-force-all might be a
bit risky otherwise.
-- J.F. (Jeff)
On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 22:13 -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> Marty, thank you !
>
> I clobbered my clunky version of guile-1.6.postinst with the one you
> supplied, and voila.
>
> I never took any time to delve into the inna
predicament.
Regards,
Jeff
On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 22:01 -0400, Marty wrote:
> J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:24 -0400, Marty wrote:
> >> J.F.Gratton wrote:
> >> [snip snip]
> >> > Setting up guile-1.6 (1.6.7-1) ...
> >> > dpkg (subprocess
14)
Conffiles:
/etc/menu-methods/xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps 14ad37
there IS data corruption, as you can guess.
On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:45 -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:24 -0400, Marty wrote:
> > J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > [snip snip]
> > > Setting
On Tue, 2005-31-05 at 21:24 -0400, Marty wrote:
> J.F.Gratton wrote:
> [snip snip]
> > Setting up guile-1.6 (1.6.7-1) ...
> > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec
> > format error
> > dpkg: error processing guile-1.6 (--configure):
>
Hi all,
I've never been good to fix packages that break down at install (I'm not
blaming maintainers for the packages, btw... I guess I'm responsible for
the mess here).
Here's what happened :
-
helsinki:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
C
I just gave the first example that came to my mind, there are others,
I'm sure. I know that from time to time it did frustrate me to see
software I knew to be released, but not being available yet with apt.
Concerning the specifics as to why Gnome 2.8 was or was not there fast
enough... Do not
My 2 cents on this: I've been using unstable branches/testing for the
last couple of years now, and only once did I see broken packages that
stuck me there badly (you know, some combination of libc+perl+dpkg, or
something that lethal). Even then, with some fancy pussyfooting I
managed to repair eve
Me again.. :)
I'm trying to d/l an up-to-date image of the ISOs with the debian-
installer. All the links on the Debian Project home page point to
http://cdimage.debian.org . For the past 10 hours I've tried connecting
on the server; the connection times out.
Anyone knows anything about this ?
J
hoice is SunOS 5.9 as most of the servers
I manage are on that platform/version.
Jeff
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:51 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:53 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > Well nothing really out of ordinary, I think, with grub and lilo, as you
> > know.
&
2005-01-04 at 16:13 -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > Elimar, Roberto, Danke/gracias.
> >
> > I don't plan on gaming much on Linux, it's more my development
> > environment than anything else. I do play some games on XP (the machine
> > triple-boots Linux
..
Thanks for taking the time to answer !
Regards,
Jeff
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 21:35 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 the mental interface of
> J.F.Gratton told:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just went on ATI's site, on the site it inform
Hi,
I just went on ATI's site, on the site it informed that their binary-
only drivers have been tested on kernels 2.4.x. The FAQ said something
like development for 2.6.x kernels is still underway.
Since most ABIs are different on 2.4 and 2.6 and that module handling
does not work the same way,
I totally forgot to mention that I'm running a kernel 2.6.10 vanilla on
a Intel machine.
Jeff
> Is there a way to get some verbose output out of the mouse/keyboard
> subsytems ? I have here a MS Wireless Optical keyboard + mouse (USB, 'f
> course).
>
> Something is happening: from time to time
Now that I've settled my PDA questions, there's a new phenomenon on my
haunted system :)
Is there a way to get some verbose output out of the mouse/keyboard
subsytems ? I have here a MS Wireless Optical keyboard + mouse (USB, 'f
course).
Something is happening: from time to time my mouse will jum
.
So to both of you, thanks for taking the time to answer :)
Regards,
Jeff
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:46 -0800, Dave Carrigan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:27:19AM -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote:
>
> > Besides trying my PDA into each and every USB port (trial/error), is
> > ther
Hello everyone,
I've bought a Sony Clie PDA and am currently trying to make it connect
properly on my Debian system.
My computer has 2 hi-speed (USB 2) ports as well as 2 USB 1.1 ports.
When I run dpkg-reconfigure gnome-pilot (or kpilot), it asks on where
port will the PDA be connected, giving my
Anyone got stuck with this problem .. ?
