[SGVLUG] apt-get troubles

Tue May 29 20:06:43 PDT 2012

Yeah, it's a mess. I should have wrote down what it told me to do, but
what it said was to install a new kernel, so that seemed a bit extreme
for a ca-certificates package.

It's time to upgrade anyways. Jaunty is from 2008, and the apt sources
haven't been able to update for some time now.

I'll have to look into keeping all user data on a separate partition, to
make moving a bit more simple.

On 05/29/2012 08:00 PM, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
> 
> Hi Braydon,
> Sounds like a mess.  If you temporarily set 12.04 package sources in your
> 9.04 apt configuration you're probably screwed (I wasn't clear on whether
> that was the case from your first e-mail).
> 
> But I am no apt-get guru.
> 
> My philosophy is to keep /home and all user data on a separate partition
> and reinstall root from scratch any time without a worry.  And take copious
> notes on every installation, and don't forget to add /etc to your nightly
> off-site backups.
> 
> -braddock
> 
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:09:49 -0700, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:
>> My goal right now is to fix the packages, so if I restart everything is
>> okay. Upgrading I can take care of later, and backing up everything now.
>>
>> I've updated my apt sources to use:
>> deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
>> deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty main restricted
>>
>> So that apt-get update will retrieve all the packages, and now when I
>> run "apt-get -f install", it wants to remove everything, so libc6 likely
>> is the problem? And should manually dpkg install it again? Here is the
>> output:
>>
>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
>> required:
>>   libgtk2.0-common gcc-4.3-base libx11-data libklibc mysql-common
>> klibc-utils linux-libc-dev autotools-dev libgsf-1-common xdg-utils
>> libthai-data x11-common libconfig-inifiles-perl dbconfig-common
>>   busybox-initramfs
>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>   gcc-4.3-base
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   adduser apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-prefork-dev apache2-utils
>> apache2.2-common apt apt-utils aptitude autoconf automake1.4 awstats
>> base-files bash bash-completion binutils bsdmainutils bzip2
>>   checkinstall comerr-dev courier-authdaemon courier-authlib
>> courier-authlib-userdb courier-base courier-imap cpio cron curl
>> curlftpfs db4.6-util defoma dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dpkg-dev dspam
> emacs
>>   emacs22-bin-common emacs22-common emacs22-gtk emacsen-common expect
>> ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora file fontconfig fontconfig-config fuse-utils gamin
>> gcc gcc-4.2 git git-core gnupg gpgv groff-base gsfonts htop icecast2
>>   ifupdown imagemagick initramfs-tools initscripts iproute iputils-ping
>> klogd less liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libapache2-mod-auth-plain
>> libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-php5 libapr1 libapr1-dev libaprutil1
>>   libaprutil1-dev libapt-pkg-perl libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libatm1
>> libavcodec-unstripped-52 libavcodec1d libavdevice52 libavfilter0
>> libavformat1d libavformat52 libavutil-unstripped-49 libavutil1d
>>   libberkeleydb-perl libbz2-1.0 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6-dev
>> libcairo2 libcap1 libcroco3 libcupsys2 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
>> libcwidget3 libdatrie0 libdb4.6-dev libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
>> libdbus-1-3
>>   libdc1394-13 libdc1394-22 libdevel-symdump-perl libdevmapper1.02.1
>> libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre15
>> libdspam7 libdspam7-drv-mysql libedit2 liberror-perl libexpat1
>>   libexpat1-dev libfaac-dev libfaac0 libfaad-dev libfaad0 libfontconfig1
>> libfreetype6 libfuse2 libgamin0 libgcrypt11 libgd2-xpm libgdbm3 libgif4
>> libglib2.0-0 libgnutls13 libgomp1 libgpg-error0 libgpmg1
>>   libgraphviz4 libgsf-1-114 libgsm1 libgtk2.0-0 libhtml-parser-perl
>> libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libice6 libidn11
>> libio-multiplex-perl libjasper1 libjpeg62 libkadm55 libkeyutils1
>> libkrb5-dev libkrb53
>>   liblcms1 libldap-2.4-2 libldap2-dev liblockfile1 libltdl3 liblzo2-2
>> libmagic1 libmagick10 libmp3lame0 libmysqlclient15off libncursesw5
>> libneon27 libnet-cidr-perl libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
