On Mi, 12 dec 12, 12:05:41, nv wrote: > > The nvidia driver would not compile against it (stupidly whining that it > required at least a 2.6 kernel!). Just as a side note, nvidia-glx from backports works fine with the kernel in backports ;) > I suspect that I might be able to simply clear some flag to cleanly abort the > dist-upgrade, (which would, hopefully, clear out the conflicts) but do not know > where to look. But, I am open to any ideas. Hopefully, the power doesn't go > out, because I am not confident of a successful boot at this point. :> > Although, again, it seems that NOTHING was actually installed yet. It is this > apparent fact which gives me great hope. apt/itude and dpkg should be able to handle interrupted dist-upgrade. However, for such a complex install as yours (didn't read very careful, but I think I spotted Gnome, KDE and e17 at least), I would suggest you do it gradually. Start with apt/itude (which should also pull a newer dpkg) and go from there. Here are some commands that might help aptitude keep-all dpkg --configure -a Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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