I forgot to present the problem of wine failure to launch also to the wine list. While my amd64 debian etch is in order, 32 bit debian etch has suffered much and is now in a state of semi-mess. Kernel booted is linux-image-2.6-15-1-k7: but #aptitude shows also a collection of kernels, partly broken: BA linux-image-2.6-486 BA linux-image-2.6-686 BA linux-image-2.6-686-smp iA linux-image-2.6-k7 BA linux-image-2.6-k7-smp i linux-image-2.6-15-1-k7 unusued refuse to uninstall: debian:/home/francesco# apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6-k7 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: linux-image-2.6-486: Depends: linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 (= 2.6.15-8) but it is not going to be installed linux-image-2.6-686: Depends: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 (= 2.6.15-8) but it is not going to be installed linux-image-2.6-686-smp: Depends: linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp (= 2.6.15-8) but it is not going to be installed linux-image-2.6-k7-smp: Depends: linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp (= 2.6.15-8) but it is not going to be installed nvidia-kernel-legacy-2.6-k7: Depends: linux-image-2.6-k7 but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). debian:/home/francesco# Also #apt-get -f install (in an attempt to install so that it can be removed later): debian:/home/francesco# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp Suggested packages: linux-doc-2.6.15 linux-source-2.6.15 lilo fdutils The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 linux-image-2.6.15-1-686-smp linux-image-2.6.15-1-k7-smp 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 12 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/63.0MB of archives. After unpacking 182MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Yes resulting in warning for each installation: You are attempting to install a kernel image (version 2.6.15-1-486) However, the │ │ directory /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-486 still exists. If this directory belongs to a │ │ previous linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 package, and if you have deselected some │ │ modules, or installed standalone modules packages, this could be bad. However, if │ │ this directory exists because you are also installing some stand alone modules │ │ right now, and they got unpacked before I did, then this is pretty benign. │ │ Unfortunately, I can not tell the difference. │ │ │ │ If /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-486 belongs to a old install of linux-image-2.6.15-1-486, │ │ then this is your last chance to abort the installation of this kernel image │ │ (nothing has been changed yet). │ │ │ │ If this directory is because of stand alone modules being installed right now, or │ │ if it does belong to an older linux-image-2.6.15-1-486 package but you know what │ │ you are doing, and if you feel that this image should be installed despite this │ │ anomaly, Please answer n to the question. │ │ │ │ Otherwise, I suggest you move /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-486 out of the way, perhaps to │ │ /lib/modules/2.6.15-1-486.old or something, and then try re-installing this image. │ │ │ │ Stop install since the kernel-image is already installed? So that I stopped installing. Something (probably libwine) was dependent of the 686 kernel and now wine exits with error 127 (a known event that I remedied in the past by removing libwine and reinstalling it: now any attempt at removing libwine results in the problems above of broken packages. What means "A" that appears for some packages on aptitude? Should a remedy be conceivable from this messing desription, thank you francesco pietra _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
