hey gang, one of my boxes as just showed sudden, unexplained breakage in aptitude. This is xen domU firewall running almost-up-to-date etch. For a few days, the only update showing was
The following packages will be upgraded:
libkrb53
so I've been back-burnering that one upgrade. suddenly today, I show:
The following packages are BROKEN:
cron debconf debianutils dhcp3-client dpkg exim4 gnupg iptables
libc6 libgcc1 libgnutls13 libpam-modules libpam0g
libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libstdc++6 logrotate netbase openssh-client
openssh-server passwd pciutils sysklogd
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
binutils dbus iproute libatm1 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libpcap0.8
libx11-6 x11-common
and further, aptitude says:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libpam0g: Depends: libpam-runtime but it is not installable
[... snip a bunch of these...]
exim4: Depends: exim4-base (>= 4.63) but it is not installable
Depends: exim4-daemon-light but it is not installable or
exim4-daemon-heavy but it is not installable or
exim4-daemon-custom which is a virtual package.
[... snip a bunch more, exim left cause its easy to understand for me ...]
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Install the following packages:
coreutils [5.97-5.3 (stable, now)]
debconf-english [1.5.11 (stable)]
dhcp3-common [3.0.4-13 (stable, now)]
exim4-base [4.63-17 (stable)]
exim4-config [4.63-17 (stable)]
exim4-daemon-light [4.63-17 (stable)]
[... snip the rest ...]
these 3 exim packages are installed already...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l exim\* | awk '/^ii/ {print $1, $2, $3}'
ii exim4 4.63-17
ii exim4-base 4.63-17
ii exim4-config 4.63-17
ii exim4-daemon-light 4.63-17
and all the others are currently installed, whether they say (stable,
now) or just (stable).
wtf is this? I have made some changes to my apt system, but that was
days ago (installing and configuring approx) and this problem only
showed up yesterday
thoughts? what would cause this to suddenly appear? anyone else seeing
something similar?
and, btw, none of my other systems show this breakage.
could it be just a corrupted apt cache perhaps?
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