I finally got the nerve to upgrade my production server from Etch to Lenny (thanks Falko and others for answering questions here and the howto's). The upgrade appears to have worked perfectly - I followed the howto and answered keep my config changes. However, after the upgrade and reboot I ran 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude dist-upgrade' and instead of the expected up-to-date output got this: ===== server01:~> sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libsasl2 libssp0 The following NEW packages will be installed: db4.6-util{a} libc-client2007b{a} libcompress-raw-zlib-perl{a} liberror-perl{a} libio-compress-base-perl{a} libio-compress-zlib-perl{a} libio-socket-inet6-perl{a} libmail-spf-perl{a} libmime-tools-perl{a} libnetaddr-ip-perl{a} libperl5.10{a} libsnmp15{a} The following packages will be REMOVED: libarchive-tar-perl{a} php5-json{a} The following packages will be upgraded: amavisd-new cpp-4.1 g++-4.1 gcc-4.1 gcc-4.1-base libapache2-mod-php5 libaprutil1 libberkeleydb-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libconvert-uulib-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libdigest-sha1-perl libhtml-parser-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libmime-perl libnet-dns-perl librrds-perl libsasl2-2 libsasl2-dev libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-sql libsocket6-perl libstdc++6-4.1-dev libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libunix-syslog-perl perl perl-base perl-modules php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl razor sasl2-bin spamassassin The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: libsys-syslog-perl re2c spamc 51 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 30.7MB of archives. After unpacking 13.8MB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libsasl2: Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+etch1) but 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 is to be installed. libssp0: Depends: gcc-4.1-base (= 4.1.1-21) but 4.1.2-25 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: libsasl2 libssp0 Score is 184 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] ==== I have no idea what to do at this point? If I just say Y will it remove libsasl2 and libssp0 and remove and install the packages shown properly? Or am I supposed to manually remove those two packages and re-run dist-upgrade. Finally, why didn't it just do all this during the full upgrade I just did? Did something go wrong or not happen during the full upgrade or is upgrading a two or more part process and that's normal? Thanks again, as usual, for any help.
apt-get remove libsasl2 libssp0 apt-get install libsasl2 libssp0 he'll probably tell you the same crap, just install .. i've been upgrading production servers alot .. most of them throw errors during upgrading, but that's just because of crappy post install scripts .. f.e. if you start start upgrading when having an NFS mount, apt will stop when he wants to upgrade nfs-common and will give a strange error, in which you can't find the problem being nfs-common. so apt can be very annoying if it was my server i'd just remove the packages and reinstall them.
