Dear Maintainer, I got bitten by this bug yesterday as metacity-common was updated during an apt-get upgrade. The fix described above got the system back to working again.
running sid, apt-get updated most every day tv:~$ dpkg -s metacity Package: metacity Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 880 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers < [email protected]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1:2.34.1-1 tv:~$ dpkg -s metacity-common Package: metacity-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 6590 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers < [email protected]> Architecture: all Source: metacity Version: 1:2.34.3-2 metacity cannot be upgraded: tv:~$ apt-get install metacity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libglib2.0-0 : Breaks: eog (< 3.2.2-3) but 3.0.2-2 is to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. Thanks, Jörgen
