Greetings Debian Gurus,
Well, I've learned a lot this week
about how Debian works in the real
world. Up to now I've just been
having a blissful run of beginner's
luck, it seems. The past five days
have seen me chasing down supposed
hardware incompatibilities, sifting
through partial, though excruciatingly
detailed (and sometimes just wrong)
advice on mailing lists and discussion,
boards, not to mention a generous
helping of sheer trial and error.
It has finally dawned on me that doing
a dist-upgrade from woody to sarge, at
this point in time, is simply broken.
The following message, returned from
'aptitude dist-upgrade', spells it out
succinctly:
"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:
e2fsprogs: PreDepends: libblkid1 (>= 1.34-1) but it
is not installable
PreDepends: libss2 (>= 1.34-1) but it is
not installable
PreDepends: libuuid1 (>= 1.34-1) but it
is not installable
coreutils: PreDepends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1) but it
is not installable
PreDepends: libattr1 (>= 2.4.4-1) but it
is not installable
dpkg: PreDepends: dselect but it is not installable
sysvinit: PreDepends: initscripts but it is not
installable
PreDepends: sysv-rc (>= 2.85-2) but it is
not installable or
file-rc (> 0.7.0) but it is
not installable"
This is after trying synaptic, apt-get,
dselect, and getting deeper into trouble,
at every step, with essentially the same
results, a non-functioning system.
So, my question:
Is there any way to back up in time to
a state where sarge is complete, and
therefore upgradable, even if it is
in a less than ideal state? I can always
move the perfected versions of these
packages into place after they are
more mature, but at least it would be
possible to use the system for awhile.
dpkg is indeed a wonderful thing,
when it works.Thanks in advance for
any straightforward hints, tips, etc.
If it is a long, command-line driven,
config file edit- ridden process, well,
that's what I switched to Debian to get
away from, after all.
Thanks for your consideration,
Jerry "stuck in woody-land" Spicklemire
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