See *many* posts to the list in the last few days. You need to manually downgrade base-files.
-Ted On Thursday 21 April 2005 06:55, Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: > I am having a problem with upgrading. Running apt-get upgrade doesn't > upgrade most of the packages. When I run dist-upgrade it wants to > remove a lot of packages including bash. Obviously, this is a problem. > Usually I use synaptic to do upgrades which results in the same > behaviour. > > This has gone on for several days. Is there an easy fix for this? I > think it is related to libc6. Should I risk forcing it (and possibly > not being able to reinstall bash, etc.)? > > dpkg -l libc6 > ------------- > ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20.0 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and > > sources.lst > ----------- > > deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib non-free > deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib > non-free > > # Marillat > deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main > deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main > deb-src ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ unstable main > > # CInelerra > deb http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/athlonxp/ ./ > deb-src http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/builds/sid/ ./ > > > Sample apt-get -u dist-upgrade run: > ----------------------------------- > > pitr:~$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > base-files bash deborphan fetchmail fetchmailconf foomatic-bin > foomatic-db > foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-gimp-print foomatic-db-hpijs > foomatic-filters > foomatic-filters-ppds foomatic-gui gnome-desktop-environment > gnome-volume-manager hal hotplug mailx python-foomatic udev > The following packages will be upgraded: > cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client exim4-base exim4-daemon-light ffmpeg > gocr gpm gtimer hdparm hpijs hplip hplip-data kmenc15 libavcodeccvs > libbio2jack0 > libc6 libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2-gnutls10 libexpat1 > libexpat1-dev libgeos2 libgpmg1 libgpmg1-dev libnspr4 libnss3 liborbit0 > liborbit2 libpostproc0 libsane libscrollkeeper0 libsmbclient libswfdec0.3 > libzvbi-common libzvbi0 locales login mencoder mozilla mozilla-browser > mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mplayer passwd pkg-config samba samba-common > sane-utils scrollkeeper smbclient smbfs swf-player vorbis-tools WARNING: > The following essential packages will be removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > base-files bash > 54 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 66.5MB of archives. > After unpacking 51.0MB disk space will be freed. > You are about to do something potentially harmful > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > ?] > > -- > Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