>>   libnet-ip-perl libnet-server-perl libnewt0.52 libogg0 liboil0.3
>> libopencdk10 libopenexr2ldbl libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common
>> libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0 libperl5.8 libpixman-1-0 libplrpc-perl
>> libpng12-0 libpopt0
>>   libpostproc51 libpq-dev libpq5 libraw1394-8 libreadline5 librsvg2-2
>> librsvg2-bin libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libschroedinger-1.0-0
>> libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsigc++-2.0-0c2a libsm6 libspeex1
>>   libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev libssl0.9.8 libsvn1 libswscale0
>> libswscale1d libsysfs2 libt1-5 libtasn1-3 libthai0 libtheora0 libtiff4
>> libtimedate-perl libtool libts-0.0-0 liburi-perl libusb-0.1-4
>>   libvolume-id0 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libwmf0.2-7 libwrap0
>> libwww-perl libx11-6 libx264-57 libx264-65 libx264-dev libxau6
>> libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxdmcp6
>> libxext6
>>   libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxml2 libxmu6 libxpm4
>> libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxslt1.1 libxt6 libxvidcore4 libxvidcore4-dev
>> links locales localization-config logrotate m4 mailx make man-db mawk
>>   module-init-tools mtr-tiny mutt mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 nano
>> net-tools openssh-client openssh-server openssl patch perl perl-modules
>> php-mode php-pear php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd
>>   php5-mysql postfix postfix-pcre postgrey procmail procps psmisc python
>> python2.5 rsync sasl2-bin shtool ssl-cert startup-tasks subversion sudo
>> sysklogd system-services tcl8.4 tcpd telnet ttf-dejavu
>>   ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra ubuntu-keyring udev unzip upstart
>> upstart-compat-sysv upstart-logd uuid-dev uuid-runtime vim-common
>> vim-tiny wget whiptail xclip yasm youtube-dl zip zlib1g-dev
>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>   gcc-4.3-base
>> WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
>> This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
>>   apt base-files bash libc-bin
>> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 316 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
>> 1 not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 107kB of archives.
>> After this operation, 517MB disk space will be freed.
>> You are about to do something potentially harmful.
>> To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
>>  ?]
>>
>>
>> On 05/29/2012 02:34 PM, Braddock Gaskill wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 29 May 2012 14:13:05 -0700, Braydon <ronin at braydon.com> wrote:
>>>> So I have a VPS with Ubuntu jaunty on it, and have recently run:
>>>
>>> Jaunty is Ubuntu 9.04, which is not a Long Term Support (LTS) release
> and
>>> an upgrade to Precise 12.04 LTS would probably fail.
>>>
>>> As far as I understand the only upgrade paths Canonical tests are 10.04
>>> LTS -> 12.04 LTS and 11.10 -> 12.04 LTS, and they actually recommend
> NOT
>>> attempting a 10.04->12.04 until they get the bugs worked out in the
> next
>>> minor point release in June.
>>>
>>> I find in general that I'm much better off doing an installation from
>>> scratch than trying to upgrade.
>>>
>>> -braddock
>>>
>>>>
>>>> $ apt-get install ca-certificates
>>>>
>>>> And with it came a few other packages, and then failed midway through,
>>>> stating, that I needed to add "lenny" to my sources  (strange because
>>>> this isn't Debian) and then run a command that I've last in my screen
>>>> now, to update the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> So now when I run:
>>>>
>>>> $apt-get -f install
>>>>
>>>> I get this message:
>>>>
>>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>   libc-bin: Breaks: libc6 (< 2.10) but 2.9-4ubuntu6.3 is installed
>>>>   libc-dev-bin: Depends: libc6 (> 2.15) but 2.9-4ubuntu6.3 is
> installed
>>>> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
>>>> caused by held packages.
>>>> E: Unable to correct dependencies
>>>>
>>>> And I've updated my sources to "precise" (for the latest 12.4
> release),
>>>> and was attempting to update the whole machine.
>>>>
>>>> What to do?
>>>>
>>>> -Braydon
>>>
>>>
>>>
> 
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> 

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Braydon Fuller
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