Hi Folks,
Yesterday I upgraded from Debian 4.0 to Debian 5.0. It took me a couple of
tries but it looked like the upgrade succeeded. However, today when I tried
to run the kde Update Manager I got the following message:
Software index is broken
It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use.
the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f"
in a terminal to fix this issue at first.
Running apt-get install -f as su produced the following:
Running services and programs that are using NSS need to be restarted,
otherwise they might not be able to
do lookup or authentication any more. The installation process is able to
restart some services (such as ssh
or telnetd), but other programs cannot be restarted automatically. One
such program that needs manual
stopping and restart after the glibc upgrade by yourself is xdm - because
automatic restart might disconnect
your active X11
sessions.
This script detected the following installed services which must be
stopped before the upgrade: kdm gdm
If you want to interrupt the upgrade now and continue later, please answer
No to the question
below.
Do you want to upgrade glibc
now?
<Yes> <No>
When I chose <Yes> I got the following lines:
debian:~# apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6 libc6-i386 linux-libc-dev
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-kernel-headers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-libc-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6 libc6-i386
2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1086 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/9463kB of archives.
After unpacking 3518kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 164562 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6-i386 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9 (using
.../libc6-i386_2.7-18_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6-i386 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.7-18_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during
`./emul/ia32-linux/lib/libc-2.7.so': No space
left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch9 (using
.../libc6_2.7-18_amd64.deb) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
WARNING: init script for xscreensaver not found.
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (9, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./lib/
libm-2.7.so': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.7-18_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
debian:~#
I also tried aptitude install -f but got the same result as above.
Synaptic showed me that the following packages are broken: binutils,
libc6-dev, locales. I attempted to use synaptic to fix the broken packages
but got the following message, which is the same as that from apt-get:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.7-18_amd64.deb: failed in
buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18_amd64.deb: failed in
buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
Hoping to proceed without having kdm or gdm running, I did a console login
and ran apt-get install -f again but got the same result as above.
I would appreciate advice.
Robin
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