On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-10-11 03:44 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >> Package: upgrade-reports >> Severity: normal > > I'm afraid the severity might have to be bumped to grave if other > people see this problem as well. > >> I'm trying to upgrade a fresh Etch install to Lenny. I've hit a speedbump, >> it seems, see below. >> How should I (or a normal user) solve this? >> >> Olaf >> >> # aptitude full-upgrade > [snip] >> E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential >> package initscripts due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, >> but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. >> E: Internal Error, Could not early remove initscripts > > Can you please try "aptitude -s install initscripts"? That might give > an idea which package is causing the dependency loop.
# aptitude -s install initscripts Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: initscripts The following packages will be upgraded: libselinux1 libsepol1 sysvinit-utils 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 230 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/347kB of archives. After unpacking 102kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: initscripts: Conflicts: insserv (< 1.09.0-12) but 1.08.0-11 is installed and it is kept back. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Upgrade the following packages: insserv [1.08.0-11 (now) -> 1.12.0-4 (testing)] Score is 120 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] The following packages will be upgraded: initscripts insserv libselinux1 libsepol1 sysvinit-utils 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/413kB of archives. After unpacking 426kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Would download/install/remove packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
