Re: Problematic upgrade

[Andrei POPESCU]

On Jo, 22 mar 12, 07:24:20, Alan Chandler wrote:
 
 I then went into aptitude and found the package there and put a hold
 on that version.  I was then able to get aptitude to properly
 re-install desktop-utils (which meant for instance that until that
 point I was unable to run nautilus).

For the future you may want to use 'F' (forbid version) ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: Problematic upgrade

[Alan Chandler]

On 22/03/12 04:34, Frank McCormick wrote:


Just upgraded my Sid system

Will install 13 packages, and remove 0 packages.
24.6 kB of disk space will be freed
=== 


[UPGRADE] acpid 1:2.0.15-1 - 1:2.0.15-2
[UPGRADE] cups-filters 1.0.5-1 - 1.0.7-1
[UPGRADE] gir1.2-freedesktop 1.31.20-1 - 1.31.22-1
[UPGRADE] gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.31.20-1 - 1.31.22-1
[UPGRADE] google-chrome-stable 17.0.963.79-r125985 - 17.0.963.83-r127885
[UPGRADE] libcupsfilters1 1.0.5-1 - 1.0.7-1
[UPGRADE] libgirepository-1.0-1 1.31.20-1 - 1.31.22-1
[UPGRADE] libpcre3 8.12-4 - 8.30-1
[UPGRADE] libpython2.7 2.7.3~rc1-1 - 2.7.3~rc2-1
[UPGRADE] makedev 2.3.1-89 - 2.3.1-90
[UPGRADE] python-tk 2.7.1-3 - 2.7.3-1
[UPGRADE] python2.7 2.7.3~rc1-1 - 2.7.3~rc2-1
[UPGRADE] python2.7-minimal 2.7.3~rc1-1 - 2.7.3~rc2-1
=== 



Log complete.
Aptitude 0.6.5: log report
Thu, Mar 22 2012 00:02:20 -0400


Be warned...libpcre3 8.30-1 makes for an un-runnable system, at least it
did here. I solved it by downgrading to 8.12-4 again which contains
libpcre.so.3. Apparently the new version doesn't.




I hit the same problem on an upgrade this morning.  I solved it by 
manually downloading the 8.12-4 deb from the archives (I went to the 
libpcre3 package page, went to download the latest version but where the 
list of ftp mirrors appears I copied the link address into my browser.  
I then backspaced to remove the package name and get a directory listing 
so I was then able to find the older package).


I downloaded it and installed with dpkg -i.

I then went into aptitude and found the package there and put a hold on 
that version.  I was then able to get aptitude to properly re-install 
desktop-utils (which meant for instance that until that point I was 
unable to run nautilus).


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Re: Re: Problematic upgrade

[dj_palindrome]

Thank you both. I can confirm that this upgrade completely breaks systems.

I'm a bit of a wimp, as well as a neophyte, so I bailed out and restored 
a VM snapshot.


Now I understand how the package that was *not* upgraded croaked the 
system, because the package that *was* upgraded has its SONAMEs 
completely munged.






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Re: Problematic upgrade

[Bob Proulx]

Frank McCormick wrote:
 Be warned...libpcre3 8.30-1 makes for an un-runnable system, at least it
 did here. I solved it by downgrading to 8.12-4 again which contains
 libpcre.so.3. Apparently the new version doesn't.

Has been reported here:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664983

Nasty!  Sid is an unstable kid.

Bob


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