Excellent. Thanks Sven. Should I then install insserv by hand before doing the dist-upgrade then?
--b On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2011-04-27 22:47 +0200, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I just want to make sure this isn't a show stopper before I pull the > > trigger. I have mostly upgraded my daughter's netbook from lenny to > squeeze. > > I took the conservative route, cleaning up packages, changing > sources.list, > > doing an update and upgrade, upgrading the kernel and udev and rebooting. > > All I have left is the dist-upgrade... > > > > However, an apt-get -s dist-upgrade showed me repeated > > > > E: Conf Broken insserv > > > > messages. Is this a show-stopper or just a nuisance error message? > > The latter. When you actually do the dist-upgrade, it will work (or at > least not hit this particular problem). The insserv package in squeeze > breaks the lenny sysv-rc package, while the squeeze sysv-rc package > depends on the new insserv -- a kind of dependency loop that requires > temporarily auto-deconfiguring sysv-rc. > > Sven > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjt3h0hb....@turtle.gmx.de > >
