Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.10-1+b2 Severity: normal
I'm migrating from one machine to another with a different CPU. In order to do this, I've done a complete copy of the /var, /usr, /lib, etc. directories from one machine to the next. To update from the amd k7 architecture to the amd64 architecture, I've issued these two commands: aptitude clean aptitude -o APT::Architecture=amd64 -f install This works as expected (I admit that I stumbled onto this particular usage of this command) and attempts to reinstall packages with amd64 architecture. After downloading massive numbers of packages, the system finally stops with the following error message: E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libc6 A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done According to the libc6 maintainers, this is a aptitude error message, not a package-related message. I am reluctant to test if apt-get alone will properly update, since I am concerned that apt-get is not as "smart" as aptitude. An attempt to "simply" reinstall aptitude alone: aptitude -o APT::Architecture=amd64 reinstall aptitude resuts in a massive attempt to re-install all libc6-dependent packages, and the choices aptitude offers are unaccepatable. Please let me know if you need any further information or testing. -- Package-specific info: Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.7 0.7.10 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcwidget1 0.5.6.1-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080112-1 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.6+20080105-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080112-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.10-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
