How to solve apt-get upgrade problem

[sweta]

After gonna throug instruction located on our group web site http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vi...-security.html I run into following problem:

First I had typed the commands:

To configure mirrors

apt-setup

To build update lists

apt-get update

Get upgrade but don't install it (this is done so if some problem comes my system won't get in any trouble)

apt-get -d upgrade

Following command run it to following error:

apt-get  upgrade

Error

E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often
bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak
option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs

Only use following commands if you got above error else forget it

I searched on net and no solution found, so I decided to go on myself. Only way to solve this problem was to remove e2fsprogs and reinstall it so here is what I did (do't reboot system till you have all update:

1)

apt-get remove  e2fsprogs

Confirm you wanna remove it; it will remove all stuff and automatically upgrade glibc to latest version.

2)
As soon as it returns to prompt reinstall e2fsprogs

apt-get install e2fsprogs

3)
Since e2fsprogs is so crtical package it removed update-rc.d and runleve command. Which result into following error (and you can't install any package via apt-get)
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
However when you type above command it will report that update-rc.d command not found in PATH. So I just created soft link to it:

cp /bin/false /tmp
cd /tmp
ln -s false  update-rc.d
export PATH=$PATH:/tmp

4)
So next task is to get install update-rc.d which is part of file-rc package.

apt-get install file-rc

Some script still reports following error:

Bug#238546: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d: line 1:
/sbin/runlevel: No such file or directory

Above command will fix that too...

5) Install init/telinit command removed by upgrade:

 apt-get install sysvinit

6) Done. You can now reboot system safely.

Very helpful instructions, saved me from a reinstall.

same here...thanks alot for the walkthrough!

[frans]

Also thanks, it worked fine. Only, i.a. directory /etc/rc2.d disappeared (which does not really matter to me, while other people may re-create original symlinks there).