On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:17, Marty wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote: > >> tom arnall wrote: > >> > i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: > >> > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r > >> > 2.6.16.4 > >> > > >> > so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 > >> > not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting: > >> > > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > >> > >> It was doomed from the start. apt-get does not have the intelligence, > >> as do the apt front ends, essential for all but the most trivial > >> upgrades. Of those I can only vouch for personal favorite, dselect. > > > > judging from the menu for dselect, there does not seem to be a way to do > > a dist-upgrade, only install like with 'apt-get install'. > > That's correct. I never explicitly upgraded from one distribution to > another with dselect. I merely pointed to the newer distribution's > repository (via sources.list) and dselect did the rest. I think > dist-upgrade is an apt-get specific thing, and I'm not exactly what it > does, other than repeatedly break users' debian systems and thus prompt > frequent problem reports here. > > Nevertheless if you follow through with dselect then I think it will > probably recover your system.
Marty, should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing sources.list to the new repository. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gdk-imlib1 gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 31 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done (Reading database ... 203060 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-wlan-ng 0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1 (using .../linux-w lan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-wlan-ng ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl -1etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gdk-imlib1 gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 31 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done (Reading database ... 203060 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-wlan-ng 0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1 (using .../linux-w lan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-wlan-ng ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl -1etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb hold | dp kg --set-selections [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gdk-imlib1 gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 31 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done (Reading database ... 203060 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-wlan-ng 0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1 (using .../linux-w lan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-wlan-ng ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl -1etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386 hold | dpkg - -set-selections [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: gdk-imlib1 gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 31 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done (Reading database ... 203060 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-wlan-ng 0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1 (using .../linux-w lan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-wlan-ng ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl -1etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man dselect Reformatting dselect(1), please wait... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386 install | dpk g --set-selections [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb install | dpkg --set-selections [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dselect running dpkg --pending --configure ... dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege dpkg --configure returned error exit status 2. Press <enter> to continue. running dpkg --pending --remove ... dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege dpkg --remove returned error exit status 2. Press <enter> to continue. I see you already have a source list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ## etch - Debian (currently etch) deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you wish to overwrite it? [y/N] N Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libgksuui1.0-0 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 pidgin-data The following NEW packages will be installed: libgksuui1.0-1 libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 31 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 1674kB/1791kB of archives. After unpacking 17.0MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main gnome-cups-manager 0.31-3 [239kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-3 [92.7kB] Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main libgksuui1.0-1 1.0.7-1 [23.9kB] Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main gnome-system-monitor 2.14.5-1 [1318kB] Fetched 1674kB in 20s (83.3kB/s) /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:400: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:409: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 0%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 20%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 40%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 60%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 80%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:77: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro /bin in PATH, mode 040777 Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]? apt-listchanges: Mailing root: apt-listchanges: changelogs for debian debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwor ds.dat: Permission denied dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege installation script returned error exit status 100. Press <enter> to continue. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dselect Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: libgksuui1.0-0 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 pidgin-data The following NEW packages will be installed: libgksuui1.0-1 libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 31 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1791kB of archives. After unpacking 17.0MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 203060 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace linux-wlan-ng 0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1 (using .../linux-w lan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement linux-wlan-ng ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl -1etch1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-wlan-ng_0.2.5+dfsg+prism2dl-1etch1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. Setting up libpq4 (8.1.11-0etch1) ... Setting up libxml2 (2.6.27.dfsg-2) ... Setting up module-init-tools (3.3-pre4-2) ... Setting up libdns22 (9.3.4-2etch1) ... Setting up libopal-2.2.0 (2.2.3.dfsg-3+etch1) ... Setting up hpijs (2.6.10+1.6.10-3etch1) ... Setting up libxfont1 (1.2.2-2.etch1) ... Setting up nautilus-data (2.14.3-11) ... Setting up modutils (2.4.27.0-6) ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up apt-listchanges (2.72.5etch2) ... Setting up libeel2-2.14 (2.14.3-5) ... Setting up libdaemon0 (0.10-1) ... Setting up libxml2-utils (2.6.27.dfsg-2) ... Setting up libisccfg1 (9.3.4-2etch1) ... Setting up libavahi-core4 (0.6.16-3etch1) ... Setting up nautilus (2.14.3-11+b1) ... Setting up hpijs-ppds (2.6.10+1.6.10-3etch1) ... Forcing CUPS to reload available PPD list... Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd. Setting up libxml2-dev (2.6.27.dfsg-2) ... Setting up hplip-data (1.6.10-3etch1) ... Setting up python-libxml2 (2.6.27.dfsg-2) ... Setting up ekiga (2.0.3-6) ... Setting up avahi-daemon (0.6.16-3etch1) ... Reloading system message bus config...done. Restarting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon. Setting up nautilus-cd-burner (2.14.3-8+b1) ... Setting up libbind9-0 (9.3.4-2etch1) ... Setting up xserver-xorg-core (1.1.1-21etch3) ... Setting up libxfont-dev (1.2.2-2.etch1) ... Setting up bind9-host (9.3.4-2etch1) ... Setting up libnss-mdns (0.9-0.2) ... Upgrade from unconfigured version detected. Checking NSS setup... Setting up gnomemeeting (2.0.3-6) ... Setting up dnsutils (9.3.4-2etch1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: modutils installation script returned error exit status 100. Press <enter> to continue. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dselect Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: airsnort libgksuui1.0-0 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 linux-wlan-ng pidgin-data The following NEW packages will be installed: libgksuui1.0-1 libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 5 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1674kB of archives. After unpacking 17.6MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:400: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:409: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 0%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 25%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 50%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... 75%/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:936: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro/bin in PATH, mode 040777 Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/debian.rb:77: warning: Insecure world writable dir /home/kloro /bin in PATH, mode 040777 Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwor ds.dat: Permission denied dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege installation script returned error exit status 100. Press <enter> to continue. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dselect Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: airsnort libgksuui1.0-0 libgnomecupsui1.0-1 linux-wlan-ng pidgin-data The following NEW packages will be installed: libgksuui1.0-1 libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-cups-manager gnome-system-monitor 2 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 5 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1674kB of archives. After unpacking 17.6MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done dpkg: error processing linux-wlan-ng (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. (Reading database ... 203059 files and directories currently installed.) Removing airsnort ... Removing libgksuui1.0-0 ... Errors were encountered while processing: linux-wlan-ng E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue. Setting up modutils (2.4.27.0-6) ... /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found Error while executing /etc/modutils/0keep, aborting Note: If /etc/modutils/0keep should not be an executable script, please ensure i t does not have execute permission dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: modutils installation script returned error exit status 100. Press <enter> to continue. 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