-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered > several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as > separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if > they should be reported as bugs. > > During the installation, dselect stopped with the following > message: > > "dpkg: too many errors, stopping", followed by a list of packages that > had installation errors. > > The errors dselect complained about were primarily dependency > problems related to the package ordering. These are routine in > dselect, and I have never before seen dselect stop because of them. Since rex and hamm are so "different", and since dpkg doesn't order the packages right yet, I would suggest to "help" dpkg a little bit. I would try upgrading by following the libc6 miniHOWTO. > After (I)nstall was re-started, it displayed the usual message > "Running dpkg -iGROEB", but it acted as if the -E option was not in > effect in many cases. There were 218 instances similar to the > following: > > "Preparing to replace smail 3.2.0.92-1 (using > .../mail/smail_3.2.0.92-1.deb) .. > Unpacking replacement smail ..." > > and 81 instances similar to the following: > > "Version 5.004.04-3 of perl already installed, skipping." > > Although the packages were unpacked a second time in 218 > instances, none of the questions regarding keeping or replacing > confiles were repeated this time. I think this is normal. Probably the packages were half-installed and it tried a second time. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNJ/oGCqK7IlOjMLFAQHpAQP/ZEkJ4EtDi/gB45ytH6qKbkhMpniEFRVt OfUWhwhWoRbxH6fRc4Al3Mi9tXqfWVracXTYwz/JyzEnOYZf2XQOWWukaBREAoJX dCpnCcSYskrSCtvjnCB6s12r213EJNhW3iq+0IIaq3BO35EKJW3pxTWTlRU3BeuS JbSS0o8KlNg= =aIjp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
