Hi, I had Potato running on a Ultra5. It's been sitting idle. Yesterday and today I brought it into service as Samba server. I was reading up on NFS and saw that rpc.rquotad did not exist. I decided to upgrade to Woody to see if that would bring in the missing program.
I am new to apt. I think I screwed up in a big way. I was reading apt howto and tried "apt-get -u update". It gave an "E" and did not proceed. So I tried "apt-get -u dist-upgrade". The results are below. Then I ran the command again - on suggestion from googling on error message. Results are also below. I am cowardly going to reload from scratch now because it appears that the machine is in an "in-between" state. What I learned: Keep the machine updated more frequently. Are there any other lessons I should be learning? Does anyone think the problems could have been repaired by a more skilled administrator? Thanks, Mike ------ first run of apt-get -u dist-upgrade----------- Unpacking gcc-2.95 (from .../gcc-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-7_sparc.deb) ... Preparing to replace gcc 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../gcc_2%3a2.95.4-14_sparc.deb) ...Removing old gcc doc directory. Unpacking replacement gcc ... Preparing to replace cpp 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../cpp_2%3a2.95.4-14_sparc.deb) ...Unpacking replacement cpp ... Preparing to replace g++ 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../g++_2%3a2.95.4-14_sparc.deb) ...Unpacking replacement g++ ... Selecting previously deselected package g++-2.95. Unpacking g++-2.95 (from .../g++-2.95_1%3a2.95.4-7_sparc.deb) ... Preparing to replace libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-7_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libstdc++2.10-dev ... Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.1.3-20 (using .../libc6-dev_2.2.5-11.2_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... Replacing files in old package netbase ... Preparing to replace locales 2.1.3-20 (using .../locales_2.2.5-11.2_all.deb) ...Unpacking replacement locales ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg recieved a segmentation fault. sun1:/# ------ second run of apt-get -u dist-upgrade----------- sun1:/# apt-get -u dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: binutils: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed cpp-2.95: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed g++-2.95: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed gcc-2.95: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.2) but 2.1.3-20 is installed libstdc++2.10-dev: Depends: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4) but it is not installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-11.2 E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. -- Mike M.
