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Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly

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On 2021-02-12 at 06:02, thahn01@t-online.de wrote:

> Hello,
> I have installed 10.7 and then
> apt upgrade
> without any problems.
> However the following
> apt dist-upgrade
> failed badly and cannot be repaired with
> apt --fix-broken install
>  
> Correcting dependencies... failed.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> ffmpeg : Depends: libavcodec58 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1)
> Depends: libavformat58 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1) but 7:4.3.1-8 is installed
> Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1) but 7:4.3.1-8 is installed
> Depends: libswresample3 (= 7:4.1.6-1~deb10u1) but 7:4.3.1-8 is installed
> gimp : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but 2.28-10 is installed
> libaa1 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but 2.28-10 is installed
> ...
>  
> Any advice?

What do the following commands give you?

$ apt-cache policy ffmpeg libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56
libswresample3 libc6

$ apt-mark showhold

Also, do you have any package pins in /etc/apt/preferences or
/etc/apt/preferences.d/* ?


That said: dist-upgrade against sid is frequently a bad idea, and I am
not at all surprised that you ran into issues. The usual comment about
running sid is that "if anything breaks, you get to keep the pieces".

The best recommendation as I understand matters is to have sources.list
entries for both testing and sid, use /etc/apt/preferences to pin sid at
a priority which will never be chosen by default, and then install items
from sid selectively as needed.

If this is a production system rather than primarily a test machine, you
might be best served to reinstall, and this time not try to dist-upgrade
against sid en masse.

For myself, I have sources.list entries for stable and testing, and in
the rare case that I need something from sid, modify sources.list long
enough to 'apt-get update ; apt-get install [packagename]', then modify
sources.list to its previous state and run 'apt-get update' again.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.         -- George Bernard Shaw

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dist-upgrade from buster fails badly "thahn01@t-online.de" <thahn01@t-online.de> - 2021-02-12 12:10 +0100
  Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-12 12:40 +0100
    AW: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly "thahn01@t-online.de" <thahn01@t-online.de> - 2021-02-12 13:40 +0100
      Re: AW: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly pioruns2019 <pioruns2019@gmx.com> - 2021-02-12 14:00 +0100
        Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2021-02-12 14:10 +0100
        Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-12 14:10 +0100
          Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly pioruns2019 <pioruns2019@gmx.com> - 2021-02-12 14:40 +0100
          Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-02-12 15:10 +0100
      Re: AW: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly pioruns2020 <pioruns2020@gmx.com> - 2021-02-12 14:10 +0100
  Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-02-12 14:00 +0100
  Re: dist-upgrade from buster fails badly Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-12 14:00 +0100

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