Problems with LMDE

[harryhydro]

After the disaster of trying to update to Ubuntu 11.04 and the fact I have Mint running fine on a netbook, I decided to go to LMDE and see what running Debian was like....

Downloaded the latest version last night, burned a DVD this morning and installed.

First thing, I went to update manager and found 895 updates. Really !!?? So I click "Install Updates" and get the window "Fix broken packages first." On a New Install !!?? REALLY ???????
Well, I go to Synaptic and click "Fix Broken Packages." Back to update - no help - still broken packages msg.

So I try to do a "Refresh" and it cannot find several things on "packages.linuxmint.com/dists/debian/" - either it doesn't see the item or the item is non-existent.

I thought I was getting away from this crap by leaving Ubuntu.....

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[willie42]

When I had this problem I went into the update manager and updated them one level at a time and it works that way.

[zerozero]

hi harry
the issue with fix broken packages occurs because MintUpdate is not designed to LMDE, was a port from the Ubuntu versions of Mint

if you want to update your system properly open a terminal and

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[loukoumas]

if you want to use mint-update in LMDE tick all the five levels of upgrade and everything works fine!

[craig10x]

Don't expect LMDE to be better then running ubuntu...you will probably have far less problems with an ubuntu based distro then running LMDE...it gets breakages and you have to be prepared for lots of playing and tinkering...and sometimes breakages take a long time to get fixes for...debian isn't always that fast about bug fixes...You will have a far more stable system with an ubuntu base then debian testing such as in LMDE...

Sorry to sound discouraging but i have done both and i am back to mint main edition now...

[asymmetros]

I am using Linux for about a year now and Mint Debian editions exclusively from September. I have not faced a real problem yet with my basic installation. Of course, i am upgrading always with the commands mentioned before by zerozero.
Of course, i am trying to be carefull, seeing what is gonna to be upgraded each time and taking notes if i learn something new.

ps: the best choice for anyone counts stability upon everything else, is to download Janaury's LMDE, install it, change the sources to stable and THEN perform an update/upgrade

[TBABill]

Yes it's way over the top to have so many updates. It's well past time for a new iso from the Mint team for LMDE. The current iso is still based on Squeeze so you are installing it from when Squeeze was testing, then doing a full upgrade to Wheezy. There is value in getting the December iso (64 bit) if you WANT to base on stable instead of testing, but to have that still the default with such a huge number of updates is something that needs current consideration for updating just to save users from putting so much strain on servers, their own broadband limits (if they have any), etc.

I would recommend just using terminal to update instead of MintUpdate. You can check all 5 levels and be fine, or I believe that to be the case, but using the terminal to update is simple and pulls in all dependencies without issue.

[kadm]

if you want to update your system properly open a terminal and

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I've tried this after getting broken packages from an update to pack 4 who went wrong. This is the end of the output.

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Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gimp : Depends: libgimp2.0 (>= 2.6.12) but 2.6.11-3+b1 is installed
        Depends: gimp-data (>= 2.6.12) but 2.6.11-3 is installed
 libreoffice : Depends: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:3.4.5~) but 1:3.3.3-4 is installed
 libreoffice-base : Depends: libreoffice-java-common (>= 1:3.4.5~) but 1:3.3.3-4 is installed
 libreoffice-core : Depends: librdf0 (>= 1.0.15) but 1.0.13-3 is installed
 mintmenu : Depends: python-mate-menu but it is not installed
            Depends: python-mate-desktop but it is not installed
            Depends: python-corba but it is not installed
            Depends: python-mate but it is not installed
 python-aptdaemon : Depends: python-defer but it is not installed
 python-uno : Depends: libpython2.7 (>= 2.7) but it is not installed
 python-vte : Depends: libvte-common (= 1:0.28.2-4) but 1:0.28.1-2 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Of course I went for the apt-get -f install and after asking permission to download and install like 30MB, start outputting this:

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Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-22) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K01vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K01changemac' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'K08vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'changemac' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: There is a loop between service rmnologin and mountnfs if started
insserv:  loop involving service mountnfs at depth 7
insserv:  loop involving service portmap at depth 6
insserv: There is a loop between service rmnologin and mountall if started
insserv:  loop involving service mountall at depth 4
insserv:  loop involving service checkfs at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service mountnfs-bootclean at depth 9
insserv:  loop involving service networking at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service alsa-utils at depth 11
insserv: There is a loop between service rmnologin and checkroot if started
insserv:  loop involving service checkroot at depth 3
insserv:  loop involving service hdparm at depth 2
insserv:  loop involving service cryptdisks-early at depth 5
insserv: There is a loop between service rmnologin and checkroot if started
insserv:  loop involving service hostname at depth 4
insserv: There is a loop between service rmnologin and ifupdown-clean if started
insserv:  loop involving service ifupdown-clean at depth 6
insserv:  loop involving service module-init-tools at depth 6
insserv: There is a loop at service vmware-USBArbitrator if started
insserv:  loop involving service kbd at depth 10
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
         (...)[i] <----------- a lot more like this[/i]
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
insserv: exiting now without changing boot order!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
dpkg: error processing initscripts (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Errors were encountered while processing:
 initscripts
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have no clue on how to fix this update, other than reinstalling. Synaptic also exits with a "E: initscripts: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1" message while trying to fix broken packages...

[zerozero]

kadm,
as i see it, you have here 2 issues:
- one with the update/upgrade itself, and i say this because those v. don't match with my system

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zerozero@zerozero ~ $ apt-cache policy gimp-data libgimp2.0 librdf0
librdf0:
  Installed: 1.0.15-1
  Candidate: 1.0.15-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.15-1 0
        500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libgimp2.0:
  Installed: 2.6.12-1+b1
  Candidate: 2.6.12-1+b1
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.12-1+b1 0
        500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gimp-data:
  Installed: 2.6.12-1
  Candidate: 2.6.12-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.12-1 0
        500 http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
zerozero@zerozero ~ $ 

are you sure that the update was clean (without any error?)
post the out of

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apt update

- the second one is with vmware, and i already saw that error here (look for the post by lmdeman, his fix might help you)

[kadm]

Awesome, uninstalling VMWare unblocked the update and I could fix the broken packages with apt-get -f install and then apt-get update & apt-get upgrade, basically lmdeman's suggestion.
I have to reinstall vmware though, but I'm pretty sure to recover the state as the disk images and config folder are still at my /home.
A big thank you.