[K12OSN] apt dist-upgrade problems

[Richard-nh]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 08:55, Gavin Chester wrote:
> I tried an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' only a few days after the last 'apt-
> get upgrade' and got a few errors that have bamboozled this punter.
> With a bit of judicious cutting and pasting from the command line 
output
> it boils down to this:  
> 
> [root at local ~]# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 
> -snip-
> 
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   fonts-xorg-truetype: Obsoletes: xorg-x11-truetype-fonts but 6.7.0-11
> is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Run as stated:
apt-get -f install

That fixed most of my dependency problems. 

Richard.
 
> ... that's one problem, then >
> 
> [root at local ~]# apt-get dist-upgrade -f
> 
> -snip-
> 
>    1:raidtools              
###########################################
> [ 17%]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /sbin/mkraid: cpio:
> lsetfilecon failed - Invalid argument
>    2:gnome-volume-manager   
###########################################
> [ 33%]
>    3:openoffice.org-i18n    
###########################################
> [ 50%]
>    4:openoffice.org         
###########################################
> [ 67%]
> File '/usr/share/applications/fedora-scribus.desktop' contains invalid
> MIME type 'scd,scd.gz,sla,sla.gz' that contains invalid characters
> File '/usr/share/applications/fedora-scribus.desktop' contains invalid
> MIME type 'scd,scd.gz,sla,sla.gz' that contains invalid characters
>    5:openoffice.org-libs    
###########################################
> [ 83%]
>    6:gamin-devel            
###########################################
> [100%]
> W: Some errors occurred while running transaction
> 
> I don't know if it a hint or a red herring, but I screwed up my rpm
> database by trying to use Dags repository one more time before 
removing
> it from my list and rebuilding the rpm database.  The error above came
> after that process and rebuild.  
> 
> Are others seeing anything like this?  Any hints about how to resolve
> it?                                      
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
>         Gavin Chester,
> 
> 
> 
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