Le mercredi 30 août 2006 à 11:04 +0200, Michael Noisternig a écrit : > Hello everyone,
Hello, > hope anybody can help. Here is the problem... > > First day: Installed current Debian testing on Athlon XP via network. Thanks for giving a try at the testing branch. Whatever feedback you can give will be greatly appreciated by the Debian developpers. > Took a long time as the ISP hat some problem, losing a lot of packets, > as I would figure out later. Finally, when it rebooted, I got to the > command line login prompt, leaving me wondering whether the dist came > without a desktop environment by default. As I would later figure out, > too, the debian installer simply left out packages it lost TCP > connection on, without re-trying to get them or asking the user what to > do! Who the f* is responsible for that design? Anyway... Probably someone who spent days of their free time in providing the debian-installer. Anyway... You certainly want to send a bug report against debian-installer, at least as a feature request. If the installer drops only packages that are not necessary to reboot and fix the system later, it would only be a feature request, though. > Second day: ISP's problem was resolved. Tried to "apt-get install > gnome". After having downloaded all new packages, apt-get simply hang at > 99%. Forver. Without CPU load. Did apt-get clean/autoclean/update. > Changed net source. No change. Reproducable. > > Decided to re-format and re-install. This time everything seemed fine, > after reboot I immediately got into the gnome environment. Of course I > immediately wanted to install some packages again. BUT! Again the same > problem! Small packages worked fine, e.g. "apt-get install madplay". But > I couldn't install any bigger packages like xmms or lyx. What is going > on here? Anyone has a clue? Looks to me like you've hit a bug in dpkg or apt-get. Again, it's very helpful if you can report it. Now as to getting around this problem (and investigating its cause, so your bug report is more useful), I would try using aptitude instead of apt-get (works the same way on the command line), if you can install aptitude that is. I would also try downloading some of the packages manually from packages.debian.org (they may be already in you cache, somewhere near /var/cache/apt/something), and installing them using dpkg. If any of these works, you know the problem is in apt-get. Note that you can still use apt-get to resolve the dependencies for you if you end up having to install packages manually (for as long as the bug your're reporting is not fixed): simply do a dry apt-get run (see the manpages) and install manually the packages that apt-get wants to install. You can also do a "ps | grep dpkg" when apt-get hangs to see whether or not it's really dpkg that hangs. > Thanks for your feedback! And thanks for yours. T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
