Do I need to recompile my kernel ?

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mark · #1 Post by **mark** » 2004-10-25 17:35

I just wanted to install some stuff and I run in to the following trouble.
Does some know how to solve this?

mark@sade:~$ su
Password:
sade:/home/mark# apt-get install xmule
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.2.ds1-18) but 2.3.2.ds1-17 is to be installed locales: Depends: glibc-2.3.2.ds1-18
xmule: Depends: libwxgtk2.4 (>= 2.4.2.6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
sade:/home/mark# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6
Suggested packages:
glibc-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 142 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/4921kB of archives.
After unpacking 12.3kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 88693 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2.ds1-17 (using .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_i386.deb) ...
WARNING: Your kernel version indicates a revision number
of 255 or greater. Glibc has a number of built in
assumptions that this revision number is less than 255.
If you've built your own kernel, please make sure that any
custom version numbers are appended to the upstream
kernel number with a dash or some other delimiter.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-18_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
sade:/home/mark#

Linux sade 2.6.814-10-2004 #1 Thu Oct 14 15:16:59 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

kryptos · #2 Post by **kryptos** » 2004-10-25 18:03

What are you running? Woody, Sarge or Sid? Since it might have something to do with what your kernel needs and what the package needed.

mark · #3 Post by **mark** » 2004-10-25 18:07

I'm running unstable on this system.

AdrianTM · #4 Post by **AdrianTM** » 2004-10-25 21:57

post also here the result of "uname -a"

kryptos · #5 Post by **kryptos** » 2004-10-26 11:01

AdrianTM wrote:post also here the result of "uname -a"

Linux sade 2.6.814-10-2004 #1 Thu Oct 14 15:16:59 CEST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Guest · #6 Post by **Guest** » 2004-10-26 13:28

OK I don't know much about kernel versions I hope somebody who knows better jumps in... anyway "2.6.814-10-2004" doesn't look ok to me, that's why you get that error, it should look like 2.6.8-14-10-2004 or 2.6.8_14...

You can probably recompile and make it look like this, probably this is the best option or you can try to turn off the checks (if possible) in the scripts that you execute.

Maurice · #7 Post by **Maurice** » 2004-10-26 19:09

Since you are running unstable and you've probably used an original Debian kernel image, the problem will be running unstable.

When the error is caused by your kernel, apt another kernel version, reboot into that kernel and try again.

When the error is caused by just running unstable, wait for a few days and try again. Probably the error is corrected by then.

/edit: typo