Bug#522665: upgrading too far borks a second system
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.20.2
ARGH!! This is the second time I have tried to upgrade a debian system
that hasn't been used in a while and the second time it craps out with
this sysvinit conflict/pre-depends loop.
On the other system, I did the force option, and it so screwed the
system up that I just uninstalled debian and put netbsd on it. On this
one, that's not really an option, so I need this to work.
So trying to apt-get install packages one by one and I eventually get
to:
# apt-get update
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org stable Release.gpg [386B]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org stable Release [63.2kB]
Ign http://http.us.debian.org stable Release
Ign http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages
Fetched 63.6kB in 0s (216kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org stable Release: Unknown error
executing gpgv
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
Its funny right?
# apt-get install gpgv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gpgv
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 135 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/143kB of archives.
After this operation, 303kB of additional disk space will be used.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
gpgv
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Setting up apt (0.7.20.2) ...
dpkg: error processing apt (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
apt
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
... whatever... I went on #debian and tried to get irc help, always a
bad idea, and I'm just done with debian, this thing, it comes down to
some apt dependency with libc and who knows
apt-get with no force options should not break a system. But yeah, you
get what you pay for they tell me.
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