Hi,
I run a somewhat out of date installation of Testing. When trying to
update
some packages, apt-get fails with the following message:
---
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often
bad, but
if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs"
---
From 'man apt-get':
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Force-LoopBreak
Never Enable this option unless you -really- know what
you are
doing. It per-
mits APT to temporarily remove an essential package to
break a
Conflicts/Con-
flicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop between two
essential
packages. SUCH A
LOOP SHOULD NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This
option
will work if the
essential packages are not tar, gzip, libc, dpkg, bash or
anything that those
packages depend on.
---
I do -not- really know what I am doing :). How / where should I report
this
"GRAVE BUG", and how might I solve this problem? Is it safe to do a
'Force-
LoopBreak' in this case?
I can supply the output of 'dpkg -l' and the exact list of packages
that I was
attempting to install / upgrade upon request.
