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I never had a RAID setup on my bubbas either, but you should be able to just reinstall the system partition without having to loose your data partition.

EDIT:
Sorry, that was a bit cryptic.
After you download the USB image from http://update.excito.net/install/latest/bubba-two/
you can edit the file bubba.cfg and thus control what it will do to your system.

I'd still backup your stuff just to be safe though.

copy the "/etc/" folder to a USB disk before you reinstall to make reinstalling nfs etc easier.

For aptitude to now which it can remove it needs to know which packages are packages that are importent for the User or the system. The problem is that aptitude has no knowledge of which packages that is importent on the Bubba since excito has not added that information to aptitude. Hence aptitude will think that everything that is not part of the standard Debian installation is packages that can be removed. I mean it is not as you have installed the Bubba specific packages with aptitude. I had exactly the same problem with my Bubba 2. So you can do two things to fix this. Either keep using apt-get which works realy fine in most cases. Aptitude can be better at dissolving very complex dependencies problem but as long as you do not modify your bubba to much that should newer happened. The other thing you can do is to tell Aptitude which packages that are important for the system. I did not fins that so easy to do but it is doable if you really really need to use aptitude.

I am pretty sure that you will have the same problem with aptitude after an reinstall so I think this is totally unnecessary when using apt-get instead is enough.

Cheeseboy wrote:If you had read the thread you would have known it was the first thing the OP did before even asking about his problem on this forum.
It was others (well, me) that suggested aptitude as a possible solution.

He did an apt-get upgrade and not an apt-get dist-upgrade. That is a huge difference.

Sorry Yes I was wrong he really did an dist-upgrade .

I guess I can blame the laser operation I did a little more that e week ago. My sight is still quite blurry and I have a hard time to read from the screen.

I still stick to that aptitude does not work out of the box on Bubba. You need to specify all the Bubba specific packages to it so it will not remove them. But it is relay strange that the dist-upgrade did not work. Especially when it did not give any good reason why. An reinstall might not be that bad idea any more. The other thing I can thing of is to see if apt-get has any flag so that it will be more verbose on why it does not want do the update.

I think it is best to ask the excito-crew for advice. They might still be able to help you out, perhaps using dpkg.

They managed to fix my bubba as well once or twice...

Martijn

I still stick to that aptitude does not work out of the box on Bubba

Nobody said it did. It was suggested as a last resort.
And with caution.

I've had no problems using aptitude and I've done loads of stuff with my B2. Unlike in Ubuntu, apt-get in Debain doesn't support auto-remove but aptitude does. So when I decide to remove a package that pulled in 25 dependencies when I installed it aptitude will get rid of them but apt-get won't.

Lets take the apt-get vs aptitude fight out of this thread.
No more comments about the benefits or deficits of either, please?

You can restore RAID on both the internal as well as external disk, but it is the /home directory that are mirrored.

All the best.