evil dpkg: was :Re: [Tfug] Still trying to get rid of some stuff

[Paul Scott]

Ammon Lauritzen wrote:

>Paul Scott wrote:
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>>What happened?  I have been using the most current version of dpkg (I
>>update frequently) for a long time without anything I can blame on
>>dpkg having happened.  Do you use a front end like aptitude or synaptic?
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>What happened was really quite simple. I inserted a Debian disc, boot,
>configure, select packages, reboot, wait. Apt does its thing quite
>happily, dpkg installs everything - until it comes time to upgrade
>itself. I tried getting the deb file from numerous locations, and they
>were all identical. Dpkg-deb was able to get info out of the package
>just fine, but it like to hosed the machine something fierce for a very
>long time.
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Interesting!  I've upgraded packages while their programs were running 
hundreds of times.  The only time I get a temporary glitch is when I 
upgrade kdm from an xterm since the install wants to restart kdm.

>I am using synaptic now that the machine is up - but this issue was
>actually preventing me from getting X installed and running, I had to
>roll back to stable in order to get things going. Took me about an hour
>before I realized that this was an option. I'm back up to testing... and
>am afraid to try again for a few days :P
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I just installed stable on an old ThinkPad.  I think I added unstable to 
my sources.list before installing X.  The system is now mostly 
"unstable" with no glitches.

Well at least you figured it out and got it working,

Paul

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