On Jan 2, 2015 6:33 PM, "Sam Varghese" <sam@gnubies.com> wrote:
>
> I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the
> past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors:
[oodles of errors]
> Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> root@tuatara:/home/poormigrant#
>
> I am using a Lenovo i7 laptop:
> root@tuatara:/home/poormigrant# uname -a
> Linux tuatara 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-2 (2014-11-06) x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
> Any help on resolving this would be gratefully received. I am not
> subscribed to
> the list so I would appreciate being copied in.
I have always found aptitude extraordinarily good at resolving such problems. It will upgrade what it can, stop, and when asked to upgrade again, will often complete the process. Under the hood, it may be doing exactly what Bob Proulx just suggested in his reply.
Patrick