Unable to install package ubuntu-xen-desktop (depends on libc6-xen) on Ubuntu Studio 7.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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glibc (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xen (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xen-3.1 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
xen-meta (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: libc6-xen
It is impossible to install ubuntu-xen-desktop on Ubuntu Studio 7.10
Please find the apt-get output below. First is the trial to install ubuntu-xen-desktop and then the failing dependency libc6-xen
#1 -- ubuntu-xen-desktop installation
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u@studio:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ubuntu-
E: Broken packages
#1 -- libc6-xen installation
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u@studio:~$ sudo apt-get install libc6-xen
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-xen: PreDepends: libc6 (= 2.6.1-1ubuntu9) but 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
Changed in glibc: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I can confirm this.
Here's the output from $ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop:
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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: xen-desktop: Depends: libc6-xen but it is not going to be installed
ubuntu-
E: Broken packages
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And here's the output from $ sudo apt-get install libc6-xen:
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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libc6-xen: PreDepends: libc6 (= 2.6.1-1ubuntu9) but 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
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Here's the output from $ sudo apt-get install libc6:
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Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
libc6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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And finally, here's my recent apt-get install activity from .bash_history. As you can see, I flailed around a while trying to find the right packages to install:
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sudo apt-get install xen-utils-common 2.6.19- 4-generic d-modules- xen
sudo apt-get install xen-hypervisor
sudo apt-get install xen-shell
sudo apt-get install xen-tools
sudo apt-get install xen-utils-3.1
sudo apt-get install xen-image-
sudo apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.1
sudo apt-get install linux-restricte
sudo apt-get install xen-ioemu-3.1
sudo apt-get install xen-ioemu
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop
sudo apt-get -f install
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I've managed to somewhat boot from the xen kernel, but X was broken, as was a lot of other stuff, I don't remember it all. I just rebooted into my old kernel (2.6.22-14) immediately.
My system:
Averatec 3715-EH1 laptop
Sempron 3800+ processor
512 MB RAM
Running Gutsy