I had a similar problem. When I ran dselect to see if I could find some additional information, it wanted to remove tar (and everything which depends upon tar)! Apparently the upgrade had installed a new version of tar which conflicted with cpio. I downloaded the unstable version of cpio (cpio_2.4.2-39_i386.deb), installed it, and now my system appears to be happy again.
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 07:42:53PM +0100, X LAci wrote: > Hi, > > Each week as usual, I did > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade > > on my woody box. > > dist-upgrade wanted to remove my running kernel-image. I said no. > > By the time it finished dist-upgrade (with an error message due to the > kernel-image), it removed > cpio initrd-tools... > > I did apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.14-686 cpio initrd-tools. > > This one installed, but mkinitrd misses ldd. I checked around, ldd is > missing!!!! > > 2.4.14 can't be booted, I think the initrd is broken because mkinitrd > misses ldd. > > If I now do an apt-get dist-upgrade, I get: > > linux:~# apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Calculating Upgrade... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > cpio initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.12-686 kernel-image-2.4.14-686 > The following packages have been kept back > libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl1.2-dev libsmpeg0 > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 4 not upgraded. > Remv kernel-image-2.4.14-686 (2.4.14-1 Debian:testing) > Remv kernel-image-2.4.12-686 (2.4.12-1 Debian:testing) > Remv initrd-tools (0.1.13 Debian:testing) > Remv cpio (2.4.2-38 Debian:testing) > Inst tar (1.13.25-1 Debian:testing) > Conf tar (1.13.25-1 Debian:testing) > > So, again it wants to remove my kernels, cpio, initrd.... > > Any idea how to get ldd back, and solve this whole mess? > > Bye, > > Laci > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S
