Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g

2008-09-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-08-28 03:54:23, schrieb John O'Hagan: > Hi, > > I'm running lenny. > > The power failed on my laptop during a recent upgrade about a week > ago. Don't know if this is why, but attempts to upgrade or install any > new packages since then fail because aptitude (or rather dpkg) chokes > on r

Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g

2008-09-04 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 03:25:44 +, John O'Hagan wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:35:39 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:54:23AM +, John O'Hagan wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > >> > I'm running lenny. > >> > > >> > The power failed on my lap

Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g

2008-09-03 Thread John O'Hagan
Florian Kulzer wrote: >On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:35:39 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:54:23AM +, John O'Hagan wrote: > >> Hi, > >> >> > I'm running lenny. >> > >> > The power failed on my laptop during a recent upgrade about a week >> > ago. Don't know if this is why

Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g

2008-08-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:35:39 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:54:23AM +, John O'Hagan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm running lenny. > > > > The power failed on my laptop during a recent upgrade about a week > > ago. Don't know if this is why, but attempts to upgrade or

Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g

2008-08-28 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:54:23AM +, John O'Hagan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running lenny. > > The power failed on my laptop during a recent upgrade about a week > ago. Don't know if this is why, but attempts to upgrade or install any > new packages since then fail because aptitude (or rather dpk

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:17 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Well, I'm not exactly the world's most experienced systems > administrator - in fact, the term "incompetent amateur" is perhaps > more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for > others. I've been running Etch for so

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 01:17, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Now, you've got to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and then soon >> upgrade from Sarge to Etch. That 2-step process is much slower >> and error-prone than the one-st

Re: upgrades

2002-01-22 Thread Adam Majer
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:03:46PM -0600, MARK wrote: > IMHO DEBIAN LINUX is the best. Red Hat is too hard to upgrade single packages > after an install. Micro$haft Winblows bites. > > I'm an old (40) DOS hacker so when I was turned on to LINUX by a network tech > I was very relieved (from the M

RE: upgrades

2002-01-22 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| connection is not something I can afford, at least not now. Would | it be possible | to tar all of the new/different packages in a realease point so | that I could download one file and untar them in some directory | for use with apt-get off-line? I don't think that this is realisticly feasible.

Re: upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-08 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 02:52, Colin Watson wrote: > It's open but tagged 'woody'. Once dhelp 0.5.5 makes it into woody, this > bug will be closed. Karl, Colin: thanks -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:30:30AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Mario Vukelic wrote: > > This has been going on for a long long time. dhelp was pretty much unmaintained for a long long time, but it's recently acquired a new maintainer who's fixing its bugs. > The bug, or a related one is still open

Re: upgrades in woody: "dhelp_parse: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles"

2001-11-07 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi, > > when I apt-get update and upgrade in woody I get the above error message > for a lot of packages. When a special package is upgraded (I think dhelp > itself, but maybe another part of the help system) I get a _lot_ of > these, obviously when the package builds some kind of database. > >