apt-get dist-upgrade failure

[Manu Hack]

Hi,

I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck.  Please let me know what could be done here.

Thanks a lot.

Manu



$ sudo apt-get update
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch Release
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing Release
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org etch/main Sources
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Reading package lists... Done
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libbonobo2-0: Depends: libbonobo2-common (= 2.22.0-1) but 2.14.0-3 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
$ sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libcamel1.2-8 libebook1.2-5 libgssapi2 libnss3-0d libopal-2.2.0 libpci2 libpt-plugins-alsa libpt-plugins-v4l libssp0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  acpi-support-base bsd-mailx eject filters g++-4.2 gcc-4.2 grub-common gs gs-common gs-gpl hal hal-info kdebase-bin-kde3
  libavcodec1d libavformat1d libavutil1d libbind9-30 libc-ares1 libcamel1.2-11 libccid libcdio7 libcrypto++7 libcurl3-gnutls
  libdevmapper1.02.1 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdirectfb-extra libdmx1 libdns32 libebml0 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-cal1.2-6
  libegroupwise1.2-13 libfaad0 libflac8 libfreebob0 libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgif4 libgssglue1 libiec61883-0
  libilmbase6 libisc32 libisccc30 libisccfg30 libiso9660-5 libiw29 libjack0 libjasper1 libltdl3 liblwres30 liblzo2-2 libmatroska0
  libnetpbm10 libnss3-1d libobparser16 libobrender16 libopal-2.2 libopenexr6 libpam-gnome-keyring libpci3 libpcsclite1
  libpostproc1d libpq5 libpt-1.10.10 libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l librarian0 libsamplerate0 libsmbios-bin
  libsmbios1 libsmbiosxml1 libsnack2 libsoup2.4-1 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base libsox0 libspeexdsp1 libsplashy1 libssh2-1
  libstdc++6-4.2-dev libts-0.0-0 libx86-1 linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 netcat-traditional netpbm nvclock openssh-blacklist pcscd
  pm-utils psfontmgr python-sepolgen tcl8.5 tk8.5 uuid-runtime vim-gnome x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils
  x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth xinit xorg-docs xserver-xorg-video-intel
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  ca-certificates chameleon-cursor-theme comixcursors console-tools cowsay cpp-4.1 cpufrequtils cron crystalcursors
  cyrus-sasl2-doc dc debfoster debian-archive-keyring dhcp3-client dhcp3-common dictionaries-common dmidecode dnsutils
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  iamerican ibritish iceweasel imlib-base imlib11 info initramfs-tools initscripts installation-report iptables iputils-ping
  ispell kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdm klibc-utils klogd laptop-detect less lesstif2 lftp liba52-0.7.4
  libaa1 libapm1 libapr1 libarts1c2a libartsc0 libaudio2 libavahi-qt3-1 libblkid1 libbonobo2-common libcaca0 libcdparanoia0
  libconsole libcpufreq0 libcucul0 libcurl3 libdb4.2 libdb4.3 libdb4.4 libdc1394-13 libdvbpsi4 libdvdnav4 libdvdread3
  libedata-book1.2-2 libedit2 libevent1 libflash-mozplugin libflash0c2 libfontenc1 libfribidi0 libgc1c2 libgcj7-jar libgd2-noxpm
  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgnome-desktop-2 libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0
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  libjack0.100.0-0 libklibc liblcms1 libldap2 liblircclient0 liblockfile1 liblogfile-rotate-perl liblua50 liblualib50 libmad0
  libmodplug0c2 libmpeg2-4 libmysqlclient15off libnfsidmap2 libogg0 libpaper1 libqt3-mt libraw1394-8 librpcsecgss3 librplay3
  libruby1.8 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsmbclient libsoup2.2-8 libspeex1 libss2 libstdc++6-4.1-dev
  libsvga1 libsysfs2 libt1-5 libtar libtasn1-3-bin libtheora0 libtwolame0 libungif4g libuuid1 libvcdinfo0 libvlc0 libvolume-id0
  libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libwrap0 libwraster3 libxaw7 libxdmcp6 libxfont1 libxkbfile1 libxml2-utils libxmu6
  libxmuu1 libxosd2 libxpm4 libxslt1.1 libxss1 libxt6 libxul-common libxul0d libxv1 libxvmc1 libxxf86dga1 links2
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  mount mpack mpg123 mplayer mplayer-skin-blue mtools mtr-tiny mysql-common nano ncurses-base ncurses-term net-tools netbase
  netcat nfs-common ntp ntpdate obconf openbox openbox-themes openbsd-inetd openssh-client openssh-server openssl pciutils
  pcmcia-cs pcmciautils pidentd policycoreutils portmap powermgmt-base procps reportbug rxvt screen
  selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted sharutils sox strace sudo sysklogd sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils tar tasksel tasksel-data
  tcl8.4 tcltls tcpd tk8.4 toshset traceroute type-handling udev update-inetd usbutils uswsusp util-linux vbetool vim vim-common
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  wmwork wpasupplicant xbase-clients xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xkb-data xml-core xorg
  xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils xscreensaver xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
  xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
  xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint
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  xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xsltproc xterm xutils
  xutils-dev yelp
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198 not fully installed or removed.
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perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
(Reading database ... 64289 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libbonobo2-common 2.14.0-3 (using .../libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libbonobo2-common ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Ron Johnson]

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On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get
> dist-upgrade got stuck.  Please let me know what could be done here.
>
> Thanks a lot.

IMO, Etch and Lenny/Testing are far enough apart, that running a
combined Stable/Testing system is bound to cause you troubles.  Just
like the ones you just ran into.

Choose Lenny or Etch.

