Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 Oct 2018 at 10:10:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/08/2018 10:45 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:46:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [snip] > > > It seemed to run OK. The only errors/warnings were related to not being > > > able to reach [http

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/08/2018 10:45 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:46:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] It seemed to run OK. The only errors/warnings were related to not being able to reach [http://deb.debian.org/...]. It reported: "259 packages can be upgraded." and "2

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 03:19:42PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/08/2018 10:45 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:46:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > [snip] > > > > > I stated by running "script", so I have a log. > > > > 1) First things first.

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/08/2018 10:45 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:46:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I stated by running "script", so I have a log. 1) First things first. Install 'screen' utility into stretch. run 'screen' and do everything else there. I browsed the ma

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-08 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 08:46:21AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > No, stay in stretch. > > > > 1) Become root. > > > > 2) Mount buster installation in, say, /mnt. > > > > 3) Classic chroot sequence: > > > > mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc > > mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys > > mount -

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/07/2018 09:26 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 10/07/2018 08:52 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It was recommended that I update to Buster. I started with Debian 9.

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 14:57:10 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/07/2018 02:33 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 19:23 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > >

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 20:12, Linux-Fan wrote: mick crane writes: On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-sto

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/07/2018 02:33 PM, Dominic Knight wrote: On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 19:23 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It was recommended that I update to Buster. I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Joe
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 21:12:39 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > mick crane writes: > > > On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: > >> On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>> Does gparted run from a terminal? >

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Dominic Knight
On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 19:23 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > > > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > > > [MATE

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Linux-Fan
mick crane writes: On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper. I never made a menu entry, it l

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread mick crane
On 2018-10-07 19:23, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Does gparted run from a terminal? It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper. I never made a menu entry, it looks a bit complicate

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > > [MATE desktop] > > I edited sources.list to access online repositor

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 07 October 2018 10:17:10 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/07/2018 08:52 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> It was recommended that I update to Buster. > >> I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > >> [

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > [MATE desktop] > I edited sources.list to access online repository. > I then followed the instructions at > [linuxconfig.org/how-

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 09:17:10AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/07/2018 08:52 AM, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > > > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/07/2018 08:52 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: It was recommended that I update to Buster. I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. [MATE desktop] I edited sources.list to access online repository. I then followe

Re: Problem updating to Buster - gparted effectively MIA

2018-10-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:14:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > [MATE desktop] > I edited sources.list to access online repository. > I then followed the instructions at > [linu

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-31 Thread David Seira
2012/5/30 Chris Bannister : > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:31:03AM +0200, David Seira wrote: >> 2012/5/29 Scott Ferguson : >> > On 18/05/12 17:13, David Seira wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the >> >> "aptitude update" command and the output i

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 09:31:03AM +0200, David Seira wrote: > 2012/5/29 Scott Ferguson : > > On 18/05/12 17:13, David Seira wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the > >> "aptitude update" command and the output is: > >> > >> Des:1 http://ftp.es.deb

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-30 Thread David Seira
2012/5/29 Scott Ferguson : > On 18/05/12 17:13, David Seira wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the >> "aptitude update" command and the output is: >> >> Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [912 B] >> Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-28 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 18/05/12 17:13, David Seira wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the > "aptitude update" command and the output is: > > Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [912 B] > Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en [912

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 08:52:49AM +0200, David Seira wrote: > 2012/5/23 Chris Bannister : > > What does "ls -al /var/lib/apt/lists/" show now? > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31488757 may 18 00:56 > ftp.es.debian.org_debian_dists_squeeze_main_binary-amd64_Packages > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1964287

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread David Seira
> I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 > package. Until then I was getting rather ridiculous error messages from > aptitude, which in no way indicated that absence of bzip2 was the problem. > Just FYI. The bzip2 package was installed before the problems start.

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 09:20:55AM +0200, David Seira wrote: > Yes. I have another servers with the same configuration in another places. > > > Under  "/var/lib/apt/lists/" is where the index files are kept. > > What I'd do is delete those: > > i.e. "rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*" then do apt-get update

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 04:45:47AM -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira wrote: > > > I remove the index files in the directory you said but the > > result is the same: > > I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 > package. Until then I was gett

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread T Elcor
--- On Wed, 5/23/12, David Seira wrote: > I remove the index files in the directory you said but the > result is the same: I solved my recent problem with aptitude (and apt) by installing bzip2 package. Until then I was getting rather ridiculous error messages from aptitude, which in no way in

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-23 Thread David Seira
2012/5/22 Chris Bannister : > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:30:37PM +0200, David Seira wrote: >> Hi Chris, >> >> 2012/5/22 Chris Bannister >> >> The result in english (sorry) is: > [...] >> Get:10 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en [912 >> B] >> 59% [10 Translation-en bz

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 04:30:37PM +0200, David Seira wrote: > Hi Chris, > > 2012/5/22 Chris Bannister > > The result in english (sorry) is: [...] > Get:10 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en [912 B] > 59% [10 Translation-en bzip2 0 B] [Connecting to security.debian.o

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-22 Thread David Seira
Hi Chris, 2012/5/22 Chris Bannister > > > [Please read http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:10:14PM +0200, David Seira wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > As I put in the first post the aptitude update output is: > > For testing purposes I'd like to see the output of

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please read http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:10:14PM +0200, David Seira wrote: > Hi Chris, > As I put in the first post the aptitude update output is: For testing purposes I'd like to see the output of LC=C apt-get update The LC=C is because this is an

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-22 Thread David Seira
Hi Chris, As I put in the first post the aptitude update output is: Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg [912 B] > Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main Translation-en [912 B] > 99% [2 Translation-en bzip2 0] [Esperando las cabeceras] [Esperando las > cabeceras]bzip2:

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-21 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post!] On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:50:03AM +0200, David Seira wrote: > I still having this problem. It seems like a problem with the repository > but I've tried to change it with the same result; I've tried with the UK > and Spain repositories. > > Has anyone the same problems?

