After moving from lenny to squeeze with a full-upgrade, I see this
final line of output from `aptitude full-upgrade

Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].

What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever
there are 8 broken of?

And the last item [-131] ... does it mean that -131 pkgs were
unaffected or that I have -131 useless pkgs or ...

Looking around the aptitude man page with search strings like:
`output' `full-upgrade' `broken'

Has not born enough fruit for me to understand what that output means.


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Harry Putnam schreef:

After moving from lenny to squeeze with a full-upgrade, I see this
final line of output from `aptitude full-upgrade

Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].

What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever
there are 8 broken of?
It means that eight packages have unmet dependencies. This is likely
because some leftover packages from lenny require packages that are no
longer available in squeeze. Use the aptitude ui to see which packages
are broken, or do a

aptitude search ~b
to get a list. This you can then fix.


And the last item [-131] ... does it mean that -131 pkgs were
unaffected or that I have -131 useless pkgs or ...
That 131 packages were upgraded, and the other 713 were not. This is
likely related to the 8 broken packages. This will require some manual
effort to fix the stuff.


Sjoerd

On 2010-02-19 16:42 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:

> Harry Putnam schreef:
>> After moving from lenny to squeeze with a full-upgrade, I see this
>> final line of output from `aptitude full-upgrade
>>
>> Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].
>>
>> What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever
>> there are 8 broken of?
> It means that eight packages have unmet dependencies. This is likely
> because some leftover packages from lenny require packages that are no
> longer available in squeeze.

To be more precise, this is likely because some other package(s) that
these now-broken packages depend on failed to unpack or configure, so
that their dependencies are currently unfulfilled.

Sven


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Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes:

>> Current status: 8 broken [+8], 713 updates [-131].
>>
>> What does that line mean. Do I need to investigate and fix whatever
>> there are 8 broken of?
> It means that eight packages have unmet dependencies. This is likely
> because some leftover packages from lenny require packages that are no
> longer available in squeeze. Use the aptitude ui to see which packages
> are broken, or do a
> aptitude search ~b
> to get a list. This you can then fix.
>>
>> And the last item [-131] ... does it mean that -131 pkgs were
>> unaffected or that I have -131 useless pkgs or ...
> That 131 packages were upgraded, and the other 713 were not. This is
> likely related to the 8 broken packages. This will require some manual
> effort to fix the stuff.

First off, where do you get the information? Just accumulated
experience or is the output of aptitude discussed at length somewhere?

The 8 broken ones are a sort of mishmash of useless and some necessary:

aptitude search ~b
B A libcompress-zlib-perl - Transitional dummy package for Compress::Z
B A libice-dev - X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (develop
B perl-doc - Perl documentation
B perl-modules - Core Perl modules
B A xserver-xorg-core - Xorg X server - core server
B A xsrvr-xorg-input-synaptics- Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
B A xserver-xorg-video-intel - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display
B A xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display drive


This install of debian is a vmware guest so the video card is svga
No need of touch pads at all

What might be required to get this cleaned up, and end up with a
`clean' squeeze install?



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I went through this exact same process awhile ago when I went from squeeze
to etch...

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> B A libcompress-zlib-perl - Transitional dummy package for Compress::Z
> B A libice-dev - X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (develop
> B perl-doc - Perl documentation
> B perl-modules - Core Perl modules

Not sure about these, I'd suggest "aptitude install"ing them one by one
and watching the output carefully.

> B A xserver-xorg-core - Xorg X server - core server
> B A xsrvr-xorg-input-synaptics- Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
> B A xserver-xorg-video-intel - X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display
> B A xserver-xorg-video-radeon - X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display drive

I would suggest removing these packages -- which will cause other packages
to want to go away as well, make note of any that are really important too
you, the others ignore, if you need them they should be brought back in as
dependancies when you do:

aptitude install xorg

Yours went a lot smoother than mine, I had to fight with gnome etc for
awhile too in order to get everything back into place.

A "broken" package may be due to failed dependancies, but what "broken"
really means is the package was unpacked into the filesystem, but
postinst/preinst hooks may have failed to complete successfully.

Cheers,
Tyler


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Tyler MacDonald <tyler@macdonald.name> writes:

> I went through this exact same process awhile ago when I went from squeeze
> to etch...
>

Thanks for nice help... very usefull.

Before getting into whats happening.. I'm currently and have been a
bit confused about debian naming/versioning setup.

I thought etch was quite a bit older than squeeze. I thought squeeze
was newer than `lenny'.. have I gotten all backwards?

Getting into the frey with the broken pkgs.. I see apt wanting to
install a whole herd of video drivers.

The following partially installed packages will be configured:
libcompress-zlib-perl libice-dev libsm-dev libxaw7-dev libxmu-dev
libxt-dev perl-doc perl-modules xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus
xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740
xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tseng
xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
7 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 705 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6397kB of archives. After unpacking 1487kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

------- --------- ---=--- --------- --------

Is there someway to tell the OS what card is installed? Its vmware so
its a svga card. Would I even need all that guff?


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Tyler MacDonald <tyler@macdonald.name> writes:

> Yours went a lot smoother than mine, I had to fight with gnome etc for
> awhile too in order to get everything back into place.

Maybe not:

After following the suggestions a ways I get this concluding line now:

Current status: 0 broken [-6], 704 updates [-7].

I guess it means there are still 704 pkgs needing updating.

`aptitude upgrade' is running agaub now


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