[PlanetCCRMA] FC1 -> FC3 APT Segfault

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 11 November 2005 12:41, Ken Smith wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if someone can give me some clues. I did an upgrade of a
> CCRMA FC1 system to FC3 yesterday. Part way through, the install borked
> because it couldn't read CD 2. The CD is OK - it turned out to be the CD
> drive in the machine. It rebooted into the 2.6.9 kernel and I repeated
> the upgrade from .iso's on the hard disk and it seemed to go OK.
>
> BUT.... apt-get dist-upgrade dowloads the updates and then segfaults.
> I'm a bit stuck now. I have re-upgraded apt to the FC3 one. I guess
> something is hosed because of the aborted upgrade.
>
> Any ideas on what to do next?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ken

Hi Ken. When I put FC3 as a fresh install on the machine a few weeks ago I had 
a similar problem. There are a lot of updates for FC3, about 800MB. Running 
apt-get dist-upgrade resulted in, a "couldn't complete transaction". But 
doing the upgrade in 2 stages worked ok. Apt-get update, then apt-get 
upgrade, and when that has finished, apt-get dist-upgrade. Also it may be 
worth looking in 
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial . Check that the partial directory is empty. 
If not. Delete anthing in it. DONT trash the lock file in the archives 
directory. All the best. Nigel.
>
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