Same problem here

I solved the problem of dist-upgrade failing by disabling the extras-devel repository. Now, "apt-get dist-upgrade" says, "0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded." Only I still have version 10.2010.19-1.002 (PR1.2).

upgraded PR1.2 to PR1.3 using apt-get dist-upgrade. updated 1013 packages but system->settings->about still shows 10.2010.19-1.
and now dist-upgrade also fails with unmet dependencies of sysvinit-utils or busybox. still haven't found clean solution yet.
also had settings->about problem when dist-upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2. everything went fine, olny about strings were not updated.

I flashed with PR 1.3, but after restoring the backup, including applications, The problem (dist-upgrade and sysvinit-utils) returned, which hinted about a problem with the the sources I had configured.

So flashed again to PR1.3, but this time excluded applications during restore. Changed /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list to the content I've got from a friend who dist-upgraded without a problem::

deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/apps/ ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/mr0 ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle1.2/ovi/ ./
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle-1.3 free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing/ fremantle free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/ fremantle free non-free
deb http://deb.opera.com/maemo fremantle-1.3 non-free
deb http://moff.mozilla.com/latest-beta/maemo/en-US/ fremantle release


Everything is working as it should.

the problem is...
dist-upgrade trys to install the new busybox.
but the dependencies are not available for the n900

its just a matter of time

and by the way!

wo need it?




all works fine :P



Greetz
Erazor

lazy as i am i don't check but ask:
did you remove the old sources - this is the ones from 1.2 from your sources list??

this is my sources list after the (working) upgrade
---
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/apps/ ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/mr0 ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle1.2/ovi/ ./
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle-1.3 free non-free
--
should be free of any manual changes.
after the update i didn't look at it up to now. take it, the 1.2 of the ovi is ok.
btw why are you running distupgrade anyways?

uh and i do not suggest to edit it for it is via hildon connected to some xml that fetches values from somewhere else and i didn't check up to now where that comes from(that is can't say how they affect rsp. disturb each other though i observed hildon writes to /its/ sources list).

well hello everyone... i'm new to both my new nokia n900 and ofcourse to the OS bt well sumhw i began to wonder that as we all knw that the x terminal in it is kinda wich is called "BusyBox" is of quite an older version(v1.10.2)...and nt to mention its limitation of commands... :P so i did sum googling if i can actually upgrade the BusyBox to push its limit .... so i came over this site...

http://maemo-experience.blogspot.com...-for-n900.html

please check it out and CAN ANYONE SUGGEST ME IF IT WILL B SAFE well technically :P ! has anyone done it yet ???

--
chsh user
->bash
--
simple...
and busybox is not limited but overloaded.

I am facing this exact same problem. Did anybody ever solve it without reflashing the device?

Additionally the PreDepends problem mentioned in the title of this thread turned up on my N900 as well. I never had this before last week.