I acidently copied over /etc/apt/sources.list from another machien yesterday without copying over the /etc/apt/preferences file :-( The sources.list contained a reference to unstable, so, needles to say I hosed my nice workign woody machine.
A helpful list meber sugeset that I try removing the unstable reference, put the following in preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 1001 Do apt-get update & apt-get upgrade to downgrade the system to testing, which is where I want to be. Unfortunately, this is not working corectly. apt-get upgrade is dying like this: Script started on Sun Apr 14 10:56:41 2002 smokey:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be DOWNGRADED aalib1 abiword-common abiword-doc abiword-gnome abiword-gtk abiword-plugins amp apache apache-common apt-howto-en aptitude ash aspell aspell-doc aspell-en atlas2-3dnow bash bash-doc bsdgames calc cddb cdrecord-dev cpio cpp-3.0 crafty cvs ddd ddd-doc debconf debconf-utils debhelper defoma discover doc-linux-text eboard enscript fakeroot fortune-mod fortunes fortunes-bofh-excuses fortunes-mario fortunes-min fortunes-off gcc-3.0 gcc-3.0-base gdb gettext gettext-base gettext-el gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl glade-common glade-doc gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help-data gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal gnumeric-doc gpm grip gtkrecover imagemagick initrd-tools kaffe kfract kiconedit kpaint kruler ksnapshot kview lbxproxy less lg-base lha libart-dev libasound2 libaspell10 libcapplet0 libcapplet1 libdiscover1 libdps1 libeel-data libeel0 libgcc1 libgd2 libgimp1.2 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgnorba-dev libgpmg1 libgtkxmhtml-dev libgtkxmhtml1 libldap2 libmagick++5 libmagick5 libmd5-perl libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dbg libncursesw5-dev libnspr4 libnss3 libpanel-applet0 librpm4 libsane libscrollkeeper0 libsensors1 libsigc++0 libstdc++3 libstorable-perl libsword1 libterm-readkey-perl libxaw6 libxaw7 libxml2 libzvt2 mailx manpages manpages-dev mindi mkisofs modconf mpg123 mutt mutt-utf8 nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term nethack nethack-common nethack-x11 nighthawk ntop patch pdl perlmagick postgresql-doc powertweak-extra powertweak-gtk powertweakd procps proxymngr psfontmgr python python2.1 python2.2 r-base realpath reportbug rpm screen scrollkeeper sox stl-manual systune telnet telnetd tipa twm weblint webmin-apache xaw3dg xbase-clients xlibmesa3 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 169 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/109MB of archives. After unpacking 9033kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package gnome-gv. (Reading database ... 101572 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-gv 1.1.93-3 (using .../gnome-gv_1.1.93-3_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-gv ... scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory Registering /usr/share/omf/ggv/ggv-it.omf.dpkg-tmp scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: pthread_once dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory Registering /usr/share/omf/ggv/ggv-it.omf.dpkg-tmp scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: pthread_once dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-gv_1.1.93-3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127 scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory Registering /usr/share/omf/ggv/ggv-C.omf scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol: pthread_once dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 dpkg - warning: downgrading bash from 2.05a-11 to 2.05a-9. Preparing to replace bash 2.05a-11 (using .../archives/bash_2.05a-9_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bash ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-gv_1.1.93-3_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) smokey:/etc/apt# Script done on Sun Apr 14 10:57:01 2002 What can I do to fix this? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]