Re: Severe problems after upgrading some packages

nick.degraeve_at_telenet.be
Date: 08/10/05

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    I started with the company in February and at least since then the
    machine hasn't been updated.
    As I said I'm not really familiar with the package mechanism of Debian.
    Therefore I just surfed around and found that apt is the program so I
    just did 'apt-get install'.
    I investigated some more and I found that the sources.list has these
    entries:

    deb http://ftp.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.skynet.be/ftp/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
    deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib
    non-freedeb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US
    main contrib non-free
    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

    That's probably why it tried to install the latest packages. If I
    replace 'unstable' with 'woody' or download the affected packages by
    hand, can't I do a forced install of them?

    The machine is still up and I've got a gnome-terminal and firefox
    running. Starting new stuff doesn't work but the things that are
    started seem to work ok. In the console most stuff doesn't work but I
    can start Midnight Commander and that seems to be able to do
    everything.

    The other poster suggested upgrading the kernel. That isn't a viable
    solution? 

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