Package: installation-reports Severity: important
-- Package-specific info: Boot method: network upgrade from within working lenny Image version: deb ftp://mirror.hetzner.de/debian/packages squeeze main contrib non-free Date: 11 May 2011 Machine: AMD64 X2 Partitions: /dev/md1 251M 49M 190M 21% /boot /dev/md2 460G 2.4G 435G 1% / Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [O] Configure network: [O] Detect CD: [n/a] Load installer modules: [n/a] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [n/a] Install base system: [O] Clock/timezone setup: [O] User/password setup: [O] Install tasks: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Overall install: [E] Comments/Problems: I was upgrading Debian lenny to squeeze following the debian upgrade guide at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html The install went overall well (reboots with grub2 OK, services apache2 running, ...). However, there were some packages left over from lenny. (dpkg --list | grep lenny) showed e.g. libltdl3 among others. My strategy was to remove the package (and its reverse dependencies) with apt-get remove libltdl3, which also removed php5-mcrypt and phpmyadmin. But trying to install phpmyadmin (thinking it would pull php5-mcrypt and libltdl7) failed, with the following error message: mweber@www:~$ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin [sudo] password for mweber: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: phpmyadmin : Depends: php5-mcrypt but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages mweber@www:~$ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: php5-mcrypt : Depends: libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2) but it is not installable E: Broken packages In fact the package information, when asked as root, confirms this problem: www:~# apt-cache show php5-mcrypt Package: php5-mcrypt Source: php5 Version: 5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Guillaume Plessis <g...@php.net> Installed-Size: 52 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2), libmcrypt4, phpapi-20060613, php5-common (= 5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0) Filename: dists/lenny/php5/binary-amd64/php5-mcrypt_5.2.17-0.dotdeb.0_amd64.deb [...cut...] After a fresh ssh login to the server, asking as a user, showed: mweber@www:~$ apt-cache show php5-mcrypt Package: php5-mcrypt Priority: optional Section: php Installed-Size: 100 Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Source: php5 Version: 5.3.3-7 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libltdl7 (>= 2.2.6b), libmcrypt4, phpapi-20090626, php5-common (= 5.3.3-7) Filename: pool/main/p/php5/php5-mcrypt_5.3.3-7_amd64.deb Size: 15170 [...cut...] After sudo this was not shown again. Therefore I conclude that the upgrade has corrupted the dependency tree. How can I recover? I searched several posts but none seemed to address my problem. Martin -- Please make sure that the hardware-summary log file, and any other installation logs that you think would be useful are attached to this report. Please compress large files using gzip. Once you have filled out this report, mail it to sub...@bugs.debian.org. ============================================== Installer lsb-release: ============================================== ============================================== Installer hardware-summary: ============================================== -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
