Errors upgrading remote debian server

irvken · 03-24-2010, 10:37 AM

I'm trying to upgrade a remote server that's not been touched in yonks and getting the following errors?

Code:

apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  apt apt-utils aptitude dhcp-client dpkg dselect fontconfig gcc-4.2-base
  libaprutil1 libdbd-mysql-perl libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgd2-xpm
  libgdchart-gd2-xpm libice6 libnet-ssleay-perl libperl5.10 libsm6 libstdc++6
  libx11-6 libxext6 libxpm4 lynx nmap pciutils perl perl-base ppp pppoeconf
  python ssh ssl-cert sysvinit tasksel util-linux whiptail
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libkrb53
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
64 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/482kB of archives.
After unpacking 65.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 16088 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 (using .../libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libkrb53 ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2', which is also in package libgssapi-krb5-2
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libkrb53_1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

AlucardZero · 03-24-2010, 11:05 AM

You seem to be running a mixed stable/testing system, which is bad. Post your sources.list.

As the error says, a file in libkrb53 also exists in libgssapi-krb5-2 and there is a conflict. However the latter is only in squeeze and above and the former is only in lenny and below.

irvken · 03-24-2010, 03:11 PM

Yep that's about right, when I came to update it the sources list was as follows

Quote:

#deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian unstable main non-free contrib
#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

But wasn't working at all, just bombed out saying Reading Package Lists... Error! I changed it to this below, but am getting the errors above

Quote:

deb http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/debian stable main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

Is it fixable?

AlucardZero · 03-24-2010, 03:16 PM

Did you apt-get update?

irvken · 03-24-2010, 04:33 PM

yep, did that first, that works fine

Quote:

lists:/home/sean# apt-get update
Get:1 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk stable/main Packages [6725kB]
Get:2 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk stable/main Release [95B]
Get:3 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk stable/non-free Packages [122kB]
Get:4 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk stable/non-free Release [99B]
Get:5 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk stable/contrib Packages [92.5kB]
Get:6 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk stable/contrib Release [98B]
Fetched 6940kB in 1s (4017kB/s)
Reading Package Lists... Done
lists:/home/sean#

AlucardZero · 03-24-2010, 05:13 PM

Try removing libgssapi-krb5-2. But who knows what else is broken since you have packages from unstable and stable on the same system.

irvken · 03-30-2010, 01:21 PM

Cheers, that did the trick, couple of other packages as well needed removing, but it all looks like it's working well now.