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Re: ubuntu upgrade breaks openafs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Mon Oct 20 17:06:57 2008
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:58:37 -0400
To: Jerry Richard <jdrich@mit.edu>
Hi.
This upgrade should work now; our procedure for updating the
openafs modules package automatically had failed and stopped
running, but that has been corrected, and the required updated
packages should be available now.
Thank you for reporting this.
Bob
On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jerry Richard wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I just reinstalled ubuntu 8.04, and tried to install the athena10
> package based on the installation instructions online. It seems the
> openafs-modules-generic has an unmet dependency:
>
> ::
>
> Installing OpenAFS kernel metapackage
> 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:
> openafs-modules-generic: Depends: linux-image-generic (=
> 2.6.24.19.21)
> but 2.6.24.21.23 is to be installed
>
> ::
>
>
> That upgrade (2.6.24.21.23) was a standard upgrade on an 8.04 install,
> but now it seems openafs won't install. Is this a bug, or is there
> some
> workaround?
>
> Thanks!
> Jerry
>
