Bug#854041: me too, but not getting past "apt-get -f install"

[Michael Biebl]

Am 16.02.2017 um 10:32 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
> 
> I've tried upgrading two systems from jessie to stretch
> 
> The first one didn't experience this issue, the second one did.  Both
> systems had been upgraded through several versions of Debian over many
> years, they had not been clean installs of jessie.
> 
> I've tried
> 
>    dpkg --purge sysvinit
>    apt-get -f install
> 
> and so far "apt-get -f install" isn't getting past the issue, it fails
> with the same error so the system is now in limbo.
> 
> Any suggestions what should be attempted next?

I assume you made a backup from the before the dist-upgrade, right :-)

Please provide the /var/lib/dpkg/info/status file.
Maybe there is a chance that we can reproduce the issue this way.


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