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

From: Carlos Sousa (csousa_at_tvtel.pt)
Date: 09/06/04

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    Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 22:38:14 +0100
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    On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote:
    [...]
    > It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even
    > relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems
    > here with tetex-base. When I try to correct the problem,
    > I get a system crash or even trigger a reboot.
    >
    > The system is a mixture of testing and unstable (pinned to
    > testing, but with several major applications upgraded).
    > I have had numerous instabilities lately, and thought
    > that I might improve the situation by upgrading to
    > unstable (my unstable box works just fine), but instead
    > things look worse than ever . . .
    >
    > For example, I was just going to try the following
    >
    > apt-get -f install
    > dpkg --configure -a
    >
    > but already at the first step, I get a reboot!!!????!!!
    > What could be causing this?

    Sure smells a lot like hardware trouble (memory?). Better be
    ready with your backups... 

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Carlos Sousa
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