Debian

[Rafał Grzywacz]

Hello, I'm using a netgear readynas duo v2 nas server running linux debian
squeeze 6.0.3, when I try to install packages is E:... e.g.
# sudo apt-get install curl
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libc6'. Please see man 5
apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2).

Unfortunately I don't know what to do, plus I'll add that I'm using in the
resolv.conf file with the
nameserv 8.8.8.8

entry, and also in the sources.list file with the

deb [trusted=yes] http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian squeeze
main contrib non-free
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free
# proposed additions for a 6.0 point release
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib
non-free
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ unstable main non-free
/usr/share/keyrings/deb-multimedia-keyring.pgp yes
deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian sid main

As you can see I have problems that are not on my side, so please help me
because I would like to install packages. What can I do and how to do so
that I can install.

Thanks in advance

Rafal Grzywacz

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

Post by Rafał Grzywacz
Hello, I'm using a netgear readynas duo v2 nas server running linux debian
squeeze 6.0.3, when I try to install packages is E:... e.g.
# sudo apt-get install curl
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libc6'. Please see man 5
apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2).

This is happening because something it wants to install needs a newer
libc before it can be installed. It's essentially this problem:

https://superuser.com/questions/199582/apt-error-could-not-perform-immediate-configuration-on/457224#457224

However, the release you're running (Debian 6 squeeze) went into limited
lTS in 2014 and complete end of life in 2016. Packages for it don't
exist any more on the regular Debian mirrors and would have to be
obtained from archive.debian.net or a mirror of it.

Post by Rafał Grzywacz
the sources.list file with the
deb [trusted=yes] http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian squeeze
main contrib non-free

The above line appears to be using a mirror of archive.debian.net for
EOL packages but you've had to use trusted=yes because the key has
expired, so you no longer have strong assurance that you're installing
genuine Debian packages.

Post by Rafał Grzywacz
deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze-lts main contrib non-free
# proposed additions for a 6.0 point release
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze-proposed-updates main contrib
non-free

The above won't work at all as the files aren't there any longer.

Post by Rafał Grzywacz
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ unstable main non-free

This one is not Debian and using packages from here is a good way to
break even an otherwise supported system.

Post by Rafał Grzywacz
/usr/share/keyrings/deb-multimedia-keyring.pgp yes
deb http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian sid main

I dread to think why you also have a source for sid here. Mixing of sid
with the ten+ year old packages on the rest of your system is a really
really bad idea. Perhaps you only used it when squeeze was relatively
new, as sid is always sid.

Basically I wouldn't be looking at fixing this system, I would be
looking at reinstalling it or taking it out back where it goes to live
out the rest of its days on a farm.

Post by Rafał Grzywacz
As you can see I have problems that are not on my side, so please help me
because I would like to install packages. What can I do and how to do so
that I can install.

You can try to follow the advice in the superuser link about the apt
immediate-configure option, or try to upgrade libc first and alone, but
this system is so broken that to be honest anything you do may break it
further, and as it has no support whatsoever you'll just get to keep the
pieces.

This is a form of tech debt and now it's time to pay the interest.

Thanks,
Andy

[Michael Stone]

Post by Andy Smith
However, the release you're running (Debian 6 squeeze) went into limited
lTS in 2014 and complete end of life in 2016. Packages for it don't
exist any more on the regular Debian mirrors and would have to be
obtained from archive.debian.net or a mirror of it.

Worse than that, if this is the original netgear "firmware", I have no
idea how close to a normal debian system it ever was, what the actual
hardware is, or whether that hardware is supported by debian itself (vs
only with netgear modifications). A quick google suggests that the
netgear modifications are extensive enough that the device would no
longer have its original functionality, but I don't know if it would be
possible to turn it into a generic server rather than a "netgear duo
appliance".

As a general matter, to upgrade this it would be necessary to do an
upgrade to each intermediate release, so from squeeze to wheezy to
jessie to stretch to buster to bullseye to bookworm. Most of those are
long since out of support, though available via archive.debian.org. *If*
the underlying hardware works with a normal debian, this is possible
(though tedious) but there are some gotchas around things like
long-since-expired signatures which need to be manually overriden. I
would probably recommend not going down this route unless you have a
great deal of experience with debian on non-standard hardware. There may
be resources available from other netgear users which could help you
upgrade, but you'd need to search for those outside of debian itself
(maybe on netgear forums or such). If there were some recipie for a
fresh install vs a very long upgrade path, your goals would probably be
more achievable.

[Stefan Monnier]

Worse than that, if this is the original netgear "firmware", I have no idea
how close to a normal debian system it ever was, what the actual hardware
is, or whether that hardware is supported by debian itself (vs only with
netgear modifications). A quick google suggests that the netgear
modifications are extensive enough that the device would no longer have its
original functionality, but I don't know if it would be possible to turn it
into a generic server rather than a "netgear duo appliance".

At least OpenWRT seems to support this device, so there's a recent Linux
kernel which supports that hardware.


Stefan