At 08:32 7/10/2002 -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: >Hi, >What does your /etc/apt/sources.list say?
Hello, deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main Iinet is my local ISP with a debian mirror. Regards, Chris. >Mike > >Quoting Chris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi! > > Firstly, my apologies if this is the wrong forum to post to, but from what > > I've seen it seems like it's the correct place. > > > > I am having a strange apt-get upgrade issue on one of our production boxes: > > > > xxxxxx:~# apt-get update > > [this works fine] > > > > xxxxxx:~# apt-get upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed > > locales: Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.3-24) but 2.1.3-23 is installed > > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > > > xxxxxx:~# apt-get -f upgrade > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Correcting dependencies... Done > > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > > Need to get 0B/1901kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > > dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb > > (--unpack): > > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.1.3-24_i386.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > I've searched through the mailing list archives and found one post where > > someone had the same problem, but it "mysteriously went away". > > Sometimes If I manually unpack the archives using dpkg-deb --unpack it > > works. It's very transient - that is to say, sometimes it will just work. > > for example, i can issue the exact same command line twice in a row and > the > > second or third time it will just work. > > > > It's still a potato system. > > > > Any help at all appreciated. > > > > Regards, > > > > Chris. > > ______________________________________________________ > > Chris McCormick - Systems Developer - PerthWeb Pty Ltd > > Internet Solutions for your business! > > Level 9/105 St George's Tc - Perth - Western Australia > > Ph: (08) 9226 1366 Fax: (08) 9226 1375 > > Visit Perth online! : www.perthweb.com.au > > PGP Key = http://www.perthweb.com.au/~chris/public.txt > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------- >This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________ Chris McCormick - Systems Developer - PerthWeb Pty Ltd Internet Solutions for your business! Level 9/105 St George's Tc - Perth - Western Australia Ph: (08) 9226 1366 Fax: (08) 9226 1375 Visit Perth online! : www.perthweb.com.au PGP Key = http://www.perthweb.com.au/~chris/public.txt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
