potato to sid upgrade error 32 broken pipe

[nick lidakis]

Had an extra hard drive lying around, decided to give sid a twirl.
Installed minimal potato without X. Changed sources to point to
unstable. Typed apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade as usual. Halfway
thru upgrade I get:

-----------
90 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 toremove and 3 not upgraded.

3 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/19.5MB of archives. After unpacking 13.0MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
E: Failure running sript /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
sid:~#

Nevere ran into an error of this type. Should have I upgraded to woody
first, then unstable? Any suggestions appreciated.

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[Michael B. Taylor]

> -----------
> 90 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 toremove and 3 not upgraded.
>
> 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/19.5MB of archives. After unpacking 13.0MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
> E: Failure running sript /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
> sid:~#
>
>

It is not finding some perl modules that it needs. The required packages are
probably in your cache. I suggest trying to manually install perl packages till
you get one to configure (dpkg -i someperlpack.deb). Then get the others. Once
you have a complete perl installation, try apt again.

Mike

[Sebastiaan]

> -----------
> 90 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 toremove and 3 not upgraded.
>
> 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/19.5MB of archives. After unpacking 13.0MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
> E: Failure running sript /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
> sid:~#
>
>
> Nevere ran into an error of this type. Should have I upgraded to woody
> first, then unstable? Any suggestions appreciated.
>

Hello,

I had these problems with perl when upgrading to woody. Just run apt-get
dist-upgrade and apt-get -f install until both commands have finished (I
had to do this over 20 times before my upgrade was complete!).

Greetz,
Sebastiaan

[Shriram Shrikumar]

I had the same problem while doing exactly the same thing last week.
Unfortunately, cant remember exactly how it was solved. There is a
package in /var/cache/apt/archives that needs to installed manually
using dpkg. I think it was a libc package or a db2 something.

you can just do

dpkg -i <filename.deb>

sorry about the vagueness of the package names - it was 2am.

Hope this helps

Shri

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[John Galt]

This is a problem alright. You may want to get debian-testing in on this,
as a smooth potato -> woody transition is getting more vital by the day.
When woody freezes, there MUST be a smooth upgrade path from potato

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Sebastiaan wrote:

>> -----------
>> 90 packages upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 toremove and 3 not upgraded.
>>
>> 3 packages not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 0B/19.5MB of archives. After unpacking 13.0MB will be used.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>> perl: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.3: cannot open
>> shared object file: No such file or directory
>> E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
>> E: Failure running sript /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
>> sid:~#
>>
>>
>> Nevere ran into an error of this type. Should have I upgraded to woody
>> first, then unstable? Any suggestions appreciated.
>>
>Hello,
>
>I had these problems with perl when upgrading to woody. Just run apt-get
>dist-upgrade and apt-get -f install until both commands have finished (I
>had to do this over 20 times before my upgrade was complete!).
>
>Greetz,
>Sebastiaan
>
>
>
>

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