I subscribed today to this list. I received two confirmation requests,
and since then I receive the same posts twice.
I then unsubscribed, figuring I might have goofed in the subscription
process; waited; re-suscribed and the same thing happens.
Oh well :
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:07, ben wrote:
> be fair. if it wasn't for rms, there might very well not be a linux,
> much less a debian.
A zealot is a zealot is a zealot. He might have been usefull, but past a
certain point, constant whining just becomes background
noise.
>From what I read (here a
... I should have thought of going at http://bugs.debian.org/ before
asking something here ...
For those of you who were stuck with the same problem, see :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205904
and
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205905
And then just relaunch
Anyone came across this problem ?
When I apt-get dist-upgrade my unstable system, the configuration phase
of dpkg hangs while configuring netbase
A quick ps -fe | grep netbase shows this :
root 29578 29577 9 11:26 pts/300:00:01 /usr/bin/perl -w
/usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/
A friend of mine (newbie) installed Debian by way of knoppix. I didn't
know about knoppix so I basically thought that he screwed up BIG TIME on
his install. I could not figure why on earth he'd need a logical volume
manager, why did he install everything under a single partition, why did
his vfat p
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 03:26, Gregor Stößer wrote:
>
> Yes, of course. Even, I don't think it is possible to have NFS running
> without the portmap daemon (?). And all my software is up to date, I'm
> already using NFS version 3 and version 4 is still experimental and not
> very stable at the momen
Hi everybody,
I'm trying to setup a Debian (unstable) system running on a 2.4.21
kernel with a mouse + keyboard wireless (RF) combo.
The model is a G-Tech (China) K-3523 combo.
I can get the keyboard to work, I get this entry in syslog:
Jul 24 21:48:46 oslo kernel: input0: USB HID v1.00 Keyboar
*snip*
Thank you, Craig and Mario V.
I should have thought about google, true .
Since I don't use any other mass storage devices, I guess I'll use the
workaround you mentionned.
I've thought of another solution this morning, totally unsatisfactory:
I'm running a Win2K machine in a VMWare host,
Hi there,
I just bought an Olympus D520Z digital cam, and of course, it doesn't
come with anything Linux-related. To transfer pictures from the cam to
my PC I'd have to use Windows, which I'd like to avoid as much as
possible.
Since in Windows my camera appears as a removable drive, I figured tha
Actually, both errors are *not* the same
Dan's is due to something missing in the kernel sources; I've read the
thread in the kernel developpers' mailing list, I can't recall exactly
what is missing, but I know that a patch is available, either for 2.4.20
or the soon-to-come 2.4.21. An acceptable
Hello Willem-Jan,
This is a generic problem you describe, but I'll try to (at least) give
you some directions on where to look for the source of that problem...
I have here two scenarios, one where the sshd daemon works fine
(scenario 1) and one where sshd doesn't work (scenario 2). I'm sorry if
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 22:27, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> /etc/modules is used by Debian to manually add modules the user/sysadmin
> wishes to load at boot time. After adding them, you then run
> 'update-modules' as root, which reads this, as well as some files in
> /etc/modutils/, to *create*
Good evening,
I might have missed that one, concerning /etc/modules, /etc/modules.conf
and modutils..
What does what in there ?
I might be using workarounds or not using my system effeciently but
I've never had to tamper with /etc/modules.conf.
All I did so far to get modules to load and t
las legolas was the local host, right ?
#[server-Chooser]
#name=Chooser
#command=/usr/bin/X11/X -indirect helsinki
#flexible=true
[servers]
0=Standard vt7
#1=Chooser vt8
Many thanks, Don !
Jeff
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 19:11, Donald Spoon wrote:
> J.F.Gratton wrote:
> > Hello all,
Hello all,
I have two computers (networked, 'f course) both with the same setup,
gdm + gnome 2.2 latest versions (I apt-get dist-upgrade every day on the
unstable branch).
The way I understood the Chooser is that I'd be able to get the gdm
login screen of PC #2 on PC #1 .
