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Boot method: netinstall-virtualmachine
Image version: debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: <Date and time of the install>
Machine: i7-6700-non-k
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>
Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Initial boot: [ ]
Detect network card: [ ]
Configure network: [ ]
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Load installer modules: [ ]
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Overall install: [ ]
Comments/Problems:
<Dear maam / sir,
I have just reviewed ~
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html
.. and I don't know that it is appropriate.
Allow me to explain.
I have a copy of Debian in a virtualbox, on a machine running Mint as the host.
I have converted to sid, so my sources.list looks like ~
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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid main
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~ I then go sudo apt dist-upgrade, and I get sid, and roughly 1 GB of left-over files, and apt encourages me to remove them by ~
sudo apt autoremove
~ all perfectly normal.
What happens next is I can't reboot, I get a TTY.
I can force a startx, but many of my Mate packages are gone.
So an effort to manually reinstall mate, results in a dependency error, the version of mate to be installed requires an earlier version of python and you can't install that...
I have made a clone of that install before I ran the autoremove and tried various fixes but so far I have been stumped.
As long as I don't run the autoremove I have a perfectly functional sid + Mate, but there's about a GB of stuff I should be able to autoremove, and I can't...
Sorry this doesn't comply with your format request, but in the circumstances, I think an effort to make it fit would simply confuse the problem.
Yours respectfully, Mike Thompson.
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