[plug] Problem updating Sarge server

[Chris Caston]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 07:58, Meryon Montgomery wrote:
> apt-get clean might so the job
> 
> 

Thank you.Last night I was trying clear and purge...

I noticed in my apt sources file it was set to testing instead of
stable. Perhaps I used an old sarge iso by accident?

I changed this to stable and am trying to update the system now.

thanks,

Chris
> On 07/09/2005, at 10:33 PM, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I got spooked out when there was some serious data corruption on my
> > server so I started rebuilding on a completely different machine.
> >
> > Now I'm having some issues with updating Sarge with the latest security
> > and other updates:
> >
> > Need to get 0B/36.1MB of archives.
> > After unpacking 6544kB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> > 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
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > I changed from wa.au.debian.org or au.debian.org but it made no
> > difference. Mind you I might need to purge the apt cache perhaps? What
> > was the command for this again?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >
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