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-20 Thread David Seira
> > From: David Seira > > Subject: Re: Problem updating debian 6 > > To: "debian-user" > > Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 2:33 AM > > Hi Andrei, > > I've tried to change the mirror but with the > > same problem. Furthermore, if I try to upg

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-18 Thread T Elcor
--- On Fri, 5/18/12, David Seira wrote: > From: David Seira > Subject: Re: Problem updating debian 6 > To: "debian-user" > Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 2:33 AM > Hi Andrei, > I've tried to change the mirror but with the > same problem. Furthermore, if I try

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-18 Thread David Seira
Hi Andrei, I've tried to change the mirror but with the same problem. Furthermore, if I try to upgrade the system it shows me the next error: E: Failed to download http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/openssl/libssl-dev_0.9.8o-4squeeze13_amd64.deb: The size differs I don't know what is

Re: Problem updating debian 6

2012-05-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 mai 12, 09:13:05, David Seira wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to update and upgrade a debian 6 system. I've run the "aptitude > update" command and the output is: [...] > Anyone know what is the problem? How can I fix it? First I would try with a different mirror. Kind regards, Andrei -

[Solved]Re: problem updating python2.5

2009-09-24 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > On a routine update on my Debian Squeeze system I get the following: > [quote] > running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5... > file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki > file does not exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/wxGl

Re: problem updating etch to lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off the HTML. ] On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 21:48:31 -0500, Jessica Wu wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently updated from etch to lenny but ran into a problem with the > python upgrade. From the error log it appears the fault occurs from > python-central. I had python2.4 and python2.

Re: problem updating etch to lenny

2009-08-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Jessica Wu wrote: Errors were encountered while processing For me I just try different things until I solve the problem, first I would try both apt-get and aptitude -f install if that did not work then I would remove these packages, python-central pymacs python-cairo python-enthought

Re: Problem updating doodled

2006-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 23:58:34 +1000, Michael Lightfoot wrote: > On Wednesday 31 May 2006 08:36, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I would first try to find out why the pre-removal script cannot stop the > > daemon. Is the daemon running at all? You can check it with > > > > ps -ef | grep [d]oodled >

Re: Problem updating doodled

2006-05-31 Thread Michael Lightfoot
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 08:36, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I would first try to find out why the pre-removal script cannot stop the > daemon. Is the daemon running at all? You can check it with > > ps -ef | grep [d]oodled > > If the daemon is not running you can try the start/stop actions yourself >

Re: Problem updating

2006-05-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 08:08:49 +1000, Michael Lightfoot wrote: > I'm using testing. > The following script error occurs trying to update doodled. This prevents > Synaptic from completing the rest of the package updates. I then run > aptitude which "recovers" from the error and completes the u

Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-24 Thread Ric Otte
To explain my puzzle a bit more, I thought that when I ran update-menus, the script in /etc/menu-menthods/fluxbox would update the fluxbox menus. That is what doesn't appear to be happening. Thanks, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-24 Thread Ric Otte
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:51:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 23 May 2005 09:49, Ric Otte wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or > > I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and > > ran update-menus. T

Re: problem updating menus in fluxbox

2005-05-23 Thread mike
On Monday 23 May 2005 09:49, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that fluxbox (.9.12-1) doesn't seem to update its menus (or > I am doing something wrong). I have added some menus to /etc/menu and > ran update-menus. The new menus show up on other windowmanagers, but > don't under fluxbox. > > Th

Re: Re: problem updating postgresql package

2003-12-12 Thread Martin Hofheinz
Hi, i am encountering the same problems as described in this thread. following your advice to alter the preinst script, i receive this output: (my locale settings are german) # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.2r1-5_i386.deb (Lese Datenbank ... 17012 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind

Re: problem updating postgresql package

2003-09-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 00:35, Malcolm Warren wrote: > Got the following message updating postgresql to 7.3.2 > > Any ideas? > > Unpacking postgresql (from .../postgresql_7.3.2r1-5_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql_7.3.2r1-5_i386.deb (--unpack): > subpro

Re: problem updating to perl 5.6.0

2001-04-10 Thread Chris Howells
From: Yang Shouxun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > How can I update my system to Perl 5.6.0-20? Perl-5.005 was installed. > There is an evil dependency circularity that prevents me from upgrading > the system: debconf depends on perl-5.005 and the like. It's a bloody annoyace to do so, and pretty awkward.

Re: Problem updating to woody from stable

2000-11-25 Thread Kevin C. Smith
Try installing perl-5.6 before upgrade. apt-get update apt-get install perl-5.6 apt-get dist-upgrade If I'm remembering correctly that worked for me. Kevin On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 10:57:40AM -0800, Vaibhav Goel wrote: > Hi all: > > I recently tried apt-get upgrading my stable distribution to w

Re: problem updating to potato

2000-02-07 Thread Ron Rademaker
I had the a similar problem (util-linux and shellutils, not clock) what I did was manually run dpkg -f overwrite -i Now all works fine. Ron == MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU ===

Re: problem updating to potato

2000-02-04 Thread Erik Blaufuss
I had the same problem. Try removing the "clock" package first. Works fine after that. --Erik On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote: > When trying to update to potato I get the following error: > > (Reading database ... 20980 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking util-lin