Re: Aptitude hangs machine -- problem solved

2008-09-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11AM -0400, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: >> I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny >> Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-09-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shachar Or wrote: > Don't you two mean dpkg --configure -a ? Yes, "--configure" is correct. This is my error. "--configure" is one of the actions the dpkg command requires in order to run. In my original post to the list I confused "dpkg --configu

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread Shachar Or
On Friday 15 August 2008 02:55, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > > I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny > > Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as > > it should have. > > > > Soon af

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11AM -0400, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny > Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as > it should have. > > Soon after installation I wanted to

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny > Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as > it should have. > > Soon after installation I wanted to upgrade the installed packages.

Re: Aptitude hangs machine

2008-08-14 Thread joseph lockhart
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because of this lack of success, I am unable to upgrade or > install any > packages in this laptop. Is there a way to get out of this > catch-22 > situation, and consequently upgrade tzdata successfully, > and upgrade and > install