Re: libc6 still breaking upgrade to unstable

2008-02-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
Your most pressing problem seems to be the "symbol _dl_out_of_memory" issue, which blocks the libc6 upgrade. The BTS suggests that it is possible to work around this problem by removing /lib/tls/* and then continuing the upgrade. You can find further details in this bug report: http://bugs.debian.

Re: libc6 still breaking upgrade to unstable

2008-02-21 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:18:43PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: [snip] > Might there be a way around this failure? It's possible to upgrade from etch to sid if you upgrade libc6 to the version in testing. You may need to upgrade a couple of other things along with it; I'm not certain. -- Benjamin

libc6 still breaking upgrade to unstable

2008-02-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Script started on Thu 21 Feb 2008 09:11:05 PM EST myhome:~# aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... 0% Reading package lists... 100% Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... 50% Building dependency tree...

Re: what should I do before dist-upgrade to unstable

2005-09-22 Thread Alvaro
Thank you very much. I just have to install those packages? because I don't have them or I should excute the commands?? I would also know where I should read if that situation with the sid packages was solved or not. In the last weekly debian news there is no advice (maybe I should read them regul

Re: what should I do before dist-upgrade to unstable

2005-09-22 Thread NENO
I consider the command should be aptitude update firstly rather than aptitude upgrade.Maybe your type mistake,hopefully. 22 Sep 2005 17:45:04 -0700, Alvaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi list. > > I have been using debian/testing for a year long. I would like to have > the leatest software (eg. latest

Re: what should I do before dist-upgrade to unstable

2005-09-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Alvaro wrote: Hi list. I have been using debian/testing for a year long. I would like to have the leatest software (eg. latest kde). Therefore, I want to update to unstable. I read somewhere that unstable is as stable as any other distributions (latest suse) I know I have to do: edit source.li

what should I do before dist-upgrade to unstable

2005-09-22 Thread Alvaro
Hi list. I have been using debian/testing for a year long. I would like to have the leatest software (eg. latest kde). Therefore, I want to update to unstable. I read somewhere that unstable is as stable as any other distributions (latest suse) I know I have to do: edit source.list aptitude upgr

Re: upgrade to unstable problem

2004-03-08 Thread Alexis Huxley
> Things seem to work fine sofar, but several times during the upgrade, > I got the following error: > devconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde > Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC( > > and now I see the same error when installing other packages > Anyone Have any ideas about this? > > Is it s

upgrade to unstable problem

2004-03-07 Thread Bill
I have upgraded from testing to unstable by changing sources.list dselect update dselect select dselect install Things seem to work fine sofar, but several times during the upgrade, I got the following error: devconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC( and now I

Re: Doing a dist-upgrade to unstable

2004-01-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Joseph! On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:06:21AM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Does anyone know if the gimp1.3 packages include GIF support now that the patent on GIF has expired? I guess they don't, but you could install gimp1.3-nonfree - GIF support for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. B

Re: Doing a dist-upgrade to unstable

2004-01-07 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 at 13:06 GMT, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. penned: > Does anyone know if the gimp1.3 packages include GIF support now that > the patent on GIF has expired? Could you please make your topic bear a little more obvious resemblance to your actual question? Something like "Is GIF support na

Doing a dist-upgrade to unstable

2004-01-07 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Does anyone know if the gimp1.3 packages include GIF support now that the patent on GIF has expired? -- Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. Student at Motlow State Community College Political Activist Extrodinaire The only fallacy is the inaction on our part to stave off the worst of horrors, the stripping of pe

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 18:46, Michael Kahle wrote: > James Strandboge wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:28, Michael Kahle wrote: > >>>Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed? > >> > >> Yes I did. I was runny woody. I then installed the backport at a > >> later date. I the decided to

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
James Strandboge wrote: >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:28, Michael Kahle wrote: >>>Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed? >> >> Yes I did. I was runny woody. I then installed the backport at a >> later date. I the decided to switch to testing. >> >Glad dselect helped. It is not recom

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:28, Michael Kahle wrote: > > > >Did you have the gnome2.2 woody backport installed? > > Yes I did. I was runny woody. I then installed the backport at a later > date. I the decided to switch to testing. > Glad dselect helped. It is not recommended to go from the back

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
James Strandboge wrote: >On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:20, Michael Kahle wrote: >> >Michael Kahle wrote: >> >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >> >> >> >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxren

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:20, Michael Kahle wrote: > >Michael Kahle wrote: > >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... > >> > >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to > >> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with > >> 'div

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
>>Michael Kahle wrote: >>> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >>> >>> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >>> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >>> 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >>> /usr/sha

RE: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Kahle
>Michael Kahle wrote: >> I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... >> >> dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with >> 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to >> /usr/share/lib

Re: failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-17 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi, * Michael Kahle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030917 13:22]: > Hello, > > I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... > > dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with 'diversion > of /usr/X11R6/l

failed upgrade to unstable... libxrender1

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Kahle
Hello, I am getting an error when upgrading my distribution to unstable... dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender-1.1.so.1 by libxrender1' clashes with 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 to /usr/share/libxrender1.1/diversions/libXrender.so

