apt-get dist-upgrade fails

[ghostryder]

Hi,

I wanted to upgrade from testing to unstable. So I made a

apt-get dist-upgrade

but that just gave me the following error
Need to get 0B/61.3MB of archives.
After unpacking 1912kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 24999 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace base-files 3.1 (using .../base-files_3.1.0_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement base-files ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1.0_i386.deb (--unpack):
unable to stat `./home' (which I was about to install): Permission denied
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_3.1.0_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't know what I made worng... Can anybody help me?

[fuckup]

hi,

sounds as if there is more than one possible reason.

1. Check your /etc/apt/sources.list
Did you enter the correct unstable sources? They are pretty much the same, but have an unstable where the old ones have testing.

2. Is there enough free space on your device?
df -h will tell you.

bye

[wiella]

.........are you logged in as root?