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[Francis Earl-3]

On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get
> > dist-upgrade got stuck.  Please let me know what could be done here.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.

It says to try 'apt-get -f install'. Have you tried that?

> IMO, Etch and Lenny/Testing are far enough apart, that running a
> combined Stable/Testing system is bound to cause you troubles.  Just
> like the ones you just ran into.
>
> Choose Lenny or Etch.

He stated he is choosing Lenny... this is a dist-upgrade from etch -> lenny.


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[Ron Johnson]

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On 05/16/08 15:48, Francis Earl wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> Choose Lenny or Etch.
>
> He stated he is choosing Lenny... this is a dist-upgrade from etch -> lenny.

So it did.  I'll go hide in the corner now.

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[Preston Boyington-2]

Manu Hack wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get
> dist-upgrade got stuck.  Please let me know what could be done here.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Manu
>
>

i wonder if you could do this:

dpkg -i --force-overwrite
/var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb

i've had to use --force-overwrite from time to time...


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[Manu Hack]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Preston Boyington <preston.lists@...> wrote:

Manu Hack wrote:

Hi,

I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get dist-upgrade got stuck.  Please let me know what could be done here.

Thanks a lot.

Manu

i wonder if you could do this:

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb

i've had to use --force-overwrite from time to time...

Forgot to reply all.

Still getting the same error of

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):


 unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Got the same error with apt-get -f install

And the file

/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo

is so weird that even sudo rm  /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo said I don't have the permission to do so.  (Operation not permitted)

Manu

[Raj Kiran Grandhi-3]

Manu Hack wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Preston Boyington
> <preston.lists@... <mailto:preston.lists@...>> wrote:
>
>     Manu Hack wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get
>         dist-upgrade got stuck.  Please let me know what could be done here.
>
>         Thanks a lot.
>
>         Manu
>
>
>
>     i wonder if you could do this:
>
>     dpkg -i --force-overwrite
>     /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb
>
>     i've had to use --force-overwrite from time to time...
>
>
> Forgot to reply all.
>
> Still getting the same error of
>
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libbonobo2-common_2.22.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>
>
>  unable to make backup link of `./usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo <http://libbonobo-2.0.mo/>' before installing new version: Operation not permitted
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>
> Got the same error with apt-get -f install
>
> And the file
>
> /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
>
> is so weird that even sudo rm  
> /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
> said I don't have the permission to do so.  
> (Operation not permitted)

Please elaborate on what you mean by 'weird'. Is it a symbolic link or a
regular file?

Try becoming root with 'sudo -i' and remove that file. root should be
able to delete any regular file irrespective of whether it is being used
or not. Nobody tells root he can't do something (outside of some special
directories). You should suspect something seriously wrong if your
system behaves otherwise.

For your present problem with locales, install localepurge and get rid
of all the locales that you don't care about.


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[Mike Bird-2]

On Fri May 16 2008 18:05:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

> Manu Hack wrote:
> > is so weird that even sudo rm
> > /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
> > said I don't have the permission to do so.
> > (Operation not permitted)
>
> Try becoming root with 'sudo -i' and remove that file. root should be
> able to delete any regular file irrespective of whether it is being used
> or not. Nobody tells root he can't do something (outside of some special
> directories). You should suspect something seriously wrong if your
> system behaves otherwise.

That's not quite true.  Attributes such as immutable are
sometimes set by malware or disk errors.  OP please show
us the output of the following two commands:

file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
lsattr -d /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo

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[Manu Hack]

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Sorry guys, haven't been able to use that box until now.

On 5/16/08, Mike Bird <mgb-debian@...> wrote:

On Fri May 16 2008 18:05:57 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:

> Manu Hack wrote:
> > is so weird that even sudo rm
> > /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
> > said I don't have the permission to do so.
> > (Operation not permitted)
>

> Try becoming root with 'sudo -i' and remove that file. root should be
> able to delete any regular file irrespective of whether it is being used
> or not. Nobody tells root he can't do something (outside of some special
> directories). You should suspect something seriously wrong if your
> system behaves otherwise.


That's not quite true.  Attributes such as immutable are
sometimes set by malware or disk errors.  OP please show
us the output of the following two commands:


file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo

/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo: GNU message catalog (little endian), revision 0, 106 messages

lsattr -d /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES

suSDiadAc-ZXEj-tT- /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.m

What's happening?

Manu

[Mike Bird-2]

On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote:

> > That's not quite true.  Attributes such as immutable are
> > sometimes set by malware or disk errors.  OP please show
> > us the output of the following two commands:
> >
> > file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
>
> /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo: GNU message catalog
> (little endian), revision 0, 106 messages
>
> lsattr -d /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
>
> suSDiadAc-ZXEj-tT- /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.m
>
> What's happening?

The file attributes are complete garbage.  Probably a minor
hardware glitch.  Remove all attributes and try the upgrade
again.  Here's the command, and yes the "=" is surrounded
by spaces.

"chattr = /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo"

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[Manu Hack]

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-debian@...> wrote:

On Fri May 23 2008 13:54:59 Manu Hack wrote:
> > That's not quite true.  Attributes such as immutable are
> > sometimes set by malware or disk errors.  OP please show
> > us the output of the following two commands:
> >
> > file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo
>
> /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo: GNU message catalog
> (little endian), revision 0, 106 messages
>
> lsattr -d /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES
>
> suSDiadAc-ZXEj-tT- /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.m
>
> What's happening?

The file attributes are complete garbage.  Probably a minor
hardware glitch.  Remove all attributes and try the upgrade
again.  Here's the command, and yes the "=" is surrounded
by spaces.

"chattr = /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libbonobo-2.0.mo"

It works!  Debian is the best!

Thanks a lot!

Manu