server keeps updating openjdk

[Tapas Mishra]

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Michael Zoet <Michael.Zoet at zoet.de> wrote:
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> Am Di, 8.02.2011, 13:39 schrieb Tapas Mishra:
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>>> (2) What did you do to get into this situation?
>> I do an aptitude safe-upgrade (which should just install the latest
>> packages of same release I do not want to change version of OS)
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> I think you misunderstood the use of safe-upgrade! A normal aptitude (or
> apt-get or synaptic or dselect or what ever package management tool you
> use) will NEVER (really NEVER) install a new major Ubuntu Version by
> itself! That is something you have to trigger. Everytime you want to
> update to a major you (or a script) has to change the sources.list for
> that!
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> I think in your case by using the safe-upgrade option there where some
> package dependency problems. You should have tried the full-upgrade
> option! But now with a messed up kernel package it is a little bit
> difficult to clean it up.
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> In your case I would download the kernel and dbus package manually and
> install it with "dpkg -i <PATH_TOPACKAGE> --force-XYZ>". There are various
> force options to force the package installation when an error occurred.
> But be aware that this can be very dangerous to your system! Read the
> manpage of dpkg carefully, especially the force options.
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> Hope this helps,
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> Michael
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Michael thanks for your message.I do not want to do any more
experiment on my system.
I do have an old backup with all old copies which is about 15-20 days
old with an old kernel.
Right now every thing on my server is working perfectly fine.So I am
taking a strong backup right now.

Though right now every thing is working very fine.So I do not have any
plans of any more upgrades.
 Will restoring the old backup make any sense for my case or should I
leave it at this stage.