Some errors upgrading ubuntu

[Alex Maynard]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, E K wrote:

> check what version of x11-common comes with edgy (run dpkg -l | grep
> x11-common). Then run apt-get install x11-common-xxxx. After
> installing x11-common try apt-get upgrade again.
>

Thanks very much!  Unfortunately, I just gave up and installed 
the latest version from disc, but that at least that seemed to go fine.

Alex

> Good luck,
> EK
>
>
> --- Alex Maynard <maynarda-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I've been upgrading from ubuntu drapper to edgy. Two upgrades went
>> fine,
>> but the third hit some snags.  One way to fix it would be to
>> install from
>> disk, but this laptop has my only xp partition and although I don't
>> use it
>> often I'd rather not risk losing it. It also has some customization
>>
>> from emperor-linux, so I could lose features by a new install.
>> I've included the error messages below just in case any one has any
>>
>> suggestions. It sounds to me like I have some missing directories I
>> need
>> to create or some directories I need to empty, but it's not quite
>> clear
>> which ones.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> root at rhino:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get upgrade
>> 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:
>>    libxdmcp6: Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) but 7.0.0-0ubuntu45
>> is
>> installed
>>    xserver-xorg-core: Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) but
>> 7.0.0-0ubuntu45
>> is installed
>> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
>> root at rhino:/usr/X11R6/bin# apt-get -f install
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree... Done
>> Correcting dependencies... Done
>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>    x11-common
>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>    x11-common
>> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1064 not upgraded.
>> 80 not fully installed or removed.
>> Need to get 0B/291kB of archives.
>> After unpacking 418kB of additional disk space will be used.
>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>          LANGUAGE = "en",
>>          LC_ALL = (unset),
>>          LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>      are supported and installed on your system.
>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
>> directory
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory
>> Preconfiguring packages ...
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory
>> shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot
>> access
>> parent directories: No such file or directory
>> (Reading database ... 168920 files and directories currently
>> installed.)
>> Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu45 (using
>> .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb) ...
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>          LANGUAGE = "en",
>>          LC_ALL = (unset),
>>          LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>      are supported and installed on your system.
>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
>> directory
>> Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
>> dpkg: error processing
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb
>> (--unpack):
>>   trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package
>> empkernel26
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>          LANGUAGE = "en",
>>          LC_ALL = (unset),
>>          LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>      are supported and installed on your system.
>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or
>> directory
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>          LANGUAGE = "en",
>>          LC_ALL = (unset),
>>          LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>      are supported and installed on your system.
>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
>> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
>>          LANGUAGE = "en",
>>          LC_ALL = (unset),
>>          LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
>>      are supported and installed on your system.
>> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>   /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6.2_i386.deb
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>>
>>
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