On 04/27/2015 at 07:15 PM, Bill Baker wrote: > On 04/27/2015 07:05 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> A few thoughts: >> >> 1. Is there a reason why you need 'apt-get -f install packagename'? >> Does it error out if you just run 'apt-get install packagename'? > > I used -f because the output suggested I use it.
The output was suggesting 'apt-get -f install' as a standalone complete command, to let apt-get calculate a fix for the dependency situation on its own. If you're trying to specify a solution in any way, I think it's generally best to omit that option. >> 2. What happens if you try to install linux-image-586 instead, or >> even the specific-kernel-version package which it depends on >> (linux-image-3.16.0-4-586)? linux-image-486 is just a dummy >> package depending on the -586 package anyway. Even if it still >> fails, you may get a more helpful error message. > > Here is the output from sudo apt-get install linux-image-586: > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > consolekit : Breaks: udev (< 204-1) but 175-7.2 is to be installed > linux-image-586 : Depends: linux-image-3.16.0-4-586 but it is not going > to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or > specify a solution). So it doesn't help anything; the broken package dependencies are overriding everything else. In that case, I think I see two possible avenues forward (short of reinstalling the entire system, or doing complex gymnastics with a rescue environment): 1. Downgrade the packages which are leading to the broken-dependencies situation, so that you can upgrade the kernel package manually. This may be only consolekit, or it may extend to other packages as well. This could be very complicated, but it might work. 2. Download the .deb for a sufficiently-new kernel version, install it directly with dpkg rather than indirectly with apt-get, and proceed from there. I would recommend starting with approach 2. You should be able to get the needed .deb file from the 'security.debian.org' link here: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/i386/linux-image-3.16.0-4-586/download Download it locally, install it with 'dpkg -i linux-image-3.16.0-4-586_3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1_i386.deb', reboot into the new kernel, and run 'apt-get -f install'. (Yes, the filename is complicated.) That should get things moving again. If it doesn't, or if you have any problems along the way, report back and I'll see what else I can suggest. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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