Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:06:18 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 14:19:42 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > Thanks for the suggestion; I just tried - no luck. I'll add here that > > apt-cache search some_package also segfaults, at least some of the time. > > I've dist-upgraded my Sid machine n

Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 14:19:42 -0400, Celejar wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion; I just tried - no luck. I'll add here that > apt-cache search some_package also segfaults, at least some of the time. I've dist-upgraded my Sid machine not 5 minutes ago. It had 0.8.15.1 for apt. Segfaulting and pin

Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:09:55 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 08:40:32 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > I've tried (repeatedly) deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin, but it doesn't > > help, nor does anything else I try. > > Did you try replacing /var/lib/dpkg/available and/or /var/lib/dpkg/statu

Re: aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Brian
On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 08:40:32 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I've tried (repeatedly) deleting /var/cache/apt/*.bin, but it doesn't > help, nor does anything else I try. Did you try replacing /var/lib/dpkg/available and/or /var/lib/dpkg/status with the -old copies? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

aptitude and apt-get both segfaulting

2011-06-30 Thread Celejar
This is really ugly - aptitude has begun to consistently segfault on startup, and apt-get on 'apt-get upgrade' ('update' works): ~# aptitude Ouch! Got SIGSEGV, dying.. Segmentation fault ~# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid InRelease [146 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/ma

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 06 apr 11, 15:58:05, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > 'apt-get upgrade' is synonymous with 'aptitude full-upgrade'. No, it's not. In fact, 'aptitude safe-upgrade' will install new packages, while 'apt-get upgrade' will not ;) > Either way, not to be a dick and suggest you RTFM, but you really

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-07 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 07 April 2011 16:38:42 David Jardine wrote: > Nobody's challenged this yet, so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that > aptitude's safe-upgrade and full-upgrade are equivalent to apt-get's > upgrade and dist-upgrade respectively.  But I still think so. :) And they say that they are much

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-07 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:44:30PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > I know very little about apt-get, but according to Aaron, who > clearly does know about it, apt-get upgrade is equivalent to aptitude > full-upgrade. Nobody's challenged this yet, so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that aptitude's s

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:44:30 +0100 Lisi wrote: > You just need to remember that, in effect, if you run aptitude > safe-upgrade you are telling aptitude that it mustn't remove > anything. This restriction may mean that it can't upgrade. Thanks for that information Lisi. Aptitude does remove some

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 05 April 2011 23:35:08 Charlie wrote: > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 15:58:05 -0600 Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:35:08AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all > > but one application file. > > > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > > sever

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:35:08AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for > several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do aptitude > "safe-upgrade"

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:50:43 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:35:08 +1000, Charlie wrote: > > > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all > > but one application file. > > > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it sho

Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-06 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:35:08 +1000, Charlie wrote: > Trying to satisfy a curiosity. > > I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but > one application file. > > Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for several > days and doesn't get upgraded when

Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

2011-04-05 Thread Charlie
Trying to satisfy a curiosity. I upgrade my Debian Wheezy system with aptitude and it upgrades all but one application file. Redo: "aptitude update" and it shows that file hangs around for several days and doesn't get upgraded when I do aptitude "safe-upgrade" after "aptitude update" each time d

Re: was iceape puzzle now aptitude and apt-get puzzle

2008-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/08 13:24, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Last night I did a complete reinstall of debian and am in the sid > distribution now. That was to clear the iceape problem. A few minutes > ago though this same thing happened when installing nethack-common a

Re: was iceape puzzle now aptitude and apt-get puzzle

2008-03-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 13:24:34 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Last night I did a complete reinstall of debian and am in the sid > distribution now. That was to clear the iceape problem. A few minutes > ago though this same thing happened when installing nethack-common a > totally unrelated

was iceape puzzle now aptitude and apt-get puzzle

2008-03-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
Last night I did a complete reinstall of debian and am in the sid distribution now. That was to clear the iceape problem. A few minutes ago though this same thing happened when installing nethack-common a totally unrelated package. Something almost for sure is broken with the debian package

