On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 at 13:33, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So you have a multiarch (amd64 and i386) system, with amd64 repositories > for Skype and Docker. > > Why do you need i386? I'm guessing you might have some locally installed > packages as well. Please show also the output of > > aptitude search '~o' > aptitude search '~b'
I would not bot able to answer it, maybe the scanner driver. I do use skype and docker. Anyway, here the output: sudo aptitude search '~o' Warning: Invalid locale (please review locale settings, this might lead to problems later): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid i libapt-inst2.0 - deb package format runtime library i libapt-pkg5.0 - package management runtime library i libdns-export1104 - Exported DNS Shared Library i libip4tc0 - netfilter libip4tc library i libip6tc0 - netfilter libip6tc library i libisc-export1100 - Exported ISC Shared Library i libjson-c3 - JSON manipulation library - shared library i libprocps7 - library for accessing process information from /proc i libreadline7 - GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries i A linux-image-5.2.0-3-amd64 - Linux 5.2 for 64-bit PCs (signed) i net.downloadhelper.coapp - Video DownloadHelper companion app i perl-modules-5.28 - Core Perl modules i scangearmp-common - ScanGear MP for Linux. i scangearmp-mg2500series - ScanGear MP for Linux. sudo aptitude search '~b' Warning: Invalid locale (please review locale settings, this might lead to problems later): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid downloadhelper is part of a firefox extension. "locale" is one of the packages that is currently broken (update: could reinstall and it is working now) > > > Pinned packages: > > libpython3.8-minimal -> 3.8.2-1 with priority -30000 > > libcrypt1 -> 1:4.4.15-1 with priority -30000 > > libcrypt1:i386 -> 1:4.4.15-1 with priority -30000 > > powertop -> 2.10-1+b1 with priority 30000 > > openssh-server -> 1:8.1p1-1 with priority 30000 > > grub-efi-amd64 -> 2.04-3 with priority 30000 > > isc-dhcp-client -> 4.4.1-2 with priority 30000 > > Why did you add these pins? When I did the upgrade (the big one after 4 months) apt-listbugs warned about a number of bugs and I felt safer to pin those packages. > > > I tried to unpin these packages: > > > > sudo apt-mark unhold libcrypt1 > > Pins are not holds... Thank you, this was not obvious to me. I now deleted the pins from /etc/apt/preferences.d/apt-listbugs and rerun update+upgrade and that seems to have fixed my problems. \o/ > > Your system is a... complex mixture that is very easy to break. You refer to my apt policy I assume and/or my apt sources list? I would be happy to simplify it. In my sources.list I now only have unstable: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib For my apt preferences I had: Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 To be honest back in the day when I did that, I struggled to really understand it. My intention was to have the system take packages from unstable and if a package is not available there then from testing. Does it even do that? Thank you a lot for your help! Marty