Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix the e2fsprogs problem that I'm getting? What is the error trying to tell me?

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xbox:/# apt-get build-dep mythtv
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
language-env libmysqlclient10-dev locales xfree86-common xlibmesa-glu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-4.0-base libartsc0-dev libasound2-dev libaudio-dev libaudio2 libavc1394-0 libavc1394-dev libdmx1 libdvb-dev libexpat1-dev
libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libfs6 libglib2.0-dev libglu1-xorg libglu1-xorg-dev libice-dev libiec61883-0 libiec61883-dev
libjpeg62-dev liblame-dev liblcms1-dev liblircclient-dev libmng-dev libmysqlclient15 libmysqlclient15-dev libogg-dev libpng12-dev
libqt3-headers libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libraw1394-5 libraw1394-8 libraw1394-dev libsm-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxau6 libxaw8
libxcursor-dev libxdmcp6 libxext-dev libxfixes3 libxft-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxinerama1 libxkbfile-dev libxkbfile1 libxkbui1
libxmu-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxss1 libxt-dev libxv-dev libxvmc-dev libxvmc1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86misc1 libxxf86vm-dev
libxxf86vm1 lsb-base pkg-config qt3-dev-tools render-dev x-dev x11-common xlibmesa-gl-dev xlibs-static-dev xserver-xorg
The following packages will be upgraded:
e2fslibs e2fsprogs libartsc0 libasound2 libc6 libc6-dev libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libglib2.0-0 libice6 libjpeg62
liblame0 liblircclient0 libogg0 libpng12-0 libsm6 libstdc++6 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libx11-6 libxext6 libxft2 libxi6
libxmu6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxv1 mysql-common x-window-system-core xbase-clients xlibmesa-gl xlibs xserver-common
xserver-xfree86 xutils
39 upgraded, 71 newly installed, 5 to remove and 393 not upgraded.
Need to get 52.9MB of archives.
After unpacking 71.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
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"packages installed"

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E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs
E: Failed to process build dependencies
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T.I.A.

Hi,

This topic is covered pretty well in this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...fsprogs+debian

Hope it helps you out.
Good luck

So my take on the reading is that the system is trying to go from pre-stable to testing, skipping stable? Is that a valid assesment?

Does that mean if I go to stable then to testing I should be good to go? Exactly which file(s) need to be upgraded? e2fsprogs?

Can I just change the sources.list to stable, run apt-get update, then change to unstable and run apt-get update again?

Thanks for any light you can shed.

Any other thoughts???

I just dealt with that problem 2 days ago, and, ummm, kind of solved it by dumb luck.
My situation is that I installed sarge about 8 months back when it was still testing and haven't really done much in the meantime. What I *think* I did to fix this was switched my /etc/apt/sources.list to stable (well, I know I did that) and then, in aptitude, just re-installed e2fsprogs- I'm still a little shaky with aptitude so I can't say for sure that all I did was re-install it. THere was a lot going on with colors and toggling and it was perhaps too much stimulation for me.

Anyway, I guess that's the same thing as if you just apt-get reinstall, so perhaps I'm adding nothing to this thread.

No, I think your exactly right.

I think I fixed it last night by going back to stable running 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get install e2fsprogs', it updated e2fsprogs and an e2fsprogs lib which was a welcome sign and what the problem appeared to be.

I then changed back to testing and ran 'apt-get update' again and haven't had any problems, well any related to e2fsprogs anyway.

Hopefully this thread will help someone else having the same problem.

Thanks,

vbtalent