I decided to abort a dist-upgrade from Sarge to Etch when some strange stuff started to happen durning the run up. I followed the upgrade steps in the release notes. Here's a synopsis: 1. updated sarge packages. 2. upgraded, nothing upgraded. 3. did an audit, nothing broken 4. changed sources.list to point to etch. 5. updated package lists. Looked OK, but then got stat errors. 6. updated package lists again, this time no errors. 7. Trial run/simulation for dist upgrade. Hit unmet dependencies on xfree86-common. 8. Abort upgrade.
Below is the full text of the upgrade, before I proceed and end up with a broken system does anyone have any suggestions or ideas as to what when wrong? Thanks. ---------------------Transcript---------------------------------------- [sirius]apt:# aptitude update [snip]... [sirius]apt:# aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done [sirius]apt:# dpkg --audit [sirius]apt:# cat sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US etch/non-US main contrib non-free #Backports from testing #deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable webmin # Debian Security deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates contrib #deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US etch non-US [sirius]apt:# [sirius]lists:# aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages [39.0kB] Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages [5638kB] Get:3 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Release [97B] Get:4 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages [20B] Get:5 http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Release [100B] Get:6 http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Release [95B] Get:7 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages [72.6kB] Get:8 http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Release [98B] Get:9 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages [102kB] Get:10 http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Release [99B] Fetched 5852kB in 14s (410kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_etch_non-free_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_etch_updates_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files W: You may want to update the package lists to correct these missing files [sirius]lists:# [sirius]apt:# aptitude update Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch/main Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch/contrib Release Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Packages Hit http://http.us.debian.org etch/non-free Release Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Release Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done [sirius]apt:# [sirius]apt:# aptitude -s -y -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following packages have unmet dependencies: xlibmesa-gl: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installable Conflicts: libgl1 which is a virtual package. libgl1-mesa-glx: Conflicts: libgl1 which is a virtual package. [sirius]apt:# -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
