Re: Unable to complete package upgrade in jessie

[Bill Baker <bill_chris@earthlink.net>]

On 04/27/2015 06:23 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 28.04.2015 um 00:05 schrieb Bill Baker:
>> Over the weekend, I upgraded my headless ssh server from wheezy to jessie.
>> It's an older computer, built in the year 2000 with an AMD-K6 processor.
>> Uname -a returns the following:
>>
>> Linux shunnel 2.6.32-5-486 #1 Mon Feb 25 00:22:26 UTC 2013 i586 GNU/Linux
> That kernel is not from wheezy.
Yeah, that's probably the kernel from squeeze, the version that was out
when I first installed it.
>> Anyone have any ideas on what I can try next?
>>
> First upgrade your kernel to the wheezy version (reboot) and everything
> will be fine.
>
> Dist-upgrades been foo and foo+2 (or greater) are not really supported.
>
I already tried that.  From my original email:

> I even tried upgrading the kernel with apt-get -f install linux-image-486:
>
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> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  consolekit : Breaks: udev (< 204-1) but 175-7.2 is to be installed
>  linux-image-486 : Depends: linux-image-586 but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
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