On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Richard Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
First, what method are you using to upgrade? Were you following a guide, or just put in the discs and hit "upgrade"? Here is one guide, is this what you did? http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-upgrade-debian-linux-4etch-to-5lenny-server.html -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
