Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-26 Thread rlharris
On Wed, August 26, 2015 7:44 pm, David Christensen wrote: > Approx became unstable for me after a while. I use IPCop as my firewall > router, which offers HTTP caching: > > http://ipcop.org/ I have been using approx for two or three years and last used it to reinstall this machine about a month a

Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-26 Thread David Christensen
On 08/25/2015 09:59 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Also, take a few minutes to install and configure the Debian package "approx" on another machine in your LAN, and then specify that machine as your installation mirror. That way you have to go through the tedious package download only once, and

Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting D. R. Evans (doc.ev...@gmail.com): > D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 02:04 PM: > > At this point, I am getting the same error if I simply do: > > apt-get update > > after listing the "hit" and "ignore" packages, I see: > > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.Permissions

[SOLVED] Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-26 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 02:04 PM: > D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 01:56 PM: >> I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting >> with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so >> of >> actual installation: >> > >> Error: GDBus.Err

Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting D. R. Evans (doc.ev...@gmail.com): > D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 01:56 PM: > > I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting > > with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so > > of > > actual installation: > > > > > Error: G

Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-25 Thread rlharris
On Tue, August 25, 2015 11:43 pm, David Christensen wrote: > On 08/25/2015 12:56 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: >> I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, >> ... > I learned many years ago that distribution upgrades were a recipe for > disaster. > ... > do a fresh install of the new OS, and then re

Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-25 Thread David Christensen
On 08/25/2015 12:56 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so of actual installation: ... I learned many years ago that distribution upgrades were a recipe for di

Re: Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-25 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 01:56 PM: > I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting > with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so of > actual installation: > > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid

Failure during upgrade wheezy -> jessie

2015-08-25 Thread D. R. Evans
I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so of actual installation: Setting up libxkbcommon0:amd64 (0.4.3-2) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgtk-3-bin: libgtk