Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-02-02 Thread Flo
Meanwhile I wrote a bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513157 And if it is only to get an explanation for this behavior ;-) Thank you. Flo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-29 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Flo wrote: >> there may again appear files in this directory. I would expect to see >> there >> files only in the case the "update" command is interrupted. But may be >> something >> is wrong with apt-get. Time to file a bug report? > > I definitely did this sometimes. Not recently though. I will

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-28 Thread Flo
there may again appear files in this directory. I would expect to see there files only in the case the "update" command is interrupted. But may be something is wrong with apt-get. Time to file a bug report? I definitely did this sometimes. Not recently though. I will observe the behaviour of ap

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-26 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Flo wrote: >> >> Also take a look into directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. There may >> be left >> some files. I had to remove them by hand. > > I found there more than 400 files, mainly diff files, but some others as > well. > > Is it better to remove them??? > > Flo. > This directory belon

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-25 Thread Flo
Also take a look into directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial. There may be left some files. I had to remove them by hand. I found there more than 400 files, mainly diff files, but some others as well. Is it better to remove them??? Flo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Flo wrote: >> >> I don't know the timing, but I wonder if it could be as simple as >> mirror skew. >> > > Probably you are right. I did the right thing at the wrong time. And > spent hours on searching a problem which didn't exist. > > Nevertheless, thank you for your help. > > Flo. > > Als

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-23 Thread Flo Debian
> >No, nothing special. I just have different sources in the menu.lst. > > Your GRUB configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst) is an odd place to store apt > sources. Don't you think the normal place (/etc/apt/sources.list) would > be better? :) > Sorry, I was too stupid. I just had to edit menu.ls

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 January 2009, Flo wrote about 'Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem': >No, nothing special. I just have different sources in the menu.lst. Your GRUB configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst) is an odd place to store apt sources. Don't you think the normal place (/et

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
I don't know the timing, but I wonder if it could be as simple as mirror skew. Probably you are right. I did the right thing at the wrong time. And spent hours on searching a problem which didn't exist. Nevertheless, thank you for your help. Flo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
According to what you posted earlier today, apt doesn't know about 2007.dfsg.2-1 yet. Assuming you are on Lenny/Sid you might try "aptitude update" to resolve that. Or better: It doesn't know about 2007.dfsg.2-1 anymore. Because it did know and downloaded the version. aptitude update: T

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:04:28PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Thursday 2009 January 22 15:24:57 Flo wrote: > >The second update must have confused it. How could it happen and, more > >important, how can I fix this? > > Yeah, I'm not sure how that confused it, but it c

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2009 January 22 15:24:57 Flo wrote: >You are right! 2007.dfsg.2-1 is the uptodate version. 2007.dfsg.1-1 is >the old version which is installed and should be upgraded. According to what you posted earlier today, apt doesn't know about 2007.dfsg.2-1 yet. Assuming you are on Lenny/Sid

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
It looks like being installed but it isn't. How do you know that 2007.dfsg.1-1 isn't what is actually installed? All these seem to agree that it is what is installed. Could you do some sort of sha1sum test to verify your version of the files shipped in this package actually differ from the

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 2009 January 22 13:38:27 Flo wrote: ># aptitude upgrade >No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > ># dpkg -s texlive-doc-base >Status: install ok installed >Version: 2007.dfsg.1-1 > ># aptitude show texlive-doc-base >State: installed >Version: 2007.dfsg.1-1 > ># apt-cache

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18:22AM +0100, Flo was heard to say: Hi, I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. I am running debian testing and I did the following: aptitude update aptitude -d upgrade Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
Thanks for your email. I am running debian testing and I did the following: aptitude update aptitude -d upgrade Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: aptitude update aptitude upgrade In the meantime I got another package to

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:18:22AM +0100, Flo was heard to say: > Hi, > > I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. > > I am running debian testing and I did the following: > > aptitude update > aptitude -d upgrade > > Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude

Re: Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Juha Tuuna
Flo wrote: > Hi, > > I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. > > I am running debian testing and I did the following: > > aptitude update > aptitude -d upgrade > > Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude > upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: > > aptitu

Serious aptitude upgrade problem

2009-01-22 Thread Flo
Hi, I think I am running into a serious upgrade problem. I am running debian testing and I did the following: aptitude update aptitude -d upgrade Now I have downloaded the packages but instead of saying 'aptitude upgrade' to finish the upgrade I did: aptitude update aptitude upgrade In the m