> 3. apt-get dist-upgrade > > To understand a bit the difference between an upgrade and a dist-upgrade > see here: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgrade I brought a woody box up to sid the other day, and dist-upgrade doesn't help with it, you must do the loop break like the error message says (or install manually like Mike ended up doing). It's because of the g++ 3.x ABI upgrade, all of pam must upgrade at the same time, so there's no order for apt to install things in that won't leave the system broken for a short period of time... --Nick