apt-get dist-upgrade ends with error

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 1 Apr 2006 20:47:37 +0200
"Colin Brace" <cb at lim.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just attempted to upgrade from Breezy to Dapper by "apt-get
> dist-upgrade", and after around an hour and forty minutes the process
> terminated with an error message:
> 
> [...]
> Removing gnomemeeting ...
> gconftool-2: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4: undefined
> symbol: g_slice_alloc0
> dpkg: error processing gnomemeeting (--remove):
>   subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   gnomemeeting
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Not sure whether or not Dapper is now fully installed. Anyone have any
> suggestions as to how to proceed?

I've found on a dist-upgrade you sometimes need to run

sudo apt-get -f install

and then 

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

several times to clear up some errors. May not help in your case but it is
always worth trying.

HTH   :)

-- 
Peter