On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 07:12:48PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Jan 2, 2015 6:33 PM, "Sam Varghese" <s...@gnubies.com> wrote: > > > > I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the > > past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: > > > [oodles of errors] > > > Processing was halted because there were too many errors. > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > root@tuatara:/home/poormigrant# > > > > I am using a Lenovo i7 laptop: > > root@tuatara:/home/poormigrant# uname -a > > Linux tuatara 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-2 (2014-11-06) x86_64 > > GNU/Linux > > > > Any help on resolving this would be gratefully received. I am not > > subscribed to > > the list so I would appreciate being copied in. > > I have always found aptitude extraordinarily good at resolving such problems. > It will upgrade what it can, stop, and when asked to upgrade again, will often > complete the process. Under the hood, it may be doing exactly what Bob Proulx > just suggested in his reply.
Thanks very much for taking the trouble to reply. I tried out aptitude and just as you and one other person on the list said, it solved the issue and upgraded everything. But why is this? Doesn't apt-get do the same thing as aptitude? Bob Proulx, I tried out aptitude first so the output from those commands you cited would presumably be of no use now as all is fine. Thanks for your suggestions anyway. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150103232005.GA2111@imap://gnubies.gnubies.com
