sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

From: Will Trillich (will_at_serensoft.com)
Date: 09/06/04

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    f.y.i.

    in trying an upgrade (dist-upgrade) from woody to sarge, we ran
    into trouble with the following sympoms:

    root@www# apt-get -f install postgresql
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      gnome-control-center: Depends: capplets (= 1:2.6.1-12) but it is not going to be installed
      gnome-core: Depends: yelp (>= 2.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
      gnome-panel: Depends: gnome-desktop-data (>= 2.6.1-2) but it is not going to be installed
      nautilus: Depends: capplets (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
      postgresql: Depends: postgresql-client (>= 7.4) but 7.2.1-2woody5 is to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

    root@www# apt-get -f install
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    Correcting dependencies... Done
    The following extra packages will be installed:
      capplets capplets-data gnome-desktop-data postgresql postgresql-client yelp
    Suggested packages:
      xscreensaver xbase-clients gstreamer0.8-oss gstreamer0.8-esd libpgjava libpgtcl postgresql-dev
      postgresql-contrib pgdocs pgaccess python-pygresql pgmonitor
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      capplets capplets-data gnome-desktop-data yelp
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      postgresql postgresql-client
    2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
    151 not fully installed or removed.
    Need to get 0B/7096kB of archives.
    After unpacking 18.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    dpkg: error processing postgresql (--remove):
     Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
     reinstall it before attempting a removal.
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     postgresql
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    root@www# apt-get -f remove postgresql
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
      gnome-control-center: Depends: capplets (= 1:2.6.1-12) but it is not going to be installed
      gnome-core: Depends: yelp (>= 2.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
      gnome-panel: Depends: gnome-desktop-data (>= 2.6.1-2) but it is not going to be installed
      nautilus: Depends: capplets (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

    root@www# dpkg -l postg\*
    Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
    | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
    |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
    ||/ Name Version Description
    +++-====================-====================-========================================================
    un postgres95 <none> (no description available)
    un postgres95-dev <none> (no description available)
    rHR postgresql 7.2.1-2woody5 Object-relational SQL database, descended from POSTGRES.
    ii postgresql-client 7.2.1-2woody5 Front-end programs for PostgreSQL
    pn postgresql-contrib <none> (no description available)
    pn postgresql-dev <none> (no description available)
    ii postgresql-doc 7.4.3-3 Documentation for the PostgreSQL database
    pn postgresql-pl <none> (no description available)
    pn postgresql-slink <none> (no description available)
    pn postgresql-test <none> (no description available)

    our solution was:

    - perl -pi -e 's/\bsarge\b/woody/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
    - apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
    - apt-get remove postgresql
    - perl -pi -e 's/\bwoody\b/sarge/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
    - apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
    - apt-get install postgresql

    hoo boy!

    our main suspect, for what caused this, is US, of course (pebkac
    and ID-10-T come to mind). but we're not really sure. just in
    case we're not the only ones, thought we'd send a flare... 

    -- 
I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
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DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #106 from Joost Kooij <joost@topaz.mdcc.cx>
:
Wondering HOW TO GET CPAN MODULES FOR PERL THAT ARE
DEBIAN-FRIENDLY? Many perl modules are already Debianized:
	apt-get install lib<MODULE>-perl
	apt-get install libdbi-perl libmd5-perl libmime-base64-perl
To recover from using CPAN installs directly, reinstall all the
perl debs on your system.  If you use the --reinstall option to
apt-get, it is almost easy, even.
  To create Debian-friendly *.deb packages from Perl modules,
	apt-get install dh-perl-make
and then you can build your own.
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
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