Yeseterday I made the mistake of copying over /etc/apt/sources.list from a
working machine to
another working machine. But I forgot to copu /etc/apt/preferences :-( The I
turned dselect
loose. Big mistake.
Lot' s of stuff is broken gnome, gdm, and who knows what else.
A friendly listmsmber sugested I down grade to woody on that machien. Sonds
like a gret idae,
but...
Here is the sugested way of doing this.
1. Remove unstanle lines fro /etc/apt/sources.list. (done).
2. Add the following as the total contents of /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 1001
(done).
3. run apt-get update. (done)
4. run apt-get dist-unpgrade (Here is where the fun begins :-(
Script started on Sun Apr 14 10:56:41 2002
smokey:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package
Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency
Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED
aalib1 abiword-common abiword-doc abiword-gnome abiword-gtk abiword-plugins
amp apache
apache-common apt-howto-en aptitude ash aspell aspell-doc aspell-en
atlas2-3dnow bash bash-doc
bsdgames calc cddb cdrecord-dev cpio cpp-3.0 crafty cvs ddd ddd-doc debconf
debconf-utils
debhelper defoma discover doc-linux-text eboard enscript fakeroot fortune-mod
fortunes
fortunes-bofh-excuses fortunes-mario fortunes-min fortunes-off gcc-3.0
gcc-3.0-base gdb gettext
gettext-base gettext-el gimp1.2 gimp1.2-perl glade-common glade-doc
gnome-control-center
gnome-core gnome-help-data gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal
gnumeric-doc gpm grip
gtkrecover imagemagick initrd-tools kaffe kfract kiconedit kpaint kruler
ksnapshot kview
lbxproxy less lg-base lha libart-dev libasound2 libaspell10 libcapplet0
libcapplet1 libdiscover1
libdps1 libeel-data libeel0 libgcc1 libgd2 libgimp1.2 libgnomeprint-bin
libgnomeprint-data
libgnomeprint15 libgnorba-dev libgpmg1 libgtkxmhtml-dev libgtkxmhtml1
libldap2 libmagick++5
libmagick5 libmd5-perl libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5
libncursesw5-dbg
libncursesw5-dev libnspr4 libnss3 libpanel-applet0 librpm4 libsane
libscrollkeeper0 libsensors1
libsigc++0 libstdc++3 libstorable-perl libsword1 libterm-readkey-perl libxaw6
libxaw7 libxml2
libzvt2 mailx manpages manpages-dev mindi mkisofs modconf mpg123 mutt
mutt-utf8 nano
ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term nethack nethack-common nethack-x11
nighthawk ntop patch
pdl perlmagick postgresql-doc powertweak-extra powertweak-gtk powertweakd
procps proxymngr
psfontmgr python python2.1 python2.2 r-base realpath reportbug rpm screen
scrollkeeper sox
stl-manual systune telnet telnetd tipa twm weblint webmin-apache xaw3dg
xbase-clients xlibmesa3
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 169 downgraded, 0 to remove and 1 not
upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/109MB of archives. After unpacking 9033kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package gnome-gv.
(Reading database ... 101572 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gnome-gv 1.1.93-3 (using .../gnome-gv_1.1.93-3_i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement gnome-gv ...
scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory
Registering /usr/share/omf/ggv/ggv-it.omf.dpkg-tmp
scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol:
pthread_once
dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory
Registering /usr/share/omf/ggv/ggv-it.omf.dpkg-tmp
scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol:
pthread_once
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-gv_1.1.93-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127
scrollkeeper-update: /usr/local/share/omf: No such file or directory
Registering /usr/share/omf/ggv/ggv-C.omf
scrollkeeper-update: relocation error: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: undefined symbol:
pthread_once
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
dpkg - warning: downgrading bash from 2.05a-11 to 2.05a-9.
Preparing to replace bash 2.05a-11 (using .../archives/bash_2.05a-9_i386.deb)
...
Unpacking replacement bash ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-gv_1.1.93-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
smokey:/etc/apt#
Script done on Sun Apr 14 10:57:01 2002
So it appears the gnom-gv is stuck in my machines craw, and it can't breathe!
How can I straighten out this mess?
I tried:
dpkg -P --force-remove-reinstreq scrollkeeper
but it did not help :-(
Could some kind soul help me get my nicely working machine back?
BTW I have a nice amanda backup from the night before I did this stupid thing.
Is that any
help? Can I for instance resore teh"installed package" inof, and force the
machine to set
itself abck to that state somehow?
I'v got _a lot_ of customization in this machien & I really don't want to have
to reisntall
from scracth because I made one stupid mistake :-(
Thanks for any help.
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neither liberty nor safety."
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