Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022 02:55:04 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: Hello Russell, >I've gotten lazy because I seldom have a problem with Synaptic. IKWYM. Despite Synaptic being looked down on in some quarters, I find it very capable. Especially when it comes to dependency issue resolution. >enoug

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:46:02 -0500 David Wright wrote: Hello David, >While I would generally concur, I would not advise, for example, >performing the monthly firefox upgrade while the browser is running. I've never had issues doing that (admittedly, not with ff, but other browsers); The browse

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 06:46:02PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:38:37 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:24:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > >> I suppose I should have shut down som

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-13 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 06:46:02PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:38:37 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:24:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I suppose I should have shut down some of proces

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:38:37 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:24:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> I suppose I should have shut down some of processes before running > >> Synaptic. > >That shouldn't be ne

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:24:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello, >On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I suppose I should have shut down some of processes before running >> Synaptic. >That shouldn't be necessary. Indeed. It seems more likely that the problems a

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > That occurred to me when I first typed "su", but then I forgot to go > back and try. Now I can sleep tonight without worrying about it. If you want more details (and more options): https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster#Changes >

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:27:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote: The fact that your working directory is a user's (yours?), and ???sbin directories are not in your $PATH suggests you might have become root using "su" and not "su -" or "su --login". Try one of these instead. (The change to su's seman

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-12 Thread gene heskett
On 6/13/22 00:29, David Wright wrote: On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 03:22:29 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: Debian 11 AMD At the end of my weekly UPGRADE session using synaptic, the system hung. I restarted using the hardware RESET button. The system booted and found a number of orphaned nodes.

Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL

2022-06-12 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 03:22:29 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > Debian 11 AMD > > At the end of my weekly UPGRADE session using synaptic, the system > hung. I restarted using the hardware RESET button. The system > booted and found a number of orphaned nodes. > > When I started synaptic a me