apt-get dist-upgrade on bork won't work. how to fix

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apt-get dist-upgrade on bork won't work. how to fix

Unread post by CotVospem » Thu May 21, 2015 9:31 am

apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix?
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repair with -f ends with:

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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by simgin » Thu May 21, 2015 9:55 am

Hi and welcome Cot, is this a 'hotfix' or maybe it is to early in the morning for me to understand the thread :)
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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by GekkoP » Thu May 21, 2015 10:09 am

You can safely remove those packages: see http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2097

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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by machinebacon » Thu May 21, 2015 11:17 am

Remove the two packages ("purge syslinux syslinux-common"), continue the upgrade ("ins -f"), and install them again if you want - they are optional packages only needed if you want to make a remaster. They were static versions from experimental (due to unresolved bugs) before Jessie got released, now syslinux from unstable carries a different version, so they conflict.
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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu May 21, 2015 11:56 am

Moved to support because it is not a warning anymore.

Btw, an introduction would not be bad.

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu May 21, 2015 12:01 pm

Ah - I just tripped over this one this morning.
Simply did as bacon suggested, everything fine. :)
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Unread post by rhowaldt » Thu May 21, 2015 8:50 pm

@simon: :D
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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by CotVospem » Thu May 21, 2015 9:31 pm

Ok, thx. Now apt-get is working. But X is crashing in virtualbox:

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Unread post by simgin » Thu May 21, 2015 9:55 pm

We don't support installations in VirtualBox, VMWare, qemu or others.
Just saying, rules are at the top of this page...
But hey, never say never ;)
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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by machinebacon » Fri May 22, 2015 3:09 am

^^ That crash is an upstream bug in the new kernels >4.0, report it to Oracle (see https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13835 for example) ;) Or go back to kernel 3.16 in the GRUB menu, then purge the new 4.0 kernel.
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Re: apt-get dist-upbrade on bork won't work. hot to fix

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Mon May 25, 2015 9:40 pm

^ Exactly. And that is the reason why we do not support installations in Virtualbox.

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