Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Hi everyone, Well, it looks like I may have an intermittent problem. Yesterday I removed 2 Gb of memory (2 sticks, 1 Gb each) leaving 2 Gb in the box but I still had problems. Today, I booted the machine and I no longer had APT dependency issues. In fact, I can now install packages with eas

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Yes, it could be that. I'm a software guy not a hardware guy. How do you suggest I diagnose a hardware problem? Keep in mind I cannot install/remove any packages at the moment. Apt cannot build the dependency tree. It just hangs. Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Nick Syrotiuk

Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Hi everyone, I'm having some major problems with Lenny on a new Dell PC (only 2 months old). The problems only started this week after I upgraded my system. I wrote to this list earlier in the week about GCONF-CRITICAL and other issues. And I followed Lee's and Sven's advice-- thanks! But

Re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
rfect just yesterday... Regards, Nick Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-12 13:14 +0100, Nick Syrotiuk wrote: re: problem 1 What command(s) do I need to execute after I correct the typo in the file? Try "aptitude -f install" or "apt-get -f install". Or maybe "aptitude

re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
windows crash; "clearlooks" theme has vanished; fonts messed up - apt and aptitude were both stuck after the upgrade as well but removing epiphany seemed to fix that Cheers, Nick Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-11-12 11:46 +0100, Nick Syrotiuk wrote: Hi everyone, I just upgraded my Le

Conf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Hi everyone, I just upgraded my Lenny system and encountered some problems. Here are two of the problems but there were others also: 1. Preparing to replace libempathy-gtk-common 0.23.3-2 (using .../libempathy-gtk-common_0.23.3-3_all.deb) ... (gconftool-2:5099): GConf-CRITICAL **: Failed to lo