Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-03 Thread David Fox
On 1/2/08, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You didn't say what libraries they are or what packages they come from > (use dpkg -S to find the latter out). But on my system the only 64-bit dpkg -S /lib64 returns libc6-amd64 for all the libraries in /lib64. So I ended up removing tha

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:26:18PM -0800, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 12/31/07, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > snip some stuff > > > > I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit > > libs. My whole system is running as 32-bit. >

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread David Fox
On 12/31/07, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip some stuff > I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit > libs. My whole system is running as 32-bit. MIne too (I don't do AMD64 because I don't have an AMD64, sniff). But I also see 64 bit stuff in /lib64.

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2008-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/08 11:23, charlie derr wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: >> [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. >>> you're just chicken :-] >> >> Real Men

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2008-01-02 Thread charlie derr
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. Yeah, I

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread charlie derr
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-01-02 17:42 +0100, charlie derr wrote: After continuing through a few more upgrades (actually, I got the word that I should now be using "safe-upgrade", so was using that when I remembered), I'm now almost fully up to date (kde wants to uninstall itself when I try to

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-01-02 17:42 +0100, charlie derr wrote: > After continuing through a few more upgrades (actually, I got the word > that I should now be using "safe-upgrade", so was using that when I > remembered), I'm now almost fully up to date (kde wants to uninstall > itself when I try to upgrade kdebas

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread charlie derr
Thanks again for explaining everything. After continuing through a few more upgrades (actually, I got the word that I should now be using "safe-upgrade", so was using that when I remembered), I'm now almost fully up to date (kde wants to uninstall itself when I try to upgrade kdebase, so I'm pu

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:09:53AM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > aptitude-create-state-bundle doesn't apparently exist on my system -- was > this a relatively recent addition to aptitude? (it may have been a year or > slightly longer since I've upgraded aptitude)

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread charlie derr
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:59:16PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: Daniel Burrows wrote: It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 linux-gate.so.1 =

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-02 Thread charlie derr
I missed this message until just now, thanks so much for all the info I snipped out, I'm going to try to understand it now. aptitude-create-state-bundle doesn't apparently exist on my system -- was this a relatively recent addition to aptitude? (it may have been a year or slightly longer sin

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2008-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: [snip] Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME terminal window. you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. (i'm stil

Re: upgrading in sid

2008-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 18:34:55 -0500, charlie derr wrote: [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ldconfig -pNX | grep 'libz\.so' libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 libz.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/lib

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 15:48, charlie derr wrote: > [snip] > >> Of course, I would do all this from the (real) console, not a GNOME >> terminal window. > > you're just chicken :-] Real Men use the console. I'm not sure what Real Women use. > (i'm still in t

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:34:55PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I'm not aware of ever intentionally doing anything to install any 64bit libs. > My whole system is running as 32-bit. Note that this has nothing to do with 64-bit libraries. The "64" in gzopen64 me

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 18:34:55 -0500, charlie derr wrote: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ldconfig -pNX | grep 'libz\.so' > libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 > libz.so.1 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 > libz.so (libc6) => /usr/local/lib/libz.so > li

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:02:01PM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > You may want to check if anything else has been placed in > /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib, and what the timestamps are (run > "ls -l /usr/local/bin /usr/local/lib"), as any other files in there >

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:59:16PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: >> It would be interesting to know what ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 says. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7fb7000)

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
ii zlib1g1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-8 compression library - runtime [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ ldd /usr/bin/gconftool-2 | grep libz libz.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7be) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/v

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 16:31:37 -0500, charlie derr wrote: > Thanks much for the help. >> >> gzopen64 should be defined in /usr/lib/libz.so.1; something is wrong >> with this on your system. Post the output of the following commands: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt$ dpkg -l zlib1g [...

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Charlie, In this kind of situation, I would "# apt-get --purge remove" the problematic package(s), then "# apt-get update" and try again. as Daniel and Florian have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, my problem is with libxml2 being completely borken at the moment (I think) and aptitude

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Thanks much for the help. gzopen64 should be defined in /usr/lib/libz.so.1; something is wrong with this on your system. Post the output of the following commands: dpkg -l zlib1g ldd /usr/bin/gconftool-2 | grep libz ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 | grep libz nm -D /usr/lib/libz.so.1 | grep gzopen

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: Errors were encountered while processing: The interesting thing is

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 12:00:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/31/07 11:42, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > I don't know any reason that mixing apt-get and aptitude should cause > > problems, particularly this pr

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 11:42, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: The following packages will be upgraded: gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mi

Re: gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/31/07 09:15, charlie derr wrote: > http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie > > > It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the > list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still possibly >

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 08:01:32PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >>> The following packages will be upgraded: >>> gnome-session libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-common shared-mime-info >>> 4 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 795 not upgraded. >>> Need

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:28:48PM -0500, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: > > Errors were encountered while processing: The interesting thing is why these packages

gnome won't uninstall because I messed up dpkg by mixing and matching apt-get and aptitude incorrectly (used to be Re: upgrading in sid)

2007-12-31 Thread charlie derr
http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/door/SidGnomeRefusingToDie It seemed like there was too much output there to want to burden the list with it all (but I thought someone clueful might still possibly catch something I haven't) my working assumption at this point is that last night either manua

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 20:29:09 -0500, charlie derr wrote: > charlie derr wrote: [...] >> delete:~# dpkg -l libxml2 gconf2 | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' >> ii gconf2 2.20.1-2 >> ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-3 [...] >> delete:~# /usr/bin/python -V >> Python 2.4.4 That looks OK to me; I have the

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread charlie derr
charlie derr wrote: The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?) It is better to use "aptitude install -f" if aptitude is your package manager of choice. Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread charlie derr
The above is in response to apt-get -f install (what used to work in the past for fixing issues, maybe that's my mistake?) It is better to use "aptitude install -f" if aptitude is your package manager of choice. Anyway, it seems that you have a problem running update-gconf-defaults, which

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 17:28:48 -0500, charlie derr wrote: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: > > > Setting up debhelper (5.0.63) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: [...] > So I fiddled a bit without succes

Re: upgrading in sid

2007-12-30 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: > It's been a while, but I just attempted a massive upgrade (executing > "aptitude upgrade") and ended up with: (...) > E: I wasn't able to locate file for the desktop-base package. This might > mean you need to manually fix this pa