Re: [debian] problem with aptitude upgrade or dist-upgrade

Darren Salt wrote:

Thank you very much for your answer;
....
a) i really don't want to change my kernel until it's strictly necessary, i
simply want to be up-to-date, and obviously it includes updating libc

It'll be necessary sooner or later. It may already be a Very Good Idea due to
security fixes.

Ok i did it this morning (i have an AMD so i choose the last k7 kernel from testing- hope it is ok) but as usual, i went in a deadlock:

[snip]
My sources.list:
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ testing main

That's not etch. That's lenny.

Kernel: 2.6.7-1-386

Definitely worth a kernel upgrade, I'd say...

# aptitude install linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
busybox initramfs-tools klibc-utils libc6-i686 libklibc libvolume-id0 udev
The following packages have been kept back:
*lot-of-packages-listed*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
busybox initramfs-tools klibc-utils libc6-i686 libklibc libvolume-id0 linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7 udev
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6
1 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 912 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.2MB/24.9MB of archives. After unpacking 58.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main libc6-i686 2.6.1-1+b1 [1201kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main busybox 1:1.1.3-5 [287kB]

Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main libklibc 1.5-4 [43.3kB]

Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main klibc-utils 1.5-4 [161kB]

Get:5 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main initramfs-tools 0.90a [68.2kB]

Get:6 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7 2.6.22-4 [18.4MB]
Fetched 20.2MB in 1m20s (251kB/s)

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 147804 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.5-9+b1 (using .../libc6_2.6.1-1+b1_i386.deb) ...
WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version
2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it
before installing glibc.

The installation of a 2.6 kernel _could_ ask you to install a new libc
first, this is NOT a bug, and should *NOT* be reported. In that case,
please add etch sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run:
apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6
Then reboot into this new kernel, and proceed with your upgrade
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.6.1-1+b1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.6.1-1+b1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
------------------------------------------------------------------

I *am* trying to install a new kernel, why the hell they insert such weird code that asks to install a new kernel, when if you try you don't go nowhere, it ends in the same error (some time ago i tryed to do EXACTLY how it is suggested in the message but the result was the same as now).. ?


No way to get out of this situation?

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