Vitux wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > > Vitux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just > > >crapped out?) > > >Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go > > >installing stuff. > > >Now, I get "bash: dselect: command not found". > > >Ok, maybe there's some path been lost: > > >~#whereis dselect > > >Dselect: /usr/bin/dselect > > >Let's try it, then: > > >~#/usr/bin/dselect > > >bash: usr/bin/dselect: Input/output error > > > > It sounds like something dselect's calling is dying, perhaps - or > > alternatively you might have a disk problem. Could you run 'strace > > dselect' or 'strace /usr/bin/dselect' as root and post at least the end > > of the log that results, please? > > > > If you don't have the strace package (you should, as it's standard), > > then download it manually and 'dpkg -i' the package file. > > > > >The really weird part is, I've used it just today to install the > > >mach64-xserver from which I'm typing this?! Along with mach64 (which I > > >chose to install) potato wanted to install lots of stuff I'm not using, > > >including emacs, xemacs, and a german dictionary (I don't even speak > > >german). > > > > emacs20 is standard; xemacs21 may be getting pulled in by something. The > > German dictionary is odd - perhaps you're getting slightly confused by > > dselect here. ispell (a standard package) recommends ispell-dictionary, > > and igerman/ingerman happen to provide this. When you install ispell, > > dselect's dependency resolution screen will pop up a list of all the > > available packages providing ispell-dictionary, with the idea that you > > choose one of them. Once you get used to it, the lower pane that > > provides descriptions of the current problems - and of the packages, > > too, if you hit 'i' - can be very helpful. > > > > >I chose not to install most of this, except for some gnomelibs and a > > >few other libs, which I figured might be important. > > > > Did you have to override dselect in its ideas about dependencies? If so, > > you might have removed or failed to install something important ... you > > didn't uninstall libstdc++2.10 or any of the ncurses stuff, did you? > > > > If that's the problem, you'll likely be able to recover it with plain > > dpkg, though it might take a bit of to-and-froing on this mailing list. > > :) > > > > -- > > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > Happiness and glee, dselect is back up again. I did a reboot > to install an extra disk, and it got back again. I guess some > process must have hung or something. > Great. > Sorry to bother you guys. > Regards > Vitux > > -- > "I'm not a crook" > Richard Nixon > > Debian GNU/Linux > Micro$loth-free Zone copy for the list -- "I'm not a crook" Richard Nixon
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