I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" in order to upgrade to slink. Yes, I know slink is "unstable" so I might get some trouble.
Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: I noticed that "startx" disappeared! Ok, this is probably temporary, I thought. The new xserver package was not yet configured. Then apt-get ended with an error. I tried re-running "apt-get dist-upgrade" and "dpkg --configure -a" several times, and the problem seemed to be with the emacs20 package. It could not be configured, any attempt ends in "memory errors" or "subprocess returned an error" I wanted X back, so I decided to get rid of emacs instead. I don't use it much anyway. "dpkg -r <emacs-packages>" removed everything except from emacs20: "The package is in a very bad inconsistent state - reinstall it before removing" Now this is a message even microsoft couldn't done better... I can't install emacs20 because that doesn't work. It fails without giving me any clues. Removing it is impossible also, only this stupid idea that I should install it first. "dpkg --purge emacs20" has the same problems as "dpkg -r emacs20" The root partition is 95% full, I don't get any "no space left" messages but wonder if this may be a problem anyway. I would like to get rid of this emacs20 nonsense so the x-server and a few other remaining packages can be configured. any ideas to what I should do now? Helge Hafting
