Latest upstart update unresolvable dependency

**kiddykoff** · February 24th, 2011

acroread
android-notifier-desktop
build-essential
comerr-dev
g++
g++-4.4
google-talkplugin
googleearth
ia32-libs
krb5-multidev
lib32asound2
lib32bz2-1.0
libgcc1
lib32ncurses5
lib32nss-mdns
lib32stdc++6
lib32v4l-0
lib32z1
libbluetooth-dev
libc6-dev
libc6-i386
libcups2-dev
libcupsimage2-dev
libexif-dev
libexpat1-dev
libfontconfig1-dev
libfreetype6-dev
libgcrypt11-dev
libglib2.0-dev
libgnutls-dev
libgphoto2-2-dev
libjpeg62-dev
libkrb5-dev
libmng-dev
libpng12-dev
libqt3-mt-dev
libsane-dev
libsnmp-dev
libssl-dev
libstdc++6-4.4-dev
libtiff4-dev
libtool
libusb-dev
libxft-dev
lsb-build-cc3
lsb-build-desktop3
nspluginwrapper
nvidia-current
picasa
python-dev
python2.6-dev
skype
wine1.2
zlib1g-dev

these items are breaking when i try to force the upgrade of libc6.

**Bob63** · February 24th, 2011

@kiddykoff,
That's very strange; I have a lot of the same things installed (meaning development libraries), but didn't have to go through all that when libc6 upgraded.

Otherwise, you system is up-to-date?

**kiddykoff** · February 24th, 2011

i just ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and mysteriously there were some more updates found. (14)

upstart is still being held back.

**Bob63** · February 24th, 2011

upstart will continue to be held back until you/we get your libc6 issue figured out.

**mlsquad** · February 25th, 2011

I'm in the same boat. upstart is being held back. Synaptic shows libc6 as being 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7, while upstart is needing 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.8. I tried switching the mirror from "Server for United States" to "Main server" and did an update, but libc6 is still at 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.7. I tried doing a reinstall of libc6 as well, and that didn't do anything. Any thoughts on what I need to do to get libc6 up to date, so that upstart can upgrade?

**Bob63** · February 25th, 2011

@kiddykoff & mlsquad,
I'm curious as to how your software sources are configured. My system (which is currently experiencing no difficulty), has the following selected:
Main
Upstream
Imported
Backported
Unstable

While I am using Mint 10, it is a Ubuntu Maverick variation. Check your sources and see if setting them similar to this and refreshing helps (exact namess may vary in Maverick).

My thinking is that the patched library may not be in the Main repo yet.

**mlsquad** · February 25th, 2011

Originally Posted by Bob63

@kiddykoff & mlsquad,
I'm curious as to how your software sources are configured. My system (which is currently experiencing no difficulty), has the following selected:
Main
Upstream
Imported
Backported
Unstable

While I am using Mint 10, it is a Ubuntu Maverick variation. Check your sources and see if setting them similar to this and refreshing helps.

In Software Source, in the Ubuntu Software tab I have the following selected:
main
universe
restricted
multiverse

In the Updates tab I have
lucid-security
lucid-updates
lucid-proposed

**Bob63** · February 25th, 2011

It's been a while since I used standard Ubuntu; is there a backported? Based on my reading with other bug reports, sometimes the fixes are applied to the the development version (Natty in this case) first then backported.

**Taniquetil** · February 25th, 2011

I was still having a blocked upstart and just solved the problem by deleting a stray "/etc/apt/preferences" file. Seems like I created this some time ago to get something from the "proposed" repository, and now it messed up priorities between security and updates.