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Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11AM -0400, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny >> Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as >> it should have. >> >> Soon after installation I wanted to upgrade the installed packages. >> First I updated /etc/apt/sources.list, including adding to it >> debian-volatile so that I could install the clamav set of anti-virus >> packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. Then I ran (as root) >> "aptitude update", followed by "aptitude upgrade". It downloaded some >> 33 package upgrades, including a new kernel (2.6.25-2-686 to replace >> 2.6.24) and tzdata. >> >> The package setup only got as far as tzdata, when the machine hung. To >> get the machine going again I had to turn it off using the on/off button >> and do a cold boot without a proper shutdown. >> >> After rebooting I ran aptitude again. It returned the message that >> aptitude had been interrupted, and to get it running again I had to run >> "dpkg --reconfigure -a". I tried to do so several times; each time it >> tried to set up tzdata, only getting as far as to say what the current >> time zone is before hanging up the machine. > > After it shows you your current time zone, it runs "date". Does > running that command at the prompt crash the machine for you? > > Daniel Daniel, the problem was indeed the "date" command. Previously I had wanted to reformat the output of that command. To do so I created a script file with the same name. Since I had not anticipated use of that script file inside of another I did not set it up for such use. Consequently when the tzdata setup ran date, the setup hung. To solve the problem I created an alias for date with my desired format. After doing so I ran once again "dpkg --reconfigure -a", this time successfully. Thanks for the tip. Regards, Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjVC8MACgkQlNlJzOkJmTe+PgCdGGE3/hx43CnlkcLsYUkOrVk5 oLkAn1PKjvojhKYDdFNDi9beZiWLyHQy =NlHB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
