Hello, Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from Lenny. I tried to hit ctrl-c and ctrl-d to abort aptitude but this didn't seem to work.
To give more information, I am running Squeeze amd64. I have not rebooted since these packages were installed. In my /etc/apt/sources.list I had Lenny repositories on lines below the Squeeze lines. I had done this a while ago on the advice on some webpage. I believe the idea was that if a package wasn't found in Squeeze, aptitude would fall back to the Lenny repositories. So packages from Lenny would only be used if those packages were not found in Squeeze. There was a particular package I wanted from Lenny at the time and this seemed like a reasonable way to install it (I do not remember what that package was). Assuming the advice about multiple repositories in sources.list was correct, I wonder why the linux-image packages were installed from Lenny? I think it may be because the Squeeze amd64 repository was for some reason (perhaps my mirror dropped it?) not accessible (when update was run, it gave Err on that line), so the Lenny repositories were considered the most relevant by aptitude. This is only a guess, without really knowing how it is supposed to work. I have tried to rectify the situation by commenting out the Lenny lines in sources.list , adding additional Squeeze lines to sources.list (to remedy the potential of the first mirror being down), then doing aptitude update and aptitude upgrade. I have also performed aptitude reinstall linux-image-amd64 . I do not think anything was installed because I did not see aptitude do anything after it had grabbed and unpacked the packages. Here is the output of a few commands to show you the current state of my system: $ cat /var/log/dpkg.log* | grep "linux\-" |grep "\ installed" |sort 2012-03-22 19:36:00 status installed linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 2.6.26-29 2012-03-22 19:36:08 status installed linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64 2.6.26-29 2012-03-22 19:36:08 status installed linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common 2.6.26-29 2012-03-22 20:46:54 status installed linux-image-amd64 2.6.32+29 $ aptitude search linux-headers |grep '^i' i A linux-headers-2.6-amd64 - Header files for Linux amd64 configuration i A linux-headers-2.6.26-2-amd64 - Header files for Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 i A linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common - Common header files for Linux 2.6.26-2 i A linux-headers-2.6.32-5-amd64 - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 i A linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common - Common header files for Linux 2.6.32-5 $ aptitude search linux-image |grep '^i' i linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 - Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64 i A linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 - Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs i linux-image-amd64 - Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) $ uname -mrs Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 x86_64 Any help or explanation would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAvq_=dh8fokku-wyygbxfsj4wkjurp174vpmvic7k-6ec1...@mail.gmail.com
