weird update problems

[Scott Kitterman]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 19:20, John Dangler wrote:

> I agree.  No notification to the community at all, and leave it up to us
> to find out that something as critical as a kernel update is hosed up...
> Someone should get kicked pretty hard for pulling this...

Gee here's what happened when I tried to upgrade my test server today:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-image-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
  linux-server
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.8kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-server linux-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  linux-image-server: Depends: linux-image-2.6.17-11-server but it is not 
installable
E: Broken packages

So I stopped there.  Nothing hosed.  I'm not sure what anyone would tell me 
other than what apt already did.  Personally, I think if you're paying 
attention to what's going on, it's not that hard to figure out.

For those who don't care to pay attention, Canonical has support contracts...

Scott K