml3.14 [3.14.2-1 (now) -> 3.16.1-1 (unstable)]
libgnome2-common [2.18.0-4 (now) -> 2.20.1.1-1 (unstable)]
libgnomevfs2-common [1:2.18.1-2 (now) -> 1:2.20.1-1 (unstable)]
notification-daemon [0.3.7-1 (now) -> 0.3.7-1+b1 (unstable)]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
libgnomevfs2-0 recommends gnome-mount
meld recommends yelp
Score is -4309
thanks much in advance for any that are still tuned in -- it's a bit of a muddle,
~c
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