On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm, that looks fairly normal. Probably it would work if you upgrade > initscripts before the full-upgrade. However, it does not explain why > apt wanted to temporarily remove initscripts in the first place. This > looks like a bug in apt, reassigning.
# aptitude install initscripts Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Writing extended state information... 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/?] Writing extended state information... Done 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 A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
