[ATrpms-users] Re: FC2 to FC3 dist-upgrade

[cythrault at gmail.com]

On Apr 12, 2005 5:58 AM, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:46:55AM -0400, cythrault at gmail.com wrote:
> > Ok, maybe I was bored, but I decided that it was time to upgrade my FC2 box.
> >
> > I copied sources.list from another FC3 box just recently installed.
> >
> > Then I ran apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade:
> >
> > [snip]
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   kudzu system-config-mouse system-config-network-tui
> > [snip]
> > The following packages have been kept back
> >   gnome-vfs2 kernel-utils
> >
> > I then installed or upgraded the above packages. I had to install the
> > kernel also.
> >
> > Now everyting works fine. But I'm getting this when I run a dist-upgrade:
> >
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > Calculating Upgrade... Failed
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   fedora-release: Depends: fedora-package-config
> >   initscripts: Depends: dev
> >                Depends: kernel (>= 2.6)
> >   mkinitrd: PreDepends: dev
> >             Depends: lvm2 but it is not going to be installed
> > E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be
> > caused by held packages.
> >
> > So I ran "apt-get install fedora-release fedora-package-config
> > initscripts mkinitrd lvm2":
> >
> > fedora-release is already the newest version.
> > fedora-package-config is already the newest version.
> > initscripts is already the newest version.
> > mkinitrd is already the newest version.
> > lvm2 is already the newest version.
> 
> If the packages are there, but apt cannot see them, perhaps your
> rpm database needs a rebuild?
> 
> Try
> 
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__*
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 rpm --rebuilddb
> 
> > I did not try to install "dev" since it's been replaced by udev in FC3...
> >
> > Any hints?
> >
> > Thanks!

Oh, I'm sorry. I should have specified that I already tried that. ;)

A note for Myth users out there: I'm using the CVS and I had to
recompile everything otherwise, during plugging inits I'd get:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what():  St9bad_alloc

-- 
cyth