Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
I just tried doing a "apt-get dist-upgrade" of a potato system to woody. (First time I had done so on a non-freshly installed system.) It failed, leaving many packages unconfigured and/or uninstalled, and perl seems to be broken and can't be upgraded. The first problem encountered was the large amount of disk space for downloading packages. I tried working around this by upgrading apt first (which worked), but this wasn't enough so I created a symbolic link for /var/cache/apt/archives to a bigger partition. complete logs are available at http://www.blars.org/obfuscate/ sources.list is /etc/apt/sources.list dist-upgrade.gz is first attempt, cumulating in sucessful "apt-get upgrade apt" dist-upgrade2.gz is second attempt, including various failed workarounds dist-upgrade3.gz is more workarounds -- libc6 upgraded, perl fails (warning: large files) Errors include: ... Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm line 68. Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Element/Dialog/Multiselect.pm line 69. ... Preparing to replace libstdc++2.10-dev 1:2.95.2-13 (using .../libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-1_i386.deb) ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libstdc++2.10-dev_1%3a2.95.4-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: regarding .../libc6-dev_2.2.5-3_i386.deb containing libc6-dev: libc6-dev conflicts with libstdc++2.10-dev (<< 1:2.95.2-15) libstdc++2.10-dev (version 1:2.95.2-13) is installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.5-3_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing libc6-dev Selecting previously deselected package libgtk1.2-common. 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 Depends: libstdc++2.10-dev (>= 1:2.95.4) but 1:2.95.2-13 is installe d gcc-2.95: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed gobjc-2.95: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed libdb2: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed libdb2-util: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed libfreetype6: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.2.5-3 perl-modules: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.1-1) but it is not installed xlib6g: Depends: xlibs but it is not installed Depends: libxaw6 but it is not installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. ... perl: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by /lib/libdb.so.3) E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt ... System info listed here is from working woody system, not the broken system with the problem. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux monkey 2.4.13-586-ext3 #1 Die Nov 6 00:09:32 CET 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library
