On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I think I have something basically wrong with my system. > > Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with > a floating point exception.
could you have an old version of libc? [...] > > It seems to me that either something got corrupted during > the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that > shouldn't be, or there is the wrong version of a library > somewhere. I agree with the others. You should not rule out hardware issues. THey have a nasty habit of cropping up with you aer sure its something else. Start with a good cleaning (heat sinks, fans etc), followed by a doubile check that fans are working, then work through power-supply and memory before you head farther upstream. > > Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove > 150+ "unused" packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right > to me so I don't use it. If you are truly up-to-date, that shouldn't be the issue... unless you've got some old library version that GNOME et al have moved beyond causing the "unused" state and the whole thing to cascade. Use aptitude interactively and pick a couple high-level packages. Review them and their deps carefully. Maybe experiment the ':' holding gnome and see what it changes about the conflict resolution. You may be able to highlight the problem that way. > > Any way, any ideas short of the old Windows stand by, > "Format the hard drive and reinstall"? ugh. anything but that... ;) A
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