Hi Mark, Thanks for your reply and for the link. I tried to follow the procedure given in
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ But I guess I didn't follow it closely enough. Perhaps the easiest thing to do now is to download an iso file, burn it to a DVD and boot from that. Robin On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Mark Carlson <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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