I'm concerned that I may have made my system unstable by mixing stable with frozen packages. Please see below.
I've begun to upgrade my system in order to use the ax25-utils with 2.0.36. I've been running Debian 2.0 but recently decided to add some Frozen packages from the HAM RADIO packages. I've installed the Frozen ax25-utils, and some of the other ham packages. I successfully compiled 2.0.36. WHen I run apt-get install xconverse, for example I get errors about not being able to remove a lockfile in update-menus. (see below). I also have an ldconfig warning about a missing library. Afterwards, it claims to have installed ok. These are alarming to me since I am concerned about having made my system unstable. Will fully upgrading to Frozen via apt-get upgrade fix these problems? Zep:/home/ed# apt-get install xconvers Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following extra packages will be installed: lesstifg The following NEW packages will be installed: xconvers 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 307 not upgraded. Need to get 577k of archives. After unpacking 186k will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main xconvers [14.1k] Get http://http.us.debian.org frozen/main lesstifg [563k] Fetched 577k in 3m13s (2988b/s) (Reading database ... 44059 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lesstifg 1:0.83-7 (using lesstifg_0.86.9-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement lesstifg ... Selecting previously deselected package xconvers. Unpacking xconvers (from xconvers_0.4-5.deb) ... Setting up lesstifg (0.86.9-2) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libglib.so (No such file or directory), s ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgdk.so (No such file or directory), sk ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libgtk.so (No such file or directory), sk Setting up xconvers (0.4-5) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Zep:/home/ed# mv: /var/lib/pdmenu//pdmenurc_auto.new: No such file or directory Update-menus: Cannot remove lockfile /var/run/update-menus.pid Zep:/home/ed# Note that it claims to have installed correctly: Zep:/home/ed# dpkg -s xconvers Package: xconvers Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: hamradio Installed-Size: 47 Maintainer: Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.4-5 Depends: lesstifg (>= 1:0.85.2), libc6 (>= 2.0.7u), xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) Thanx, Ed NL7FU