Re: Pre/Post Install Script Failurei

1999-10-30 Thread shadgun
No, it is mounted with defaults... > > is the partition where /var/tmp resides mounted noexec? >

Pre/Post Install Script Failurei

1999-10-29 Thread shadgun
Reply-To: Running potato on an i386 (been there since Aug.) Now I am seeing the following errors: penguin:/var/cache/apt/archives/fucked# dpkg --configure enlightenment-theme-bluesteel Setting up enlightenment-theme-bluesteel (0.16.0-2) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute

changing install path of .debs

1999-10-26 Thread shadgun
ate these packages, or will apt make the proper adjustments with instdir? Does anyone have any experience with chroot on a debian box? Is it worth the hassel? TIA, shadgun pgp0GCul1MZuQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

XFree86-3.9.15 success and/or debs?

1999-07-22 Thread shadgun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hey all, Has anybody got any experieces/tips to get this running? Specifically on a potato system... I've done the make World, but haven't installed yet... Hoping someone will tell me everything will be alright ;-) Shad -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

package problems

1999-07-21 Thread shadgun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, okay... I know all the warnings about unstable should have been heeded, but all I want to do now is salvage my box. How do I: A) salvage the dpkg database, I get errors about fsync and B) if that cant be done... downgrade to slink. Im not s

potato dpkg goodness

1999-07-17 Thread shadgun
Anyone out there familiar with this? bash-2.02$ sudo apt-get -f install dpkg Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/345kB of archives. After u

potato and dselect issues

1999-07-14 Thread shadgun
I am running a potato system, and recently when I update or install packages through dselect, I see many errors concerning fsync and also errors unpacking the debs. Is this limited to my system or a global issue?