The last time I updated a system from Debian Lenny to a more recent Debian version I discovered a problem. This was from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and at the end I upgraded to Debian Wheezy. This was caused by tar being an old version and not the most recent version, this is something that shouldn’t happen. The solution I used was installing a more recent tar version.<\/p>\n
The problem:<\/p>\n
server:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
\nReading package lists… Done
\nBuilding dependency tree
\nReading state information… Done
\nYou might want to run `apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
\nThe following packages have unmet dependencies:
\ndpkg-dev: Depends: base-files (>= 5.0.0) but 5lenny6 is installed
\nRecommends: libalgorithm-merge-perl but it is not installed
\nlibc6: Breaks: locales-all (< 2.13) but 2.11.3-2 is installed
\nlibc6-amd64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-27 is installed
\nlibc6-i686: PreDepends: libc6 (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-27 is installed
\nlocales-all: Depends: glibc-2.11-1
\nE: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
\nserver:~# apt-get -f install
\nReading package lists… Done
\nBuilding dependency tree
\nReading state information… Done
\nCorrecting dependencies… Done
\nThe following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
\n(…)<\/p>\nUse ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
\nThe following extra packages will be installed:
\nbase-files
\nThe following packages will be REMOVED:
\nlib64gcc1 lib64gomp1 libc6-amd64 libc6-i686 locales-all
\nThe following packages will be upgraded:
\nbase-files
\n1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 340 not upgraded.
\n1 not fully installed or removed.
\nNeed to get 67.5kB of archives.
\nAfter this operation, 16.7MB disk space will be freed.
\nDo you want to continue [Y\/n]? y
\nGet:1 http:\/\/debian.apt-get.eu squeeze\/main base-files 6.0squeeze4 [67.5kB]
\nFetched 67.5kB in 0s (2072kB\/s)
\ntar: unrecognized option `–warning=no-timestamp’
\nTry `tar –help’ or `tar –usage’ for more information.
\ndpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64
\ndpkg: error processing \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/base-files_6.0squeeze4_i386.deb (–unpack):
\nsubprocess dpkg-deb –control returned error exit status 2
\nErrors were encountered while processing:
\n\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/base-files_6.0squeeze4_i386.deb
\nE: Sub-process \/usr\/bin\/dpkg returned an error code (1)
\nserver:~# aptitude full-upgrade
\nReading package lists… Done
\nBuilding dependency tree
\nReading state information… Done
\nReading extended state information
\nInitializing package states… Done
\nWriting extended state information… Done
\nReading task descriptions… Done
\nThe following packages are BROKEN:
\n(…)
\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:
\n(…)
\nThe following partially installed packages will be configured:
\ndpkg-dev
\nThe following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
\n(…)<\/p>\n334 packages upgraded, 72 newly installed, 24 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
\nNeed to get 234MB\/234MB of archives. After unpacking 244MB will be used.
\nThe following packages have unmet dependencies:
\nlibfont-freetype-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.0 which is a virtual package.
\nlocales-all: Depends: glibc-2.11-1 which is a virtual package.
\nlibc6-i686: PreDepends: libc6 (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-27 is installed.
\nlibept0: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.7-6-4.6 which is a virtual package.
\nlibuuid-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.10.1 which is a virtual package.
\nlibcap-dev: Depends: libcap2 (= 1:2.19-3) but 1:2.22-1 is installed.
\nlibc6-amd64: Depends: libc6 (= 2.11.3-2) but 2.13-27 is installed.
\nlibmudflap0-dev: Depends: gcc-4.1-base (= 4.1.2-25) but 4.1.2-29 is to be installed.
\nlibc6: Breaks: locales-all (< 2.13) but 2.11.3-2 is installed.
\nThe following actions will resolve these dependencies:<\/p>\nRemove the following packages:
\nlib64gcc1
\nlib64gomp1
\nlibc6-amd64
\nlibc6-i686
\nlibept0
\nlibmudflap0-dev
\nlinux-image-2.6-486
\nlinux-image-2.6-686-bigmem
\nlocales-all<\/p>\nKeep the following packages at their current version:
\nlibcap-dev [1:1.10-14 (now)]
\nlibfont-freetype-perl [Not Installed]
\nlibuuid-perl [Not Installed]
\nlinux-base [Not Installed]
\nlinux-image-2.6.32-5-486 [Not Installed]
\nlinux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem [Not Installed]<\/p>\nLeave the following dependencies unresolved:
\ndefoma recommends libfont-freetype-perl
\nlinux-image-2.6.26-2-686-bigmem recommends libc6-i686
\nlibc6 recommends libc6-i686
\nScore is 190<\/p>\nAccept this solution? [Y\/n\/q\/?]y
\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:
\n(…)
\nThe following packages will be upgraded:
\n(…)
\nThe following partially installed packages will be configured:
\ndpkg-dev
\nThe following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
\n(…)
\n328 packages upgraded, 66 newly installed, 34 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
\nNeed to get 178MB\/178MB of archives. After unpacking 61.9MB will be used.
