On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:46:31PM -0500, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > tom arnall wrote: >> i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r >> 2.6.16.4 >> >> so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 >> not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > It was doomed from the start. apt-get does not have the intelligence, as > do the apt front ends, essential for all but the most trivial upgrades. > Of those I can only vouch for personal favorite, dselect.
His problems don't have anything to do with the package manager from what I've read -- they have to do with wacked out permissions in /etc, and possibly not having the standard set of etch packages installed (e.g., it sounds like he probably doesn't have linux-image-$ARCH on the system). Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
