Hi, the provident upgrade instructions mention my problem under https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgrading.en.html#file-conflicts But the proposed remedy dpkg -r --force-depends package_name does not help, because the package gnome-themes-extra-data is stuck in limbo beyond what i can manage to achieve by Debian tools.
Brute force helped after i decided to root out gnome-themes-extra and its helper gnome-themes-extra-data: I removed the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-themes-extra:amd64.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-themes-extra:amd64.md5sums In /var/lib/dpkg/status i removed the sections under Package: gnome-themes-extra and Package: gnome-themes-extra-data This enabled a long run of apt --fix-broken install which ended without error indication. service ssh restart still refused with the new error message Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 91: Bad key types '+ssh-dss'. So i commented out the line PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-dss and repeated service ssh start No complaints any more. I can log in from the host with a third ssh session. It is time to reboot ... yay ! Login still works \o/ Now i should sanitize /etc/ssh/sshd_config for the future upgrades. /etc/apt/sources.list needs to get back to "unstable" from trixie. Then again a dist-upgrade to "forky" Sid and migration to the new sources format. But first a backup of the disk image. :)) Long story: ======================================================================= I follow the "file-conflicts" instructions and do: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # dpkg -r --force-depends gnome-themes-extra-data dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnome-themes-extra-data which isn't installed # apt --fix-broken install ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-themes-extra-data_3.28-4_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/apps.rc', which is also in package gnome-themes-standard-data (3.22.3-1) ... Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I am becomming impatient: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # rm /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-themes-extra-data_3.28-4_all.deb # apt --fix-broken install ... Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 gnome-themes-extra-data all 3.28-4 [571 kB] ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-themes-extra-data_3.28-4_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/apps.rc', which is also in package gnome-themes-standard-data (3.22.3-1) ... Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # rm /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-themes-extra-data_3.28-4_all.deb # apt --fix-broken --no-download install ... Error: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? # apt --fix-broken --ignore-missing --no-download install ... Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. # apt-mark showhold # # dpkg -r --force-depends gnome-themes-standard-data dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove gnome-themes-extra-data which isn't installed # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Next i asked the internet. It gave me https://www.baeldung.com/linux/dpkg-error-two-solution In /var/lib/dpkg/status it looks like gnome-themes-extra-data is used only by gnome-themes-extra which seems not needed by anything else. So as proposed in above article i remove related files: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-themes-extra:amd64.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/gnome-themes-extra:amd64.md5sums /tmp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- and i remove in file /var/lib/dpkg/status the sections for gnome-themes-extra and gnome-themes-extra-data: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Package: gnome-themes-extra Status: install ok unpacked Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 534 Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Version: 3.28-4 Depends: gnome-themes-extra-data (>= 3.28-4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0t64 (>= 2.38.0), gtk2-engines-pixbuf Recommends: gnome-accessibility-themes, adwaita-icon-theme Description: Adwaita GTK 2 theme — engine This is the version of Adwaita, the standard GNOME theme, for the GTK 2.x toolkit. . The GTK 3.x version is already included in libgtk-3-0. . This package contains the Adwaita theme engine. Package: gnome-themes-extra-data Status: deinstall ok not-installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Then once again ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # apt --fix-broken install ... ... lots of "Setting up", "Installing new version of config file" ... ... Setting up openssh-server (1:10.0p1-7) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/sshd ... Installing new version of config file /etc/ssh/moduli ... /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 16: Deprecated option UsePrivilegeSeparation /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 19: Deprecated option KeyRegenerationInterval /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 20: Deprecated option ServerKeyBits /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 31: Deprecated option RSAAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 38: Deprecated option RhostsRSAAuthentication /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 91: Bad key types '+ssh-dss'. Finishing upgrade from pre-9.8 monolithic sshd ... Removing 'diversion of /usr/sbin/sshd to /usr/sbin/sshd.session-split by openssh-client' Could not execute systemctl: at /usr/bin/deb-systemd-invoke line 148. ssh.socket is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it. Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/ssh.service.wants/sshd-keygen.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd-keygen.service'. Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/sshd.service.wants/sshd-keygen.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd-keygen.service'. Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/sshd@.service.wants/sshd-keygen.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd-keygen.service'. Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/ssh.socket.wants/sshd-keygen.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd-keygen.service'. ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.41-12) ... # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Still no ssh service. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # service ssh restart Job for ssh.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status ssh.service" and "journalctl -xeu ssh.service" for details. # journalctl -xeu ssh.service ... Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 16: Deprecated o ption UsePrivilegeSeparation Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 19: Deprecated o ption KeyRegenerationInterval Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 20: Deprecated o ption ServerKeyBits Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 31: Deprecated o ption RSAAuthentication Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 38: Deprecated o ption RhostsRSAAuthentication Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid sshd[103708]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 91: Bad key type s '+ssh-dss'. Sep 12 19:30:01 ts6-sid systemd[1]: ssh.service: Control process exited, code=ex ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A new problem with the new ssh server. So i comment out in /etc/ssh/sshd_config the line with: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # To re-enable my SSH DSA key # PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes +ssh-dss ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Holding my breath i do: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # service ssh start ----------------------------------------------------------------------- And i can log in from the host machine $ ssh -p 5557 thomas@localhost ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # journalctl -xeu ssh.service ... Sep 12 19:34:16 ts6-sid sshd-session[103738]: Accepted publickey for thomas from 10.0.2.2 port 41882 ssh2: RSA ... Sep 12 19:34:16 ts6-sid sshd-session[103738]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user thomas(uid=...) by thomas(uid=...) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Have a nice day :) Thomas