Upgrade to unstable broke my samba

2003-06-19 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings
Hi All, Upgrading from stable to unstable broke my Samba, since it upgraded to 3.0something. I have much troubles with it. It looks to me like it does not get my smbpasswd file anymore, but now tries to use some kind of database... I did have a look in /usr/share/doc and on the Samba website, bu

upgrade to unstable: python-extclass

2002-05-25 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Hi. I just upgraded to sid. Everything seemed to go fine except that python-extclass won't fully install or uninstall. I get an error code 1 from subprocess /usr/bin/dpkg. I tried removing, reinstalling, etc. When I tried with --fix-missing, I got a more verbose explanation: Setting up python-extc

Upgrade to Unstable

2001-10-22 Thread Doc - KD4E
Just did the Unstable upgrade from Progeny: # apt-get update # dpkg --purge --force-deps libfreetype6 # apt-get -f dist-upgrade. I bypassed the recommended shut down of PCMCIA for fear of losing PCMCIA entirely and having to start all over again! I presume that I need to reboot to see the results

Re: upgrade to unstable: dselect maddness? help!

2001-08-12 Thread Chris Cothrun
{snip misc whining} > I've been using dselect but it seems to get itself > stuck into a weird dependancy thing so I need some > advice here: OK, I seem to have eliminated most of the weirdness by a lucky combination of carefully eliminating the stuff that didn't want to cooperate - either by re

upgrade to unstable: dselect maddness? help!

2001-08-12 Thread Chris Cothrun
Hi I'm setting up Debian on a computer to be used as a part time web surfing box and to use as a developmental web server and to better learn about Linux as a whole. I installed potato but it didn't seem to easily allow me to grab newer packages I wanted. I managed to hose my system (at least

Re: circular dependency : failed dist-upgrade to unstable

2001-06-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I tried to upgrade my debian (potato, with kernel 2.2.19) to unstable >using apt, after editing sources.list. Howver the process stoped >reporting errors of unmet dependencies . So I tried to do "atp-get -f >install" as suggested but even this bails out with the error mess

circular dependency : failed dist-upgrade to unstable

2001-06-14 Thread Balbir Thomas
Hi I tried to upgrade my debian (potato, with kernel 2.2.19) to unstable using apt, after editing sources.list. Howver the process stoped reporting errors of unmet dependencies . So I tried to do "atp-get -f install" as suggested but even this bails out with the error message : perl: /lib/libc.s

Re: Upgrade to unstable

2001-04-10 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
On 10 Apr 2001, Jorge Santos wrote: > > I'm thinking on upgrading the machine I use at work to unstable, but I > can't afford too much time fixing problems since I have to get *some* > work done :). So I was wondering, have anyone here done the upgrade > and would like to share some comments? It

Upgrade to unstable

2001-04-10 Thread Jorge Santos
I'm thinking on upgrading the machine I use at work to unstable, but I can't afford too much time fixing problems since I have to get *some* work done :). So I was wondering, have anyone here done the upgrade and would like to share some comments? jorge santos

Re: what will fail if I upgrade to "unstable"?

2000-10-26 Thread John Hasler
Krzys Majewski writes: > Anybody ugraded from "stable" to "unstable" lately? (I refuse to keep up > with the silly Toy Story names.) I sympathise. > What breaks? The recent libc6 breakage is supposedly fixed, but I am still having network problems, and I've seen reports indicating that others ar

what will fail if I upgrade to "unstable"?

2000-10-26 Thread Krzys Majewski
Anybody ugraded from "stable" to "unstable" lately? (I refuse to keep up with the silly Toy Story names.) What breaks? -chris

Re: system fubar after attempted upgrade to unstable, what now?

1999-11-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 11:43:52 -0900, Britton wrote: > can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/ > 5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site-perl/i386-linux ^ > What should I do first to try to fix my system? If you have perl5.005 installed, make sure /usr/b

system fubar after attempted upgrade to unstable, what now?

1999-11-05 Thread Britton
Like the idiot that I am, I didn't read things beforehand since I hadn't heard any buzz about not using dselect, and I know people who are using unstable happily. So I pointed the ftp upgrad option to unstable, downloaded everything, tried to install it, and apparently really screwed things up ba

Re: Problems in upgrade to unstable...

1998-02-07 Thread Ralph Winslow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. > The most recent is this... > > When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... > > Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /u

Re: Problems in upgrade to unstable...

1998-02-07 Thread Jeremy Tregunna
I had that exact same problem with my first upgrade to libc6 (i've done 2). What I did to correct it was, i removed all the libc6 packages, and re-ran the auto-upgrade script i had, but this time i used perl_5.004.04-3.deb and not perl_5.004.04-4.deb... (I also had a POSIX problem with it too adde

Problems in upgrade to unstable...

1998-02-07 Thread ockman
Just upgraded to hammfollowed the faq but am still having some problems. The most recent is this... When I run dselect, and pick the option to install I get this... Can't locate Net/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i3

Re: libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable

1997-07-01 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: > 1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install >libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on >libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. Get and install the newest libread

Re: libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable

1997-06-29 Thread Mark Baker
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote: > 1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install >libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on >libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. You need to have first installed a

libreadlineg2 and upgrade to unstable

1997-06-29 Thread Andrew Martin Adrian Cater
1. Can anybody tell me how to satisfy the dependencies etc. to install libreadlineg2 (ftp'd from master.debian.org). Using dpkg -r on libreadline doesn't work as it's needed by other packages. 2. Have tried to install chimera2 but the install fails on postinst with a message about not