[PLUG] debian upgrade hell: udev and kernel 2.6.12

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

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.

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.)

Any suggestions?

Here's the initial details:

  astra:/home/jeff# apt-get -f install
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    udev
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    udev
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 156 not upgraded.
  53 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B/300kB of archives.
  After unpacking 242kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
  (Reading database ... 151258 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.070-2_i386.deb) ...
  udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted.
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.070-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.070-2_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  astra:/home/jeff# uname -a
  Linux astra 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Thu May 19 17:53:30 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
  astra:/home/jeff# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    hal: Depends: udev (>= 0.063) but 0.056-3 is to be installed
    kernel-image-2.6-686: Depends: linux-image-2.6-686 but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  astra:/home/jeff#


Here's what happens if I try removing things:

  astra:/home/jeff# apt-get remove udev
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    hal: Depends: udev (>= 0.063) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  astra:/home/jeff# apt-get remove udev hal
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    gnome-volume-manager: Depends: hal (>= 0.4.1) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  astra:/home/jeff# apt-get -f remove udev hal gnome-volume-manager
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: gnome-volume-manager (>= 1.1.2-3) but it is not going to be installed or
					magicdev but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  astra:/home/jeff# apt-get -f remove udev hal gnome-volume-manager gnome-desktop-environment
  Reading Package Lists... Done
  Building Dependency Tree... Done
  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    gnome: Depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 64) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  astra:/home/jeff#

-- 
 Jeff

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