Upgrading Slink -> Potato
Please be advised that an upgrade from Slink to Potato using
"apt-get dist-upgrade" produces problems:
Preparing to replace ssh 1.2.26-1.2 (using .../ssh_1%3a1.2.1pre24-1_i386.deb) ...
Stopping Secure Shell server: sshd.
Can't locate Data/Dumper.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.004 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.004 /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/i386-linux .) at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfigDb.pm line 218.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 9.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.1pre24-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
You already have a host key in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
You should read the documentation and then configure /etc/ssh/ssh_config
and /etc/ssh/sshd_config to your sites needs and preferences.
Starting Secure Shell server: sshd.
Preparing to replace suidmanager 0.23 (using .../suidmanager_0.43_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement suidmanager ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ssh_1%3a1.2.1pre24-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
tasha:/etc# apt-get dist-upgrade
Data/Dumper.pm is in perl-5.005-base which doesn't get installed for
some reason.
tasha:~/sik# dpkg -l perl-5.005-base
No packages found matching perl-5.005-base.
If you install it, you're going to lose perl.
tasha:~/sik# dpkg -l perl*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===========================-===========================-======================================================================
ii perl 5.004.05-2 Fake package used for a smooth upgrade
ii perl-5.004 5.004.05-4.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
ii perl-5.004-base 5.004.05-4.1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
un perl-5.004-debug <none> (no description available)
ii perl-5.004-doc 5.004.05-4.1 Man pages and pod docs for Perl
un perl-5.004-suid <none> (no description available)
un perl-5.005 <none> (no description available)
pn perl-5.005-base <none> (no description available)
ii perl-base 5.004.05-1.1 Fake package assuring that one of the -base package is installed
un perl-curses <none> (no description available)
pn perl-debug <none> (no description available)
un perl-doc <none> (no description available)
rn perl-suid <none> (no description available)
pn perl-tk <none> (no description available)
un perl5 <none> (no description available)
un perl5-base <none> (no description available)
pn perlmagick <none> (no description available)
pn perlmenu <none> (no description available)
pn perlmoo <none> (no description available)
pn perlsgml <none> (no description available)
This is the entire result, after some --configure -any and apt-get dist-upgrade
cycles:
dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cfingerd:
cfingerd depends on netbase (>= 2.00); however:
Package netbase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cfingerd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of talkd:
talkd depends on netbase; however:
Package netbase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing talkd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lynx:
lynx depends on debconf; however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing lynx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of sendfile:
sendfile depends on netbase (>= 2.00); however:
Package netbase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing sendfile (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-server:
nfs-server depends on netbase; however:
Package netbase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing nfs-server (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mutt:
mutt depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
Package smail which provides mail-transport-agent is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mutt (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of telnetd:
telnetd depends on netbase; however:
Package netbase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing telnetd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of midentd:
midentd depends on netbase; however:
Package netbase is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing midentd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
smail
netbase
cfingerd
talkd
lynx
sendfile
nfs-server
mutt
telnetd
midentd
This needs to be changed!
Regards,
Joey
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GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them.
-- The GNU Manifesto
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