Re: aptitude and apt-get path error

2007-06-13 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:02:59AM -0300, Iuri Sampaio wrote: > Hi, > > > > In attempt to run apt-get update or even aptitude update, i got the error > bellow: > > It seems the paths are wrongly typed. But I’m pretty sure they are correct > Looks like a network configuration problem. What d

aptitude and apt-get path error

2007-06-13 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Hi, In attempt to run apt-get update or even aptitude update, i got the error bellow: It seems the paths are wrongly typed. But I’m pretty sure they are correct debianserver:~# aptitude update Err http://ftp.br.debian.org etch Release.gpg Could not resolve 'ftp.br.debian.org' Ign h

Re: aptitude and apt-get refuse to upgrade a package.

2006-03-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Luis Maceira wrote: > aptitude and apt-get both don´t upgrade the packages > libsigc++-2.0-0_2.0.10-1 and > libsigc++-2.0-dev_2.0.10-1 > to the corresponding packages of the version 2.0.16-3. > I built the packages of the 2.0.16-3 version in my own > computer using the debian so

aptitude and apt-get refuse to upgrade a package.

2006-03-22 Thread Luis Maceira
aptitude and apt-get both don´t upgrade the packages libsigc++-2.0-0_2.0.10-1 and libsigc++-2.0-dev_2.0.10-1 to the corresponding packages of the version 2.0.16-3. I built the packages of the 2.0.16-3 version in my own computer using the debian sources and all went O.K.,and the packages files

Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. You might want to check out cron-apt, it's de

Re: running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 10:08:45PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root > gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. > > However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to > the list suggest

running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Kimber
I have been running 'apt-get-update' from cron during the night. Root gets sent the output which is much as one would see in a terminal. However, following a recent message from someone (Colin Watson???) to the list suggesting that it is better to run aptitude than apt-get directly, I have been e

Re: Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Paul Bryan
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 08:52, Jeff wrote: > > I ran an strace on aptitude without any other instance and once with > another instance running and diff'd the output and found this: > > aptitude: > < fcntl64(3, F_SETLK, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_SET, start=0, len=0}) > = 0 > < open("/va

Re: Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff
Mike Kuhar, 2002-Sep-10 16:35 -0400: > I've checked, and there are no other instances of either apt-get or aptitude > running. Further, the appropriate permissions are set to the directories > /var/cache/apt and /var/cache/apt/archives. > > One question, however. Is the pid of either apt-get or

RE: Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Kuhar
ither may check? -mk > -Original Message- > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 4:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Aptitude and apt-get > > > Mike Kuhar, 2002-Sep-10 13:43 -0400: > > Thanks for the reply, J

Re: Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff
Mike Kuhar, 2002-Sep-10 13:43 -0400: > Thanks for the reply, Jeff. > > After reinstalling apt, aptitude and dpkg, I still had the same problem. > > -mk Hmmm...the only time I see that message "could not lock the cache, opening in read-only mode" is when I have left aptitude open on another term

RE: Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Kuhar
Thanks for the reply, Jeff. After reinstalling apt, aptitude and dpkg, I still had the same problem. -mk > -Original Message- > From: Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Aptitude and apt-g

Re: Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Jeff
Mike Kuhar, 2002-Sep-10 04:03 -0400: > Hi everyone, > > I've got a strange one. As root, in aptitude, I'll do an update > successfully. Then I do an upgrade, the files download, the progress bar > will not show total progress, just progress per file, then reset to 0% for > the next file. When

Aptitude and apt-get

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Kuhar
Hi everyone, I've got a strange one. As root, in aptitude, I'll do an update successfully. Then I do an upgrade, the files download, the progress bar will not show total progress, just progress per file, then reset to 0% for the next file. When the files complete downloading, I hit a carrige r

aptitude and apt-get dist-upgrade do different things?

2001-07-07 Thread Erik Steffl
I thought that basically all front-ends for pacakge system would work same way, or at least similarly. However aptitude and apt-get dist-upgrade seem to differ a lot. Why is that? And why are they trying to remove various packages from the system? e.g. I don't want the kde-designer to be re