Re: Update-Manager has fubar entry, can't find from description given

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main > > updates > > Assuming that this is all on one line, "updates" is a bogus keyword. > You probably want something like: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/de

Re: Update-Manager has fubar entry, can't find from description given

2015-04-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:37:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Update-manager's little triangular icon won't go away. If I can > copy/paste its output: > > But I cannot do anything except a screenshot. Why do the gui writers > saddle us with such broken software? Any numbe

Re: Update Manager frozen...

2014-12-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/12/2014, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > ... for some days. I see on the update-manager icon on gnome-panel it has > got 47 updates, but when I load the Update Manager window it always > freezes... :( > > I've got Debian Squeeze x86 with this sources.list -> > I have Debian 6 amd64 LTS, and have f

Re: Update Manager frozen...

2014-12-24 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade did the trick! Thanks for the Debian forums! :) 2014-12-24 13:12 GMT+01:00 Gábor Hársfalvi : > ... for some days. I see on the update-manager icon on gnome-panel it has > got 47 updates, but when I load the Update Manager window it always > freezes... :( > > I've got D

Re: Update Manager

2012-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:12:28 -0700, owens wrote: Please, no html... thanks. > Running Debian Stable with Gnome. Today I attempted to due a regular > update using update manager. 1. System seemed to boot normally > 2. Root authorization of the update manager normal 3. Message "A fatal > error

Re: Update Manager-SOLVED

2012-06-12 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: ow...@netptc.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 6/12/2012 4:12:28 PM Subject: Update Manager Running Debian Stable with Gnome. Today I attempted to due a regular update using update manager. 1. System seemed to boot normally 2. Root authorizat

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:23:24 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > On 11/12/2010, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Thank you Patrick. > > On a casual browse saw Cameleon had also responded. FWIW here are the > things requested. Your filtering method is too agressive. > $ sudo aptitude update (...) > squeez

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 11/12/2010, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > For what little it's worth, I'm seeing exactly the same behavior (on a > regularly updated 'testing' system). Thank you Patrick. On a casual browse saw Cameleon had also responded. FWIW here are the things requested. $ sudo aptitude update [sudo] pass

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
2010/12/11 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, >       Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update > manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I > update the system using > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y > > Of course with the recent discu

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:40:11 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update > manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I update > the system using > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y Better if y

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Addition at bottom :- 2010/12/11 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, >       Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update > manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I > update the system using > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y > > Of cours

Re: update manager wants admin password

2010-12-06 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-12-05 a las 17:27 -0500, John Lindsay escribió: (resending to the list) > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:20:33 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: >> >> >>> All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the >>> update manager icon --- >>> >> >> (...) >> >> I

Re: update manager wants admin password

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:20:33 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: > All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the > update manager icon --- (...) I always get asked for root password when there are updates available in the update manager icon. If you get a "keyring unlock" messag

Re: update manager

2009-09-15 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:18:47 +0200 claudio wrote: > update manager > > E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with > MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, > E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di status non possono es

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-25 Thread Barclay, Daniel
John Lindsay wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> John >>> >> >> >> Hi John, >> Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not >> start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore >> "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. >> T

Replying to the list (Was Re: Update manager)

2009-02-24 Thread Daryl Styrk
John, I see you are using Thunderbird as am I. Assuming your using the 2 pane view with the preview pane, you can easily click the drop down + just to the left of the subject to reveal additional header information and you should see the list's debian-user@lists.debian.org address.. You shou

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread John Lindsay
Thierry Chatelet wrote: John Hi John, Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. Thierry My apologies to the group. I did

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> > John Hi John, Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi, first: please don't reply to mails to this list if you don't answer to them. This is annyoing for a lot of people and your mail might go unnoticed by people who are able to give good answers to your questions. John Lindsay: > Is there a problem with the update manager or the sites from which

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-01 18:16, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > * I don't know the details about it, I just saw the posting about a week > ago and thought "huh that's interesting" and went on my way. Sorry for > not keeping the link. I will look for it again and if I f

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:06:01PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have the same issue on my login. I run Lenny, but I don't know when new > updates are available. When I log in as guest, or any other login it gives me > that orange ball that says there are updates available. I must have turn

RE: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to >be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange >box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can >be updated, and it handles the updating. > >On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have >something

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 1 2008, michael wrote: > > Yeah, but every day I have minor things to update on the other > > machine, but nothing on this one. And if I go to Synaptic, as > > I did a few minutes ago, I learn that I have 122M worth of > > updates to get through > > > > So clearly I think there's so

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread David Staer
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can > be updated, and it handles the updating. > > On a new Lenny install, this is not

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:12 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > > > be the Gnome update manager running; I regul

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > > box that pops up on my panel that tells me w

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can > be updated, and it handles the updating. > >

Re: update-manager-solved

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue February 26 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ok, I get different output when I do an: > aptitude update > apt-get update > update-manager > > I think maybe I am unable to do updates right now. Here is the output of > each of those commands: > # aptitude reinstall update-manager > Reading packa

Re: OT linux smart, was Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-03-12 Thread Joe Hart
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:05:31AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: >> Default User wrote: >>> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >>> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >>> available updates. Among them w

OT linux smart, was Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-03-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:05:31AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > Default User wrote: > >I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > >K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > >available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the descrip

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:44:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > > sud

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:48:25AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > You were right and I was wrong about directories (I've ceratinly seen > those 'permission denied' du messages). But since your message > mentioned files in addition to directories, I carelessly fired off my > response :). So in conclusion:

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > > sudo

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > > > Won't they have a hard ti

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:52:11 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote: > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a nor

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > Won't they have a hard time with directories and files that are not > readable by the normal user?

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote: > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a normal user. The reason being, it needs to descend into directories to gather usage infor

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:47:37PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600 > Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! > > > > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matchi

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:16 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > libc6-amd64 is part of the base system (for no particularly good reason > but all it uses is some disk space), so you probably already had it > installed. Yes, I noticed that shortly after my recent install onto a l

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600 Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! > > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matching > libc64*." Since "sudo dpkg -l" returns a list of several hundred (a

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-15 Thread Tim Wescott
Default User wrote: I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems". Perhaps

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Default User wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:03 -0600, Default User wrote: >> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >> available updates. Amon

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-14 Thread Default User
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:03 -0600, Default User wrote: > I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description > states is a 64-bit libra

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: > Default User wrote: >> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >> available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the desc

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
Default User wrote: > I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description > states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems". >