Axel Thimm wrote:
Try
apt-get check
first to see, whether apt detects something irregular in the rpm database. Then try
apt-get upgrade
(no dist). Any packages "held back" are candidated to have caused the panic to apt-get dist-upgrade.
I'm sorry to keep you waiting for the results of this. I know you have all been anxiously waiting to find out how this turned out. :-)
Before I saw your message, I had started yum with the following command yum update on Tuesday about 11:00 am and it just finished the update about two hours ago. I work on a dial-up line and the update took two days.
Anyway, after running yum update (which completed successfully) I ran apt-get check and it completed normally Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done
However when I ran apt-get --simulate upgrade it gave me a very long list of packages held back (attached to the end of this message)
Since the yum update completed successfully does that mean my rpm database should be OK? Is apt-get indicating problems with the database and if so are they because it is having trouble in an x86_64 system?
Carl.
# apt-get --simulate upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded automake automake14 automake15 automake16 automake17 cups-devel dump gd-devel libacl-devel libtiff-devel mysql-bench mysql-devel redhat-menus rmt ruby-mode sgml-common slang-devel system-config-date system-config-display system-config-kickstart system-config-services system-config-users tzdata words xml-common The following packages have been kept back MyODBC NetworkManager Omni Omni-foomatic acl alsa-lib alsa-lib-devel alsa-utils apr arts arts-devel at bash beecrypt bind-libs bind-utils boost boost-devel cups cups-libs curl curl-devel cvs dbus dbus-devel dbus-glib dbus-python dbus-x11 dhclient dhcpv6_client diffstat docbook-dtds elinks emacs-common enscript ethereal fedora-release fetchmail file firefox flac freeglut gamin gamin-devel gd gdb glib2 glib2-devel glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers gnupg gphoto2 grep gtk2 hal hotplug howl httpd httpd-suexec iiimf-libs iiimf-libs-devel initscripts ipsec-tools iptables jwhois kdeaddons kdeartwork kdebase kdebase-devel kdegraphics kdegraphics-devel kdelibs kdelibs-devel kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdenetwork-devel kdepim kdepim-devel kdesdk kdesdk-devel kdeutils kdeutils-devel kdevelop kdewebdev kernel-utils krb5-devel krb5-libs krb5-workstation lftp libacl libgcrypt libgpg-error libpng libpng-devel libpng10 libpng10-devel libraw1394 libselinux libselinux-devel libtiff libxml2 libxml2-devel libxml2-python libxslt libxslt-devel lm_sensors man module-init-tools mutt mysql mysql-server net-tools nfs-utils nscd openjade openmotif openmotif-devel openssh openssh-askpass openssh-askpass-gnome openssh-clients openssh-server pam pam-devel pcmcia-cs perl-HTML-Parser perl-XML-LibXML perl-XML-Parser perl-XML-Twig php php-mysql php-pear pkgconfig policycoreutils popt prelink procps python python-devel pyxf86config rhgb rhn-applet rhnlib rhpl rpm rpm-build rpm-devel rpm-python rsh ruby ruby-devel ruby-libs samba-client samba-common sane-backends sane-backends-devel selinux-policy-targeted shadow-utils slang sysklogd system-config-printer system-config-printer-gui system-config-securitylevel system-config-securitylevel-tui tcl tcsh udev up2date up2date-gnome vim-common vim-enhanced vim-minimal vixie-cron wireless-tools xorg-x11 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU xorg-x11-deprecated-libs xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel xorg-x11-devel xorg-x11-font-utils xorg-x11-libs xorg-x11-sdk xorg-x11-tools xorg-x11-twm xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-xdm xorg-x11-xfs yum zip zlib zlib-devel 25 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 194 not upgraded. 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