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I try to upgrade Etch to Lenny and get the following problem:
Code:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.7-1
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
# apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libft-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpp-4.3 e2fsprogs findutils fontconfig-config grep gzip hostname initscripts libcwidget3 libdb4.6 libdrm2 libept0
libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgl1-mesa-glx libkeyutils1 libmpfr1ldbl libss2 libuuid1 libxapian15 libxaw7 libxcb-xlib0
libxcb1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxtrap6 libxv1
libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm1 lzma mount ncurses-base procps sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar util-linux
x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils x11-xserver-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
adduser apt aptitude base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils coreutils cpp cpp-4.1 cron debconf debconf-i18n debconf-utils
debianutils defoma diff dpkg e2fslibs file gawk gcc-4.1-base gnupg gpgv gsfonts gsfonts-x11 ifupdown iputils-ping
java-common libacl1 libasound2 libattr1 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libc6 libcomerr2 libdb4.2 libedit2 libfontenc1 libfreetype6
libfribidi0 libfs6 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgmp3c2 libgpg-error0 libice6 libidn11 libkrb53 liblocale-gettext-perl
liblockfile1 libltdl3 libmagic1 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libpam-modules libpam-runtime libpam0g libpcre3
libpopt0 libreadline5 libsasl2-2 libselinux1 libsepol1 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libslang2 libsm6 libssl0.9.8 libstdc++6
libtasn1-3 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libusb-0.1-4 libwrap0 libx11-6 libx11-data
libxau6 libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfont1 libxi6 libxp6 libxt6 libxtst6 login logrotate lsb-base makedev mktemp ncurses-bin
net-tools netbase odbcinst1debian1 openbsd-inetd openssh-blacklist openssh-client openssh-server passwd perl perl-base
perl-doc perl-modules readline-common rsnapshot rsync sed ssh sun-java5-bin sun-java5-jre tcpd ucf unixodbc update-inetd
whiptail x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xutils xutils-dev zlib1g
122 upgraded, 50 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/104MB of archives.
After unpacking 47.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 10696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch10+b1 (using .../libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
A non-dpkg owned copy of the libc6-i686 package was found.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove that copy of the C library and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
My /etc/apt/sources.list:
Code:
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
#stable main non-free
deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#security & none-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
# apt-get upgrade apt dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
locales: Depends: glibc-2.7-1
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 121 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4566kB of archives.
After unpacking 369kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 10696 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch10+b1 (using .../libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb) ...
Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Checking init scripts...
A non-dpkg owned copy of the libc6-i686 package was found.
It is not safe to upgrade the C library in this situation;
please remove that copy of the C library and try again.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-18lenny7_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
It suggests moving /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 to /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6.bkup and reinstalling libc6. However, this may break your system completely and require you to boot from CD to restore the file. I presume you have a backup.
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