[SGVLUG] apt-get troubles

[Braddock Gaskill]

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
>> 
>> !DSPAM:4fc540da172373310585754!
>>