On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 02:23:28PM +0200, maxime freepote via Dng wrote:
> I had to use the conflict resolutioni tool of aptitude after an "apt-get
> full-upgrade". Python was the main cause of this behaviour but also external
> packages from non-standard repositories. Except this, all of the upgrade went
> well, from a devuan that also runs since ascii.

I once had problems like this with a low-level display-related package.
Two packages turned out to contain the same file, and so only one could
remain. I thought it was a packageing problem (such packages should not
be in one repository, but it turned out that a previous upgrade (done a
year or more ago) hadn't completed properly, and so I still had (and was
presumably using) a package from multiple releases ago. I had to delete
it using dpkg. apt and aptitude kept failing because of the undeclared
conflict.

-- hendrik

>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Maxime
>
> package sources.
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 07:56:47AM -0400, . via Dng wrote:
> > On 10/17/21 07:48, terryc wrote:
> > > > I'm sorry to report that I tried a dist-upgrade from devuan beowulf
> > > > with KDE on an older machine.  The result was a system with a
> > > > nonfunctional window manager and messed-up display resolution, and no
> > > > working Ethernet connection (and no wifi hardware).
> > > AFAIK, that isn't the way you are supposed to do it.
> > >

> > > Under beowulf; I did
> > >       sudo apt-get update
> > >       sudo apt-get upgrade
> > >       sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > reboot

> >
> > Hmmm.  I edited /etc/apt/sources.lst to use chimaera debs first, under
> > beowulf, then did the above sequence.
> >
> > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to change beowulf to chimaera
> > > I actually copy and date the deb lines and edit version to chimaera and
> > > comment out the beowulf lines so there is a history record.
> > >

> > > Them with chimaera in the /etc/apt/sources.list
> > >       sudo apt-get update
> > >       sudo apt-get upgrade
> > >       sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > reboot and repeat;
> > >       sudo apt-get update
> > >       sudo apt-get upgrade
> > >       sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > rebbot.

> >
> > Well, it can't hurt to try another update/upgrade cycle; I had a konsole
> > open during the last reboot and it was restored, so I can do command-line
> > things (and what else could I possibly need :-) If that doesn't fix things
> > up then it's nuke-and-repave time.
> >
> > -bobmon
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