Re: apt-get has stopped working on my machine

2002-03-22 Thread Jason Wood
On Thursday 21 March 2002 12:23 pm, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:19:30AM +0000, Jason Wood wrote: > > > > If anyone is interested, I've uploaded my current (broken) status file > > (gzipped) here : > > > > http://www.uchian.pwp.b

Re: apt-get has stopped working on my machine

2002-03-21 Thread Jason Wood
On Thursday 21 March 2002 9:05 am, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:35:20PM +0000, Jason Wood wrote: > > I sent an email to the list on Saturday, but I have been unable to > > discover what is wrong with apt-get on my machine. Dselect & dpkg work > >

apt-get has stopped working on my machine

2002-03-20 Thread Jason Wood
doing a full reinstall which would be total overkill :-) -- Jason Wood Persistence is a virtue

Help! apt-get fails on /var/lib/dpkg/status

2002-03-16 Thread Jason Wood
tatus file itself. In the mean time, I cannot update anything on my computer using apt-get - what should I do? -- Jason Wood Persistence is a virtue

How to overburn CD's?

2002-02-03 Thread Jason Wood
CD or xcdroast - but neither of these has an option to overburn a CD, and either flatly refuse to try, or fail after writing 74 minutes worth of music. My computer can burn cd's fine if I'm not trying to do this. Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong, and how I can overburn a c

Re: Warning: Do NOT upgrade base-passwd in unstable!

2002-01-20 Thread Jason Wood
On Sunday 20 January 2002 2:57 pm, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > If you are running unstable, do NOT upgrade the base-passwd package!!! > Version 3.2.2 has a critical bug which causes it to swap the UIDs and GIDs > for users in the /etc/passwd file. (See bug reports #130032 and 130085.) Hehe, cheers.

Help! Random reboots after booting

2002-01-15 Thread Jason Wood
Hi, Recently, for the last month or so, I have been suffering my computer occasionally rebooting on bootup. I only found out for sure today, because I normally let my computer get on with booting whilst I make a cup of tea, etc. It seems to occur as soon as X starts - the cursor is frozen as so

Re: What part of X causes major display problems?

2002-01-06 Thread Jason Wood
with a width of 1 pixel. This sounds like X just closing down back to text mode, then restarting, which is what it's supposed to do when you press Ctrl+Alt+Bksp. It's normal behaviour, except for the problem that you already described. Jason Wood

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-03 Thread Jason Wood
xit' will return you to your normal root partition, in this case the rescue disk's) Assuming hda1 is your root partition : chroot /mnt/hda1 Now you should be able to use any software that is normally running on your system, though I suggest that finishing the kernel upgrade and running lilo, or reverting to the previous kernel and running lilo are probably your best options :-) Jason Wood

Re: emergency shutdown?

2002-01-02 Thread Jason Wood
ur current installation, press F3 and check out what it says. Have fun... Jason Wood

Re: Strange boot problems.

2001-12-30 Thread Jason Wood
On Sunday 30 December 2001 4:36 pm, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 04:03:00PM +0000, Jason Wood wrote: > :# ln /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17 vmlinuz.old > :ln: creating hard link `vmlinuz.old' to `/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19pre17': > : Invalid cross-device link

Strange boot problems.

2001-12-30 Thread Jason Wood
;t understand the error "Invalid cross-device link", and on google search I don't find many references to it (and none of them have anything to do with booting the kernel). Can anyone shed any light on what's going on with my system, and how I should fix it permanently? Thanks to anyone who can help me, Jason Wood