I'd like to upgrade gnome, I have etch 4.0 stable, I tried "apt-get upgrade gnome" and got this result, What next?

debian:/home/frank# apt-get upgrade gnome
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.18-4-486 on running kernel 2.6.18-4-486 in /usr/sbin/yaird
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-486
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code

do you have initramfs-tools installed ? I believe this package is needed to be able to create the boot image when updating a kernel.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/...nitramfs-tools



and wow are you really running a 486 ? if you are running a PII or higher you might want to switch to the 686 kernel. 486 kernel will work fine, however it won't take advantage of the added functions in the Newer CPUs
aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686

Which version of Gnome are you running now? The latest version I believe is 2.18. If you want bleeding edge, you may need to add "unstable" repo to get what you want but even Debian unstable may not even have 2.18 and still the older 2.16.

Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.18-4-486 on running kernel 2.6.18-4-486 in /usr/sbin/yaird
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Failed to find suitable ramdisk generation tool for kernel version
2.6.18-4-686 on running kernel 2.6.18-4-486 in /usr/sbin/yaird
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686:
linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.18-4-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
linux-image-2.6.18-4-486
linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
linux-image-2.6-686
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
debian:/home/frank# uname -rn
debian 2.6.18-4-486
debian:/home/frank# uname -m
i686
debian:/home/frank#

How do I go about correcting this?

I already told you how to fix that.. did you not do what I said in my first reply ?

install initramfs-tools

I think I did?
debian:/home/frank# apt-cache policy initramfs-tools
initramfs-tools:
Installed: 0.87b
Candidate: 0.87b
Version table:
*** 0.87b 0
500 http://ftp.debian.org lenny/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

debian:/home/frank# aptitude install linux-image-2.6-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
gnome-themes-extras
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done

How come,
The following packages have been kept back:
gnome-themes-extras?

Ouch that's just not a good idea mixing and matching repos like that.

The package has been upgraded and now contains another package inside of it that used to not be. I just saw this issue last night myself.

Just run dist-upgrade to take care of the issue (it will remove the conflicting package that gnome-themes-extras now contains)

As for the kernel thing - it looks to be solved.

As for Gnome 2.18, its not in Lenny, and I dont think its in Sid either. Might have to pull it from Experimental, or compile it yourself.

It's in Sid.

Proof I live under a rock.

Thanks Guy's as of now I'll stay with what I have Etch 4.0.
Great bunch in this forum, Thanks