A. F. Cano wrote: > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all. > Vim, for instance is unusable. > > I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies, > broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but aptitude > starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up all the available RAM, > then all the available swap and the system slows down (thrashing) and then > freezes.
my recommendation would be to start over and do a fresh install. if there is any data you need to back up and haven't done that yet i'd do that first. this will likely go a lot faster than trying to figure out what's broken if you've done something really strange and don't have the background to figure it out. songbird