problem with upgrade from 2.5 to 2.6

[aigua]

Hi,

I recently tried upgrading my b3. I tried the web upgrade first, but it didn't look like it worked. So next I tried:

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apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

Then I got stuck with the bubba-album dbconfig problem. I know it was discussed here before, but nothing I found in the forum (the empty password in particular) helped.

It did look like the upgrade script is trying to upgrade the "bubba-album" database, while MySQL only had "album".

(Did the script assume an upgrade to some intermediate version which I missed?)

Anyway, I copied the database "album" to "bubba-album", and it looked like I was able to push the upgrade script a little bit further ahead. Now the website says:

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Current version: 2.6.0.2
Detailed information
Package name	Package version
bubba	2.6.0.2
bubba-album	2.6
bubba-backend	2.6+0~1372243587.19+staging~1.gbp2e15c6
bubba-frontend	2.6.0.3
bubba3-kernel	1:2.6.39.4-11
filetransferdaemon	0.55
logitechmediaserver	7.7.2.dfsg1-1

However, I am still getting the following error from dist-upgrade. Can anyone help, please?

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root@b3:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up libicu44 (4.4.1-8) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute installed post-installation script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/libicu44.postinst): Exec format error
dpkg: error processing libicu44 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gdisk:
 gdisk depends on libicu44 (>= 4.4.1-1); however:
  Package libicu44 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gdisk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5-intl:
 php5-intl depends on libicu44 (>= 4.4.1-1); however:
  Package libicu44 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing php5-intl (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bubba-frontend:
 bubba-frontend depends on php5-intl; however:
  Package php5-intl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bubba-frontend (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: depenconfigured to not write apport reports
                                                 configured to not write apport reports
                                                                                       configured to not write apport reports
                                                                                                                             configured to not write apport reports
                                                                                                                                                                   configured to not write apport reports
                                                                                                                                                                                                         configured to not write apport reports
                        dency problems prevent configuration of bubba:
 bubba depends on bubba-frontend; however:
  Package bubba-frontend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bubba (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bubba-backend:
 bubba-backend depends on bubba; however:
  Package bubba is not configured yet.
 bubba-backend depends on gdisk; however:
  Package gdisk is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bubba-backend (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libicu44
 gdisk
 php5-intl
 bubba-frontend
 bubba
 bubba-backend
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@b3:~# 

For what it's worth: I love the b3 hardware, but I never ended up using much of its media features. I am using it as a general-purpose home linux server and backup instead. Is there a non-invasive way to just replace custom b3 software with a plain debian linux? Also, is it reversible?

In particular, can I run linux kernel v3 on bubba?

Thanks a lot for any help,
Marcin

PS. I just found out about the bankruptcy. I am really sorry about it guys!

[Gordon]

Try this:

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apt-get clean
aptitude download libicu44
dpkg --unpack ./libicu44_4.4.1-8_armel.deb
dpkg --configure libicu44