Re: Update failure

2007-10-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 07:27:15PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 10/20/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OK, so one stock that works, one custom that works, room for a new > > custom to test, and room for a new stock to test. That's room for four > > kernels, their initrds, an

Re: Update failure

2007-10-22 Thread David Fox
On 10/20/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so one stock that works, one custom that works, room for a new > custom to test, and room for a new stock to test. That's room for four > kernels, their initrds, and their modules in lib. So how big a / does Maybe in /boot. But if

Re: Update failure

2007-10-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:26:33PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > OK, so one stock that works, one custom that works, room for a new > custom to test, and room for a new stock to test. That's room for four > kernels, their initrds, and their modules in lib. So how big a / does > that mean if

Re: Update failure

2007-10-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:00:06PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:44:54 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do > > you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the > > on

Re: Update failure

2007-10-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 08:00:06PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:44:54 -0400 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do > > you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only nee

Re: Update failure

2007-10-20 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:44:54 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > adequate for /. How many kernels do you have installed? How many do > you need? Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the > one that currently runs, and room for one to be updated. I u

Re: Update failure

2007-10-20 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:59:19PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h shows below > there is still some space left in / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/redcube-root >

Re: Update failure

2007-10-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:59:19PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Thanks for all the comments. > > Yes, Andrew, you are absolutely correct, I didn't read the output from > aptitude carefully enough, partly because I didn't understand what much of > it meant. So I'm especially grateful for your t

Re: Update failure

2007-10-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:37:14PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Andrew and Johannes, > > My reply of a few hours ago had the wrong subject! Sorry for the mix up. no problem. > > Here is the output copied from aptitude" its amazing how people don't actually read their apt output (not direc

Re: Update failure

2007-10-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:37:14PM -0400, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Unpacking replacement linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- > image-2.6.18-5-amd64_2.6.18 .dfsg.1-13etch4_amd64.deb > (--unpack): > failed

Re: Update failure

2007-10-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Jerrard wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:37 -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Richard, what is the output from the command: df -h > Perhaps / is full not /var? or /boot? At least something is full according to > Unpacking replacement linux

Re: Update failure

2007-10-18 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:37 -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Hi Andrew and Johannes, > > My reply of a few hours ago had the wrong subject! Sorry for the mix > up. > > No Andrew, /var is not full: there is still 2.4GB free out of 2.9GB. > I have pasted the complete output from aptitude below.

Re: Update failure

2007-10-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard, Richard Carter wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but got a similar error. This time > is said "Sub process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1)" Try to log out as ordinary user. Log in as root into tty1 or else. (It could

Re: Update failure

2007-10-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:21:29PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Johannes, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but got a similar error. This time > is said "Sub process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1)" is your /var partition perhaps full? also, more details would be better. so

Re: Update failure

2007-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Carter wrote: > I tried to use the update manager in kde to update > linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd84, which is already running on my system. The > update failed with the message > "/var/cache/apt/archives/linux- > image-2.6.18-5-amd64-2.6.18.dfsg.