Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/13/2010 1:51 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-05-12 23:24 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: I've learned today that when there are circular conflicts while upgrading, e.g. libcairo2 has to be upgraded to install xulrunner-1.9.1, but upgrading libcairo2 breaks xulrunner-1.9, it helps to use the dpk

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-12 23:24 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: >> On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: > >>> I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet >>> dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade >>> failed because libc-bin was not installed. >

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/12/2010 4:24 PM, Chris Austin wrote: I've learned today that when there are circular conflicts while upgrading, e.g. libcairo2 has to be upgraded to install xulrunner-1.9.1, but upgrading libcairo2 breaks xulrunner-1.9, it helps to use the dpkg --auto-deconfigure option before the -i action

Re: Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-12 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, > On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: >> I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet >> dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade >> failed because libc-bin was not installed. > How could this happen, given that libc6 depends

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken - SOLVED

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, Looking on http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libc-bin and clicking on the list of files for i386, shows that ldconfig should be in /sbin/. I had been using KPackage, and found that the downloaded .deb's were in the .kpackage subdirectory of my home directory. I created a temporary directory

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. Now dpkg is broken. I tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another thread on this l

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:05:04 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > How can this be fixed? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying > > to upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? > > > > Best regards, > > Chris Austin. > > What should really be the "big warning" is mix

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-11 22:11 +0200, Chris Austin wrote: > I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet > dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade > failed because libc-bin was not installed. How could this happen, given that libc6 depends on libc-bin

Re: libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> > > How can this be fixed? And shouldn't there be a big warning that trying to > upgrade libc6 can break dpkg, on the Debian website page for libc6? > > Best regards, > Chris Austin. > > > What should really be the "big warning" is mixing releases... I don't see this as possible however. How is

libc6 upgrade lenny to squeeze failed, now dpkg is broken

2010-05-11 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I was required to upgrade libc6 from lenny to squeeze in order to meet dependencies to install a package from unstable, but the libc6 upgrade failed because libc-bin was not installed. Now dpkg is broken. I tried a manual reinstall of the lenny libc6, as suggested in another thread on thi