Re: kernel, udev, hal problems

From: Roberto C. Sanchez (roberto_at_familiasanchez.net)
Date: 09/19/05

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    Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:07:09 -0400
To: Wei Chen <newdny-list@yahoo.com.cn>

    On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:26:19PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I met a problem today when I was trying to 'apt-get upgrade' my testing debian. Now apt doesnt allow me to install any packages, like this:
    >
    > # apt-get install wordnet-dev
    > 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:
    > hal: Depends: udev (>= 0.063) but 0.056-3 is to be installed
    > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
    >
    > And when I do 'apt-get -f install', it says that:
    >
    > # apt-get -f install
    > Reading Package Lists... Done
    > Building Dependency Tree... Done
    > Correcting dependencies... Done
    > The following extra packages will be installed:
    > udev
    > The following packages will be upgraded:
    > udev
    > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    > 1 not fully installed or removed.
    > Need to get 0B/310kB of archives.
    > After unpacking 270kB of additional disk space will be used.
    > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
    > (Reading database ... 123001 files and directories currently installed.)
    > Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb) ...
    > udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
    > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
    > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
    > Errors were encountered while processing:
    > /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb
    > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    >
    > Does it mean that I have to upgrade the kernel? And if so, how should I do that? Because apt dont let me install any package now...
    >
    > BTW, I am wondering that if the new kernel installation command should be 'apt-get install linux-image-686' on my P4 machine.
    >
    > Any Clue? Thank you in advance.
    >

    1. Please don't thread hijack.

    2. Have you done an `apt-get update` recently?

    -Roberto 

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