I've been using aptitude for years without a problem, and the system upgrade was not done with aptitude. The upgrade was started from a dialog that kept popping up asking me to upgrade the system. That upgrade stopped and supposedly ran a "recovery", although I did not see anything further happen. I ran aptitude because that's what I've always used in the past.
I've reinstalled gnome-panel and upuntu-desktop and fglrx. I don't know what else might be broken, or even how to tell, except that everything related to the wine has become inoperative. I've opened a bug report for that at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/880640 On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Steve Langasek < [email protected]> wrote: > aptitude is not the recommended interface for commandline-based > upgrades; it's recommended that you use apt-get instead. And aptitude > is known to not work right with multiarch packages (which is what > libpam-modules:i386 is). I'm sorry, but it sounds like aptitude has > made a real mess of your system. > > You may be able to fix this by running 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu- > desktop'. But if that doesn't solve it, I think you'll want to take > this question to one of the support forums. (ubuntuforums.org, > askubuntu.com, etc) > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871083 > > Title: > package libpam-modules 1.1.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: > ErrorMessage: './usr/share/man/man8/pam_shells.8.gz' is different from > the same file on the system > > Status in “pam” package in Ubuntu: > Fix Committed > Status in “pam” source package in Oneiric: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > SRU justification: > libpam-modules is not multiarch-coinstallable because of unexplained > misgeneration of compressed manpages on the buildds in a previous run. This > makes it impossible to use pam authentication for foreign-arch software due > to the uninstallable modules, and also causes unpleasant upgrade issues. > > Test case: > 1) on amd64, enable armel in addition to i386 as a foreign architecture by > running: > echo 'foreign-architecture armel' >> > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch-armel > echo 'deb [arch=armel] http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ oneiric > main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list > apt-get update > 2) try to install libpam-modules for the other two architectures by > running 'apt-get install libpam-modules:i386 libpam-modules:armel' > 3) confirm that both packages fail to install. > 4) enable oneiric-proposed (including for armel above). > 5) try to install libpam-modules for all three architectures by running > 'apt-get install libpam-modules libpam-modules:i386 libpam-modules:armel' > 6) confirm that the packages install successfully. > > error while updating > > ProblemType: Package > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 > Package: libpam-modules 1.1.3-2ubuntu1 > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8 > Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64 > NonfreeKernelModules: wl > ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 > Architecture: amd64 > Date: Sat Oct 8 18:57:52 2011 > ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: './usr/share/man/man8/pam_shells.8.gz' is > different from the same file on the system > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 > (20110427.1) > SourcePackage: pam > Title: package libpam-modules 1.1.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: > ErrorMessage: './usr/share/man/man8/pam_shells.8.gz' is different from the > same file on the system > UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-09 (0 days ago) > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/871083/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871083 Title: package libpam-modules 1.1.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: './usr/share/man/man8/pam_shells.8.gz' is different from the same file on the system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/871083/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
