[wplug] apt-get dist-upgrade broken

[Brandon Kuczenski]

I was brave last night and tried to run apt-get dist-upgrade (currently 
running Debian testing, somewhere between sarge and whatever).  When I 
checked on the computer this morning it had generated an error and 
stopped.  The error was that the 'udev' package requires a kernel greater 
than 2.6.12 to install, but the kernel hadn't been upgraded yet.

I tried rebooting, but the new 2.6.13 kernel was not available on the grub 
menu; I take that to mean that it was not installed.

I moved into /var/cache/apt/archives and tried to dpkg -i the most recent 
kernel package (which I think was named kernel-debian-all-9 or something 
like that; running in single-user mode so I can't check just now; if it's 
important let me know and I will reply) and there were about two dozen 
unmet dependencies, including make, which was not configured, perl, which 
was not configured, and so on.

I really don't know where in the process the error occurred, so I'm afraid 
to boot into multiuser mode until I get the dist-upgrade finished.  But I 
am totally lost.  What do I do next?

-Brandon