Re: Upgrade to Edgy failing on X11R6 error


On 17/01/2007, at 9:09 AM, Dave M G wrote:

Ubuntu Users,

For various reasons, I wanted to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy. According
to this official site:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades

... Edgy Eft is the "current stable version". So I felt confident that
this should be a safe move.

No idea. I did a fresh install of Edgy (due to a completely new machine), but previously I've upgraded from previous-stable -> current-stable with only a few minor glitches (shameless plug: http:// gray.net.au/article.php?story=20051016111619198). That article on my blog has some hints about how you can get around the problems you are having.

I used this method to do the upgrade:

gksu "update-manager -c"

I'm not a big fan of upgrading the X server and associated libraries while it's still running. I usually drop to a command prompt and do the upgrades there:
1. Log out of Gnome/KDE/whatever.
2. Switch to a console (CTRL-ALT-F1) and log in.
3. Shutdown the X server:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
Replace "gdm" with "kdm" on Kubuntu, or in other cases "xdm"
4. Replace all instances of "Dapper" with "Edgy" in /etc/apt/ source.list:
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
(If you prefer a different editor, then that's fine too)
5. Finally, run the update:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade

If there are any problems, fix them before rebooting. Yes, a reboot is necessary, when moving up to the latest stable version, because it invariably involves a kernel upgrade too.

Despite my fibre-optic connection, it was going to take all night to
download, so I left it until this morning.

The speed of your connection is only as fast as the slowest link between you and the destination. Maybe you need to find a mirror that your ISP peers with or something? I have a 12Mbps synchronous link but rarely see more than about 2-3Mbps effective bandwidth due to slower upstream pipes. YMMV.

dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb (-- unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package kinput2-wnn
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ok. Looks like kinput2-wnn has a slightly odd dependancy setup. There are two options here:
1. remove kinput2-wnn and try the upgrade again, then re-install kinput2-wnn at the end
2. force x11-common to over-write stuff when it's installing.

If you opt for #2:
sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1% 3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb
then
sudo apt-get -f install
then
sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade

This page which has a list of common problems:
http://www.debianadmin.com/ubuntu-edgy-upgrade-common-problems-with- solutions.html

... It did not list my situation exactly.

Agreed.

So then I tried manually clearing out the /usr/X11R6/bin directory, and
running the update again. Same error. I tried deleting the offending
directory altogether. Same error.

Erm - don't do that. Why have a package management system if you're going to run around blowing away managed files on your own? Here's the problem. Ubuntu (dpkg actually) knows what package installed what files. The error you're getting isn't because of what's on the disk, it's because of what's in the package database. You could completely "rm -rf /usr/X11R6" and you'd STILL get the error during the upgrade! BTW - DON'T run that "rm -rf..."!!

I tried running the update manager again, and this time it said:

"It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the
package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a
terminal to fix this issue at first."

Yep - dpkg is confused. The "-f" means "Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place.". Read "man apt-get" for the full story.

So I ran that command:

sudo apt-get install -f

And it returns the same error.

Erm, not good.

Another web site recommended running the following:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

But that got me this error:

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: xserver-xorg is broken or not fully installed

Um yeh - YOU broke it. See my previous comments about removing managed files.

So, now the current status is that not only do I not have Edgy
installed. I can't upgrade or install anything with apt-get or Synaptic
because they always halt on an error that I have to fix my broken
packages. But neither Synaptic or apt-get will permit me to fix them
because of complaints about Xorg related packages.

Try and to a "dpkg -i --force-overwrite" as described earlier. If that fails, then try to do a "apt-get --reinstall x11-common" - you may need to add "--force-overwrite" to that as well.

How do I get out of this loop, and either get my system back to being
stable, or succeed in upgrading to Edgy?

I wouldn't recommend trying to roll-back to Dapper. Instead, I'd try to remove that kinput2-wnn package and try the upgrade again. Then if you really need special Japanese character handling (that's what kinput2-wnn does) then install it at the end.

Cheers,

James

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