broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/25/07, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>
> >> On 10/23/2007 04:03 PM, James Takac wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I think my distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 may have gone awry.
> >> > During the upgrade it had frozen during the installing (after
> updating
> >> > software channels) and was stuck there for over 8 hours. No cancel
> >> > button of course so I had to kill the process. When trying to restart
> I
> >> > get a list of updates for 7.10 but am then told to sudo dpkg
> >> > --configure -a to fix things. However this to hangs with "setting up
> >> > cfs (1.4.1-18)" and never gets any further. Is it possible to fix
> this
> >> > or am I likely better off downloading the install disk and going from
> >> > there?
> >> >
>
> I had a similar problem.  slocate failed (iirc, this has _often_ failed
> for
> the simple reason that the prerm script _can't_ be successful - I tried to
> submit the bug report from the button, but KDE was too messed up to do
> anything, at that point).  The message told me that it wouldn't prevent
> completion of the upgrade.  Wrong!  It seems that once dpkg fails, nothing
> works.
>
> So, "dpkg --configure -a" worked to a point.  Then I purged and
> reinstalled
> slocate (in your case, cfs - use "dpkg --force-all --purge cfs" so that it
> doesn't remove anything else), then "sudo aptitude dist-upgrade"
> (repeatedly) to finish it.
> --
> derek
>
>
> Hi Derek



K, tried that. once I reach sudo aptitude dist-grade I end up with 111
connection refused as it cycles through a number  of ipś

James
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