Re: HELP - dpkg status file was lost

2003-10-20 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +1000, Richard Brooks wrote: > After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors > along the way . . . I lost the status file for dpkg/dselect/apt-get. > > Now - I cannot do any dselect/apt-get/dpkg operations without a > segmentation fault

Re: HELP - dpkg status file was lost

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Richard Brooks wrote: HELP ! All was going along swimmingly until I got a segmentation fault in a dselect operation, which resulted in me having to press the dreaded reset switch. After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . . I lost the status file fo

HELP - dpkg status file was lost

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Brooks
HELP !   All was going along swimmingly until I got a segmentation fault in a dselect operation, which resulted in me having to press the dreaded reset switch.   After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . .   I lost the status file for dpkg/dselec

Re: need help! dpkg corrupted!

2001-10-08 Thread Dmitriy
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 12:10:06PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > I have a major problem with my Debian/Testing/Alpha > system. In the process of updating my system today > via apt-get, apparently dpkg segfaulted. Apparently > due to this segfault, my dpkg-dependent files are > corrupt. For exa

need help! dpkg corrupted!

2001-10-08 Thread James D. Freels
I have a major problem with my Debian/Testing/Alpha system. In the process of updating my system today via apt-get, apparently dpkg segfaulted. Apparently due to this segfault, my dpkg-dependent files are corrupt. For example, if I issue "dpkg -l", I get an empty response. If I issue a manual d

Re: HELP: dpkg refuses to install my self compiled kernel??

2001-08-24 Thread David Z Maze
Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BB> anyway i compiled that kernel also with make-kpg and wanted to install BB> it but: BB> dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.4.9_Custom.1.00_i386.deb BB> (--install): BB> failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1 backend dpkg-deb during BB> `./lib/modul

HELP: dpkg refuses to install my self compiled kernel??

2001-08-24 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello! still struggling with the 'no way to install a working bootloader' so i recompiled a 2.4 kernel with no initrd and fix compiled SCSI support inside which still panics claiming not to be able to find the root partition whilst it showed the disk a few lines before... anyway i com

Re: help? dpkg db screwed up

2001-06-18 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Iain wrote: > I seem to have put the dpkg database into a bad state. > I was attempting to install phpgroupware from unstable onto a potato system. > Anyway somewhere along the installation process it screwed up so I tried to > remove > it. > > dpkg -r phpgroupware > > gives t

help? dpkg db screwed up

2001-06-17 Thread Iain
I seem to have put the dpkg database into a bad state. I was attempting to install phpgroupware from unstable onto a potato system. Anyway somewhere along the installation process it screwed up so I tried to remove it. dpkg -r phpgroupware gives the following: dpkg: error processing phpgroupw

Re: Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
On Sun Mar 18 14:16:20 2001 Mircea Luca wrote... > >Stan Brown wrote: >> >> >> This of course renders dselect useless! >> >> Help, please, how do I fix this? >> > > >kill -9 logpager > >before dpkg --purge > >should do it. > >Or you can remove /etc/init.d/console-log ,reboot then safely remove

Re: Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

2001-03-18 Thread Mircea Luca
Stan Brown wrote: > > I installled console-log, because it looked useful. > > However once I did that, I could not get the machine in question to shutdown > cleanly, it always hung at shutting down console-log. > > So, I tried to remove it with dselect. dslect hung while suting it down alos. >

Help! dpkg --prge-package hangs forever

2001-03-18 Thread Stan Brown
I installled console-log, because it looked useful. However once I did that, I could not get the machine in question to shutdown cleanly, it always hung at shutting down console-log. So, I tried to remove it with dselect. dslect hung while suting it down alos. At this point in time, I have rboo

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:50:12PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 > I installed the sources that way, compiled them, and then used make-dpkg to get a deb package. But dpkg won't install the resulting deb. Is there a way to coerce apt into installing a local file

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: > Regarding: > > > dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb > > > (--install): > > > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 > > On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
Regarding: > > dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): > > subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote:

HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
This is an urgent plea for help! The problem is one I've experienced sporadically since I started with Debian several months back. Some packages won't install, giving an error such as this one: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error proces

Re: HELP: dpkg

1998-01-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 04:47:31PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > From: "Albert Hurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I believe there is only one underscore in the file name. Try > "xisp_2.1-1.deb" Yes, I find that Netscape 4 loves to change all-but-one of the dots in

Re: HELP: dpkg

1997-12-31 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
> From: "Albert Hurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I believe there is only one underscore in the file name. Try "xisp_2.1-1.deb" ^ Bob On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Albert Hurd writes: > > I tried dpkg -i (and cp) on xisp_2_1-1(1).deb and got the following > message:

Re: HELP: dpkg

1997-12-31 Thread TJM
It appears that you've downloaded the file xisp_2.1-1.deb with win95 and ie, which then changed the file name to xisp_2_1-1(1).deb (another ms feature, I guess). You can change the name back to its original with Linux or win95, or download it again and set the name correctly when win95 asks for t

Re: HELP: dpkg

1997-12-31 Thread Martin Bialasinski
"Albert Hurd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried dpkg -i (and cp) on xisp_2_1-1(1).deb and got the following > message: > >syntax error near unexpected token `xisp_2_1-1(1' > > What gives and how can I install the package. Any help very welcome for > this newbie. > I believe this

HELP: dpkg

1997-12-31 Thread Albert Hurd
I tried dpkg -i (and cp) on xisp_2_1-1(1).deb and got the following message: syntax error near unexpected token `xisp_2_1-1(1' What gives and how can I install the package. Any help very welcome for this newbie. Albert Hurd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-07 Thread Britton
I am getting exactly these same errors, and have been since installation. I heard somewhere (I think in an advocacy group) that one version of Debian had some sim link problems that I suspect might be causing this. Mayby the package you were installing is the culprit. > # xman& > [2] 1429 > # xm

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-06 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
first of all, thanks to the people how tried to help me out with this rather odd problem. i followed the suggestions, but without success - as far as up/downgrading is concerned: my system is a rex/bo mix, and the problems seemed to start when i installed libc5 from hamm - i guess that my mixing o

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Igor Grobman
> > That a mistake by the maintainer, and archive maintainer is on vacation, so > > this problem never got corrected. It will be corrected with next release > > of > > libc5, I assume. > > > > > > > > Always with the same error: > > > > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/l

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> That a mistake by the maintainer, and archive maintainer is on vacation, so > this problem never got corrected. It will be corrected with next release of > libc5, I assume. > > > > > Always with the same error: > > > > ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat > > (

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Igor Grobman
> Igor Grobman wrote: > > > > Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download > > it > > from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb > > > > yup, that's what i tried right after my original post - > and i tried it again after reading your r

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Martin . Bialasinski
On 5 Jul, Reto Andreas Bachmann wrote: > in particular though: Which package creates the file > "/usr/X11R6/lib/usr/lib/libc5-compat" ? > $ dpkg -S libc5-compat libc5: /usr/lib/libc5-compat libc5: /lib/libc5-compat $ dpkg -l libc5 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Conf

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Igor Grobman wrote: > > Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it > from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb > yup, that's what i tried right after my original post - and i tried it again after reading your reply - with the same

Re: HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Igor Grobman
Looks like the installation of libc5, an essential package failed. Download it from debian/stable/binary-i386/libs and install with dpkg -i libc5*deb > Need Your Help: > > I was downloading some packages from "stable" so that > I could try to build a custom kernel. While I was > downloading a

HELP!!! dpkg messed up X11 (?)

1997-07-05 Thread Reto Andreas Bachmann
Need Your Help: I was downloading some packages from "stable" so that I could try to build a custom kernel. While I was downloading and installing (with dpkg), I got bored and wanted to play maelstrom - but mealstrom refused to start, same for xtetris. Then dpkg reported it was having problems i