Subject: aptitude: Totally Destroyed Debian as VMware appliance Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.4-4 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** After aptitude held back a large number of packages schedule for update, I did 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (Yes, I was asking for trouble). Sometime later ran aptitude again. An upgrade proceeded, to include linux-kernels (e.g., 686 and k7). There was some long message with answering OK being the only response. Afterward none of the kernels would boot. There was an file not found error message. The info below show my system after a full restore to stable; I was using testing when disaster struck. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3 0.6.46.4-0.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
