On Tue, 15 May 2007 10:41:55 +0200 Nick de Graeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I inherited from my long gone predecessor the administration of an old > server running Sarge. It is used for Bugzilla and Mantis and partly as > webserver. > I'm not very familiar with Debian, I'm a Mandriva man myself, but I'm > the only one in the company left that has Linux experience. To keep > the system up-to-date I do a "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade -y" > each time I get a Security Advisory email . > I think it was last week there were a whole bunch of packages that > where held back. After some surfing I concluded that I had to do a > "aptitude dist-upgrade" and indeed almost all packages could now be > installed. Only a few weren't: > > moria:~# aptitude upgrade > [...] > The following packages have been kept back: > file libkrb53 libmagic1 > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not > upgraded. > [..] > > However, since yesterday we're experiencing problems with PHP. It > seems that with the previous updates the PHP module of Apache was > uninstalled for some reason. The problem is I can't get it to install > again: > > moria:~# aptitude install libapache-mod-php4 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed > E: Unable to resolve some dependencies! > Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libapache-mod-php4: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but > 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 is installed. > Depends: libdb4.4 which is a virtual package. > Depends: libkrb53 (>= 1.4.2) but 1.3.6-2sarge4 > is installed and it is kept back. > Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1) which is a > virtual package. > Depends: apache-common (>= 1.3.34) but > 1.3.33-6sarge3 is installed. > > That got me wondering... > > moria:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib > deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib > > Yep, there's my problem (I guess): I've mixed Sarge with stable and > stable is now Etch. > > > So finally my questions: > > How can I salvage my system? > Will replacing stable with sarge in the sources.list and do a > "aptitude update" and "aptitude upgrade" (or "aptitude dist-upgrade") > solve my problems? That would be a downgrade; it's not, IIUC, officially supported and you probably shouldn't do it unless you consider yourself an expert. > Or should I upgrade the entire system to Etch? Probably a good idea, since Etch is now stable; you'll get security updates, and you'll have newer software. Of course, that could be a problem for you; you may have to reconfigure things, etc. > Nick. Just my $.02, Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
