Re: Bug#501855: upgrade-reports: initscripts Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hm, that looks fairly normal. Probably it would work if you upgrade
> initscripts before the full-upgrade. However, it does not explain why
> apt wanted to temporarily remove initscripts in the first place. This
> looks like a bug in apt, reassigning.
# aptitude install initscripts
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
initscripts
The following packages will be upgraded:
libselinux1 libsepol1 sysvinit-utils
4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 230 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/347kB of archives. After unpacking 102kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
initscripts: Conflicts: insserv (< 1.09.0-12) but 1.08.0-11 is
installed and it is kept back.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Upgrade the following packages:
insserv [1.08.0-11 (now) -> 1.12.0-4 (testing)]
Score is 120
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
The following packages will be upgraded:
initscripts insserv libselinux1 libsepol1 sysvinit-utils
5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 229 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/413kB of archives. After unpacking 426kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the
essential package initscripts due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop.
This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the
APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove initscripts
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
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