I've found an (outdate
At 21:07 2001-08-01 -0500, you wrote:
Thank You JEFF,
Many of the acronyms that are used I do not know and have to guess at them.
hey, isn't that why we have such fine mailing lists like this one ? to help
people out :) I get plenty of help here :)
Jeff
At 17:57 2001-08-01 -0700, you wrote:
np. at least I got a reply very quickly...anyway, two hopefully not dumb
questions...
1. Where can I get the source-tarballs and/or packages and what are they
called?
2. What did you mean by "a given package."?
OK... a good bet to find the source tarba
At 17:36 2001-08-01 -0700, you wrote:
Hi,
Just wondering if there was a repository somewhere where I can get xpm/png
files of /usr/share/pixmaps. I noticed that redhat,debian,etc have some
different collection of xpm/png files and I would like to get a good
collection of them to use in my desktop.
...me again !
As I mentionned 2 days ago, I'm unable to upgrade X 4.0x to X 4.1.0
because of a dpkg error that I'll reproduce again here :
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config: return: bad non-numeric arg `Check'
dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): subprocess
post-installa
Hello all,
I've fallen throught a weird crack.
When I dist-upgrade and upgrade XFree to 4.1.0-1 dpkg starts configuring
the package and then falls on its face.
It asks for the keyboard model (101, 104 or 105 keys, etc), and then exits
with this message:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xfree86.config
On 23 Jul 2001, Guy Geens wrote:
> Did you read the Oracle8-HOWTO? It gives a few hints.
>
> IIRC, most common problems seem to be an incorrect libc version, or
> the wrong JDK (HOWTO mentions the version Oracle wants).
>
> I tried installing Oracle 8 on my home machine once. After selecting the
>
>
> It's already filed as an important bug in the libc6 package.
>
> It broke during the unpacking, as the error messages say. In such case,
> dpkg will roll back to the previous version of the package. So the
> preinst script on your disk is the old one, without the cp -L.
>
> I'm afraid you're
>
> cp from potato doesn't have the -L option.
>
> Maybe you should upgrade fileutils manually first (maybe recompiling
> if it doesnt install: cd; apt-get source -b fileutils; dpkg -i
> fileutils-.deb).
>
> chris
OK I tried that ... still stuck... here's what I got :
It fetched fileutils 4.1
Stan,
Awhile back (last november) I tried to install Oracle 8.1.6.2 on Debian
'potato' and it's true, it just won't work. Worst of it, you won't get any
error messages. Oracle will link its binaries without a hitch, but
whenever you'll try "startup nomount" it will just hang there. I don't
know ab
At 17:42 2001-07-22 +0100, you wrote:
At 9:29 Uhr -0600 22.7.2001, Jimmy Richards wrote:
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:00:39AM -0400, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> cp: invalid option -- L
cp from potato doesn't have the -L option.
Maybe you should upgrade fileutils manually first (maybe recomp
Hi Jeff,
I took a look at my /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.preinst file and it has
'cp -L /lib/libdb.so.3 /lib/libdb.so.3.old' on line #21. Not sure
exactly what's happening with your's. It seems like you're system just
doesn't like the '-L' option for cp. Look at the man page for c
Hi, I just tried to install Deb on a new PC, but I can't complete the
install, somehow. Here's what happens.
- I started the install with Deb 2.2r3's boot floppy (well actually the
first cd) and then changed my /etc/apt/sources.list to point to an ftp
server with unstable instead of stable.
- It
Hi,
As some people here, I had problems with libpam when I updated my (-Sid-)
distro yesterday. I did what was suggested, I got my hands on the newest
version coming from http://incoming.debian.org and everything went OK.
Now there's something funny happening. I'm also running oidentd on the
ks again.
Jeff
At 20:17 2001-05-27 +0100, you wrote:
"J.F.Gratton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello, I'm trying to compile Firestarter 0.7.1 on a Debian (unstable)
>system. After I got most of the dependencies correctly, I still needed one
>package to be insta
Hello, I'm trying to compile Firestarter 0.7.1 on a Debian (unstable)
system. After I got most of the dependencies correctly, I still needed one
package to be installed, which is libgnomeprint11
Everytime I try to install this package, dpkg returns this:
Setting up libgnomeprint11 (0.25-ximia
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