Breezy upgrade disaster

[Derek Broughton]

Alex Mandel wrote:

> bastill at adam.com.au wrote:
>> Quoting 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>,
>> '@wailuku.xlogicgroup.com:
>> 
>>> Can you get a terminal session going. If so try this:
>>> sudo apt-get update
>>> -(to make sure that the sources are upgraded)-
>>> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>> 
>> OK - did that, and it DID seem to help.
>> Only 4 issues reported:
>> Postfix not configured, hence niether were mailx, mutt or LSB-core.
>> 
> I had something similar, it turned out my uprade didn't finish.
> I ended up changing my sources to a mirror since it wasn't retrieving
> some packages and then using a -f:
> sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
> 
> After that X started working for me again and I used Synaptic to
> unistall Postfix which then elimnated all those messages you mentioned.

Any time you do a massive upgrade, repeat it.  Occasionally, even apt gets
confused, and can not manage to get all dependencies straight.  So you do
dist-upgrade until it stops complaining :-)
-- 
derek