On Sun 31 Mar 2019 at 16:35:44 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, March 30, 2019 04:12:05 PM rh kramer wrote: > > I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed > > things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie > > system.
Saw your post too late to help much. > Things might be OK. Things I did: > > * googled for errorackage -- found some pages but not much help -- some > pages gave long lists of instructions to try, but it sounded more like a > shotgun approach than any real knowledge based thing. Some people thought it > meant a hardware bus error, some thought some kind of memory problem > (hardware > or not), others just suggested commands to try -- maybe there is a better > page > out there that I didn't find I hit this bizarre page that has a comparable multitude of possibilities. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212466/what-is-a-bus-error > * Aside: what the heck does errorackage mean / stand for and what is it > telling me? Who came up with that "word"? In school arithmetical notation: Reading package lists... 89% + Bus error ---------------------------- Bus errorackage lists... 89% ----===========------------- > * I edited sources.list to get rid of the jessie-updates (I don't think > that did anything significant with respect to the errorackage error) > > * I did a df and found /boot and /var close to full, I examined /var > expecting to find a lot of space used for the apt archives, but instead there > was a bunch of stuff (in /var/tmp as opposed to /var/cache/apt/archives) > related to mkinit... (I'm writing from a different computer, so I couldn't > copy > and paste) -- something like over 1.5 GB -- deleted all that, then did: Yes, that's one of the options in that page, but the link to the report is broken: for me the partition containing /var/cache was simply full https://askubuntu.com/a/915520/493379 > apt-get update > > apt-get upgrade > > That seemed to work pretty well, I mean, it seemed to install everything > except the new linux kernel which was held back. > > tried: > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Found a message in there that said a partition / filesystem was out of space > -- > /var looked ok, so cleared out some space in /boot by deleting an old kernel > (something like n.n.n -04) > > tried > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > This time saw a message that it didn't work and suggested that I try apt-get > -f install <and then, presumably, a packagename> > > instead, I tried > > apt-get -f dist-upgrade > > That seemed to work, so things may be ok -- I guess I'll have to watch the > system for a while and think about rebooting (to put the new kernel in > service). > > What I did and why: > > > > I understood from some other posts on the list that the mirrored > > repositories for Wheezy and Jessie went away in early March, so (for > > Jessie) I found a post that told me what the content of > > /etc/apt/sources.list should be for Jessie LTS. Yes, on my two legacy jessie systems, I cut sources.list down to: # this was wheezy and was upgraded to jessie #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20130615-21:53]/ wheezy main deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free I figured that sources were of no use to me. I also took out all the backports packages because, for example, I no longer do video manipulation with ffmpeg on these machines. After finding which packages with apt-show-versions, I reinstalled them with # apt-get -s -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.17:3142/"; install foo=1.2.3 using the -s option at first to make sure I grouped their removal where necessary. So now my jessie systems are clean apart from xtoolwait from squeeze and fonts-hack-ttf from stretch, both with no dependencies. > > Oh, an extra credit question: are there mirrors I can use for Jessie LTS or > > must I use debian.org? If there are mirrors I can use, where would I find > > those? ftp.us.debian.org has always worked for me (eg wheezy until late last year). Cheers, David.
