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Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

From songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.
Date 2021-12-06 15:30 +0100
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A. F. Cano wrote:
>
> Something got really messed up during the upgrade.  There are broken
> dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all.
> Vim, for instance is unusable.
>
> I have tried all the dpkg/apt/apt-get commands to fix broken dependencies,
> broken packages, etc, and they all return without error now [1], but aptitude
> starts "resolving dependencies" and it soon uses up all the available RAM,
> then all the available swap and the system slows down (thrashing) and then
> freezes.

  my recommendation would be to start over and do a fresh install.
if there is any data you need to back up and haven't done that yet
i'd do that first.

  this will likely go a lot faster than trying to figure out what's
broken if you've done something really strange and don't have the
background to figure it out.


  songbird

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After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never  finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-06 00:20 +0100
  Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-12-06 15:30 +0100
  Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-09 19:50 +0100
    Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-10 00:50 +0100
      Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 10:10 +0100
        Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-11 21:00 +0100
          Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-12 09:10 +0100
            Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude  never finishes. "A. F. Cano" <afc54@comcast.net> - 2021-12-13 02:30 +0100

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