\nDo you want to continue? [Y\/n\/?] y<\/p>\n(…)<\/p>\n
Fetched 178MB in 12s (14.0MB\/s)
\nExtracting templates from packages: 100%
\nPreconfiguring packages …
\ntar: unrecognized option `–warning=no-timestamp’
\nTry `tar –help’ or `tar –usage’ for more information.
\ndpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64
\ndpkg: error processing \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/patch_2.6-2_i386.deb (–unpack):
\nsubprocess dpkg-deb –control returned error exit status 2
\ntar: unrecognized option `–warning=no-timestamp’
\nTry `tar –help’ or `tar –usage’ for more information.
\ndpkg-deb: error: subprocess tar returned error exit status 64
\ndpkg: error processing \/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/base-files_6.0squeeze4_i386.deb (–unpack):
\nsubprocess dpkg-deb –control returned error exit status 2
\nErrors were encountered while processing:
\n\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/patch_2.6-2_i386.deb
\n\/var\/cache\/apt\/archives\/base-files_6.0squeeze4_i386.deb
\nE: Sub-process \/usr\/bin\/dpkg returned an error code (1)
\nA package failed to install. \u00a0Trying to recover:
\ndpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dpkg-dev:
\ndpkg-dev depends on base-files (>= 5.0.0); however:
\nVersion of base-files on system is 5lenny6.
\ndpkg: error processing dpkg-dev (–configure):
\ndependency problems – leaving unconfigured
\nErrors were encountered while processing:
\ndpkg-dev
\nReading package lists… Done
\nBuilding dependency tree
\nReading state information… Done
\nReading extended state information
\nInitializing package states… Done
\nWriting extended state information… Done
\nReading task descriptions… Done<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLike you can see there was an error while upgrading the Debian system. The first thing I did try didn’t work:<\/p>\n
cd \/usr\/bin<\/p>\n
mv dpkg dpkg-old<\/p>\n
mv dpkg-deb dpkg-deb-old
\nmv dpkg-divert dpkg-divert-old
\nmv dpkg-maintscript-helper dpkg-maintscript-helper-old
\nmv dpkg-split dpkg-split-old
\nmv dpkg-query dpkg-query-old
\nmv dpkg-statoverride dpkg-statoverride-old
\nmv dpkg-trigger dpkg-trigger-old<\/p>\nscp other_server_with_debian_lenny_and_same_kernel:\/usr\/bin\/dpk* .\/<\/p>\n
chmod a+x dpk*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This didn’t solve the problems. After that I did download and install a newer tar version. This is something you can copy (please change version number\/kernel type when needed):<\/p>\n
mkdir \/tmp\/tar<\/p>\n
cd \/tmp\/tar<\/p>\n
wget http:\/\/ftp.br.debian.org\/debian\/pool\/main\/t\/tar\/tar_1.26-4_i386.deb<\/p>\n
ar x tar_1.26-4_i386.deb<\/p>\n
tar xzf data.tar.gz<\/p>\n
cp -p \/bin\/tar \/bin\/tar-old<\/p>\n
cp -p bin\/tar \/bin\/tar<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This way tar was installed and upgrading was possible again without really big problems. Below was what I did next.<\/p>\n
nano \/etc\/apt\/sources.list # Change it to Debian Wheezy<\/p>\n
apt-get clean<\/p>\n
apt-get update<\/p>\n
apt-get install tar<\/p>\n
apt-get dist-upgrade # Did give a problem<\/p>\n
apt-get -f install # Didn’t really work<\/p>\n
aptitude full-upgrade # Multiple times, till there where no packages to update\/upgrade<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That was how it was solved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The last time I updated a system from Debian Lenny to a more recent Debian version I discovered a problem. This was from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze and at the end I upgraded to Debian Wheezy. This was caused … Continue reading