Re: dist upgrade nightmare!
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:32:42 -0500 (EST)
Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> I tried taking a friend's machine from lenny to squeeze and it turned
> into a disaster. As a consequence of the attempt his entire package
> update and repair systems are broken. apt-get -f install can't fix
> anything and dpkg --configure -a can't fix anything anymore and as a
> consequence of those two acts, it's impossible to update his system.
> I can't even downgrade back to lenny! What I would like to know is
> if emergency procedures exist that can clear the mess out that these
> operations created and get the system back to some known state. I
> wouldn't mind this so much if the upgrade had simply failed but a
> system breaking like this where even though useable with the squeeze
> kernel on it is there nothing can be installed or uninstalled with
> apt-get and aptitude apparently got turned into a zombi placed in not
> fully installed or uninstalled or deferred status. If I had done
> this to my own computer that would be one thing, but this is a
> computer of a friend and I don't appreciate these tools for having
> ended up leaving this kind of damage.
>
Any chance you filled up a partition while bringing in the new
packages?
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