On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Eben King wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:11:54AM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>>
>>> So I tried to upgrade mplayer. apt wanted to do what seems to be its
>>> usual
>>> thing now, which is to uninstall package A and then install package A++.
>>> (There were 63 things to do.) This time, it hung partway through
>>> (couldn't
>>> remove /usr/X11/bin which is used by opera). So some things (for example
>>> xterm) got uninstalled and never reinstalled. What I think is the
>>> solution
>>> is to go to runlevel 1 and use aptitude (or apt-get) to fix the problem.
>>> I
>>> don't know the syntax for either one of those. Help?
>>
>> To move to single user mode,
>>
>> telinit 1
>
> Right, knew that.
>
>> Then you can run aptitude as usual.
>
> That's what I don't know.
OK, I figured out some. '+' toggles "to install" mark, '-' toggles "to
remove" mark. Installl might have deps, 'e'xamine them or '!'approve them.
'g' shows what's to be done, 'g' again does it.
> I restored /usr from (yesterday's) backup. Didn't fix X -- I still can't run
> startx. Maybe it depends on something in / .
In aptitude, I told it to clear the cache. I'm pretty sure one of the
packages there was corrupt. There are five packages with unsatisfied deps
-- imake, libgl1-mesa, makedepend, x-window-system-core, xmkmf -- so it
wants to delete them.
After installation fails, I can scroll back and the first error is:
Replacing files in old package xinit ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb (--unpack):
tring to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin`, which is also in package opera
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb
E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
and it continues with a sordid tale. Any ideas? I can replace the whole
disk with yesterday's backup. I have half a mind to do that, since I've
already tarred up stuff in ~ that was modified in the last day.
-- -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81And we never failed to fail / It was the easiest thing to do -- CSN
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