| sean finney on 23 Oct 2005 10:05:09 -0000 |
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hi jeff, On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:04:31PM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > Doing a dist-upgrade, I ran into problems that udev wants to be > installed but needs kernel 2.6.12. I'm running 2.6.8. There are two > bugs already filed against udev for not depending on 2.6.12 even > though it won't install without it. yeah, and reading the reports can be informative only as to how much of an ass some debian developers can be. sorry. > No problem, say I: I'll just upgrade to 2.6.12. But here start my > troubles: I can't upgrade to 2.6.12 because udev is pending > installation. But I can't uninstall udev because too much depends on > it. (I'd have to uninstall all of gnome, apparently, and that's just > what meets the eye right away. And it won't uninstall anyway because > udev isn't installed.) it sounds like you might be in a really tricky situation if you have a bunch of other packages installed (or half-installed) that depend on the new udev, but the new udev won't install. the two courses of action i could see that might help: - editing the config/preinst script /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev (whichever has the test causing install to fail) to disable the test, and then install the latest linux-image. note: i don't know udev so i don't know if this will break anything during that window. - download the new kernel debs (and relevent deps) and manually install them via dpkg (which you should still be able to do regardless of udev's state). Then hopefully a reboot into single-user mode will let you finish udev's installation. sean Attachment:
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