hardy->intrepid upgrade fails because of sysvinit pre-depends loop

[cariboo]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Sysvutils tried to upgrade and the upgrade wasn't completed

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jun 3 22:58:05 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed

NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: update-manager 1:0.91.2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.91.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the error message:

E:This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package sysvutils 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 sysvutils

I can reproduce this in a chroot.

[Christian Schürer-Waldheim (quincunx)]

You can bypass this problem by issuing the following command:

sudo aptitude -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=true dist-upgrade

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sysvinit - 2.86.ds1-56ubuntu3

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sysvinit (2.86.ds1-56ubuntu3) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Let sysvinit-utils only replace the old sysvutils, do not conflict to it.
    This is a less clean way to do the transition than with a proper
    Conflicts/Replaces, but the latter induces a Pre-Depends/Conflicts loop
    which is unresolvable. (LP: #237276)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:44:44 +0200