Upgrade problem

[rapattack]

Hi is there a reason that this would happen?
apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
aptitude avahi-daemon bind9-host blinken dbus dnsutils eject hal indi k3b
kalzium kalzium-data kanagram kbruch kcontrol kdeaddons kdebase kdebase-bin
kdebase-kio-plugins kdeedu kdeedu-data kdenetwork kdepim kdesktop kdm keduca
kfind khangman khelpcenter kig kitchensync kiten klatin klettres
klettres-data kmplot konqueror konqueror-nsplugins kpercentage kstars
kstars-data ktouch kturtle kverbos kvoctrain kwifimanager kwordquiz
libblkid1 libgnokii3 librpcsecgss3 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules
linux-image-2.6-486 network-manager nfs-common noatun-plugins
policycoreutils poppler-utils ttf-dejavu wireless-tools xbase-clients xorg
xscreensaver xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-kbd xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint
xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740 xserver-xorg-video-i810
xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-newport xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv
xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga xserver-xorg-video-via
xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo xutils
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 105 not upgraded.

[coopstah13]

I think this is what happens when you edit your sources file and change to a new distribution.

Were you originally on etch but are trying to upgrade to lenny?

If you are and you changed the occurences of etch to lenny in the sources file then you need to run apt-get dist-upgrade first

[rapattack]

No I didn't want to do that. I was told to change some things in the sources.list and this has been happening since. I don't want to upgrade to lenny. This is the sources.list :
# deb Debian Multimedia Packages::Home etch main

deb Index of /debian etch main
deb-src Index of /debian etch main

deb Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main non-free
deb-src Debian -- Security Information etch/updates main non-free

deb Index of /debian unstable main contrib








deb Debian Multimedia Packages::Home etch main

[coopstah13]

deb Index of /debian unstable main contrib

This is your problem, remove or comment out this line

[rapattack]

Yes thanks that's it. I do get this error a lot though...before... I don't know what it is but it looks similar to the erro I get when opening vlc(video player):
Fetched 589kB in 1s (448kB/s)
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 147039 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xserver-xorg 1:7.1.0-16 (using .../xserver-xorg_1%3a7.1.0-19_all.deb) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg ...
Preparing to replace nfs-common 1:1.0.10-6 (using .../nfs-common_1%3a1.0.10-6+etch.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nfs-common ...
Setting up xserver-xorg (1:7.1.0-19) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
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 = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Setting up nfs-common (1:1.0.10-6+etch.1) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
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 = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.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 = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
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 = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.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 = (unset),
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Stopping NFS common utilities: statd.
Starting NFS common utilities: statd.

[coopstah13]

These are all warnings they are not errors, just means some of your locale settings aren't defined and its choosing the defaults subsequently.

[rapattack]

Sorry I don't know what that means... is that like the time/date settings? Because that has always been a hassle with debian getting it wrong. I don't know how many times I have noticed the wrong date right from when I was installing it. I have changed it and it keeps going to the wrong date/time. I have checked the bios and sometimes that is wrong too. I have changed the bios battery 3 or 4 times this year.... so annoying. I don't know if it ever makes a difference as the problem comes back. Should I just ignore it? Oh I even flushed or flashed the bios...he he I don't know because a friend told me to do it....long story(for a different problem) . I did this just before this install of Debian4. This is the 2nd install I have had on this machine/drive.

[coopstah13]

You can ignore it if it isn't causing you any problems, locale settings have to do with location, keyboard settings, language, etc. As long as it isn't causing you any problems I would just ignore it.

[rapattack]

OK thanks no it doesn't seem to be causing problems. I don't know as there are so many little niggly things going wrong and I never quite know if it is me being a beginner or not. Also that this didn't happen in the last install. I do know that things are set exactly the same as before ....MMMMmm actually maybe not as a friend who is the expert level did the install last time and I did the beginner dummuies install...ha ha. Thanks!