severity 188383 critical thanks Marking as critical as without manual fiddling this breaks upgrades.
Upgrading from Woody to testing (May 1st 2003) on a SPARC Ultra 5. I installed Woody, everything was okay and installed. Switched to testing, and tried to first upgrade dpkg: $ apt-get install dpkg Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 [30.3kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libc6-sparc64 2.3.1-16 [3391kB] Get:3 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libc6-dev 2.3.1-16 [2832kB] Get:4 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main libc6 2.3.1-16 [3759kB] Get:5 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main dselect 1.10.9 [90.9kB] Get:6 ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org testing/main dpkg 1.10.9 [1165kB] Fetched 11.3MB in 46s (240kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libdb1-compat. (Reading database ... 18591 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libdb1-compat (from .../libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_sparc.deb) ... Replacing files in old package libc6 ... Preparing to replace libc6-sparc64 2.2.5-11.5 (using .../libc6-sparc64_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-sparc64 ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/lib/64', which is also in package libgcc1 Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.5-11.5 (using .../libc6-dev_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... Preparing to replace libc6 2.2.5-11.5 (using .../libc6_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-sparc64_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Urgh. I tried lots of combinations but eventually: agloval:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -i libgcc1_1%3a3.3-0pre5_sparc.deb libc6_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb libgcc1_1%3a3.3-0pre5_sparc.deb libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_sparc.deb (Reading database ... 18591 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libgcc1 1:3.3-0pre5 (using libgcc1_1%3a3.3-0pre5_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgcc1 ... Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.1-16 (using libc6_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6 ... Preparing to replace libgcc1 1:3.3-0pre5 (using libgcc1_1%3a3.3-0pre5_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgcc1 ... Preparing to replace libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 (using libdb1-compat_2.1.3-7_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libdb1-compat ... More than one copy of package libgcc1 has been unpacked in this run ! Only configuring it once. Setting up libc6 (2.3.1-16) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted...done. [snip rest of postinst script] This managed to get the some in, and then attempting to install dpkg again: agloval:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install dpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: dpkg: PreDepends: dselect but it is not going to be installed libc6-sparc64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.5-11.5) but 2.3.1-16 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). agloval:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get install dpkg dselect libc6-sparc64 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: dselect 2 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 133 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/4647kB of archives. After unpacking 893kB will be freed. Selecting previously deselected package dselect. (Reading database ... 18591 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking dselect (from .../dselect_1.10.9_sparc.deb) ... Replacing files in old package dpkg ... Setting up dselect (1.10.9) ... (Reading database ... 18596 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg 1.9.21 (using .../archives/dpkg_1.10.9_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg ... Setting up dpkg (1.10.9) ... Moving /usr/info/dir to /usr/share/info/dir. Making /usr/info a symlink to /usr/share/info. (Reading database ... 18610 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6-sparc64 2.2.5-11.5 (using .../libc6-sparc64_2.3.1-16_sparc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-sparc64 ... Setting up libc6-dev (2.3.1-16) ... Setting up libc6-sparc64 (2.3.1-16) ... Hooray, got there. Machine is currently happily dist-upgrading. -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
