Re: Cisco should be held up as a laughingstock (was: Re: Filtering "UserAgent:" [was: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?])

2019-10-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:38:42AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, October 17, 2019 05:25:46 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:08:34AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225 > > > > Sorry. T

Cisco should be held up as a laughingstock (was: Re: Filtering "UserAgent:" [was: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?])

2019-10-17 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, October 17, 2019 05:25:46 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:08:34AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225 > > Sorry. That link forces you through Twitter. Here are better > ones: > > https://old.lwn.

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Art Sackett wrote: > > > As for transparent proxies, etc. what I've got here is > > ... egg on my face. Never mind... We've all been there. Please tell us what, exactly, for the benefit of the archives and future searchers. -dsr-

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Art Sackett
> As for transparent proxies, etc. what I've got here is ... egg on my face. Never mind... -- Art Sackett http://www.artsackett.com/

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Art Sackett (2019-10-17 16:01:54) > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:54:36AM -, Curt wrote: > > > By what mental procedure did you arrive at that workaround? > > I was able to retrieve the various InRelease files with any web > browser and with wget, but I was not able to do so with apt. S

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Art Sackett
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:54:36AM -, Curt wrote: > By what mental procedure did you arrive at that workaround? I was able to retrieve the various InRelease files with any web browser and with wget, but I was not able to do so with apt. So, I cranked up tcpdump and grabbed one of those files

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:15:21PM -, Curt wrote: [...] > Still, I don't get why a Debian apt repository would require some recent > browser user agent string to permit ingress; something seems to be > missing from this picture. Definitely. My bet at the moment is on a (ISP?) transparent p

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:15:21PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-10-17, wrote: [...] > > IMO this sounds a bit too harsh [...] > I didn't mean it to be harsh, sorry. I only meant that that bug is the > OP's bug report concerning the very bug in this thread and not > some reference to a known [..

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-17, wrote: > > >> > This is Debian bug #942478: >> This is you and your bug. > > IMO this sounds a bit too harsh. The OP seems to be seeing this > behaviour -- perhaps it's not an apt (or a Debian mirror) problem, > but it'd be nice to know... I didn't mean it to be harsh, sorry. I o

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-17 09:54, Curt wrote: On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett wrote: For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're having, the workaround is to create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: Acquire { http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_

Filtering "UserAgent:" [was: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?]

2019-10-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 11:08:34AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19507225 Sorry. That link forces you through Twitter. Here are better ones: https://old.lwn.net/Articles/784758/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-botches-f

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 08:54:36AM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett wrote: > > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're > > having, the workaround is to create the file > > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: > > > > Acquire > > { > >

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread Curt
On 2019-10-16, Art Sackett wrote: > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're > having, the workaround is to create the file > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: > > Acquire > { > http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/2010

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-17 Thread tomas
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 05:55:55PM -0600, Art Sackett wrote: > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're > having, the workaround is to create the file > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: > > Acquire > { > http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-16 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:55:55 -0600 Art Sackett wrote: > For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're > having, the workaround is to create the file > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: > > Acquire > { > http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_6

Re: 'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-16 Thread Art Sackett
For any who've found this thread by searching for the problem they're having, the workaround is to create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99useragent and populate it with: Acquire { http::User-Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"; }; This changes apt's HTTP

'apt update' failure, me or repository?

2019-10-15 Thread Art Sackett
Greetings: I've been seeing 'apt update' failures since yesterday: # apt update Err:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable InRelease Connection failed [IP: 128.61.240.89 80] Err:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease Connection failed [IP: 151.10

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-10 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 12:59:38PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2010 12:34:13 Fernando B. Scussel wrote: > > http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/fscussel/Untitled.jpg > > Ugh. Does copy and paste not work for you? It would be much nicer if that > text was in the em

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert Brockway wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may not reboot cleanly until they are resolved. Well said. Rebootin

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-03 Thread Fernando B. Scussel
I couldn't copy cause I couldn't install gpm cause nothing works so I just gave up. Thanks for everyone who contributed. System got fucked =/ -- From: "Jimmy Johnson" Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 3:36 PM To: Subject: Re:

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-03 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 3 May 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may not reboot cleanly until they are resolved. Well said. Rebooting in the middle of a dist-

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 03 May 2010 13:36:07 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > From you output it looks like your 'perl-base' is scheduled to be > > upgraded. You should try installing the new version of that package with > > dpkg and then retrying your apt-get/aptitude run. > > It's wort

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: From you output it looks like your 'perl-base' is scheduled to be upgraded. You should try installing the new version of that package with dpkg and then retrying your apt-get/aptitude run. It's worth a shot, depending of if dpkg has not been borked, 'dpkg -i p

Re: apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 03 May 2010 12:34:13 Fernando B. Scussel wrote: > After doing a apt-get dist-update and restarting the pc because of some > errors If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may n

apt-get dist-update failure - can't boot

2010-05-03 Thread Fernando B. Scussel
After doing a apt-get dist-update and restarting the pc because of some errors I'm getting the problem as show in the image. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/fscussel/Untitled.jpg can't dist-update and system is not working correctly, many missing libraries which I don't know how to rein

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

Update failure

2007-10-22 Thread Richard Carter
Thanks Andrew for the man references. I'll read them carefully before I do anything. And, yes, I will back up! Thanks also to Andrei, Celejar and Doug for the discussion of space needed in /root. My conclusion is that it's better to have a bit too much than a bit too little. Richard

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

Update failure

2007-10-20 Thread Richard Carter
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 tutorial. Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h

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.

Update failure

2007-10-18 Thread Richard Carter
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. Johannes, when I log in as root via tty1 and run aptitude I get the out

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

Update failure

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Carter
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)" Richard

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.

Update failure

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Carter
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.1-13etch4-amd64.deb failed in buffer-write(fd)(10.ret=1)" How should I respond

Re: Re: KPM update failure

2005-09-14 Thread paul schwartz
p ran out of room" >and follow the instructions on one of the many hits that will result. > >-Roberto > >-- >Roberto C. Sanchez > Thanks for the hint! I had Googled for "debian kpm update failure dynamic memory" but that pulled in nothing relevant. So I came here.

Re: KPM update failure

2005-09-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 01:58:52PM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I tried to update the KPM list [running woody] and got > the following error > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room > E: Error occured while processing xvfb (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /

KPM update failure

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Schwartz
I tried to update the KPM list [running woody] and got the following error Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occured while processing xvfb (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_.._project_experimental_main_b

KDE Update failure

2004-03-22 Thread martin welsh
This is on a machine loaded with Xandros2 using Xandros Networks to update KDE. I am on a time limited dialup modem and update the dependencies one by one to ensure that I get everything in during my alloted time windows. I loaded the dependencies in reverse alphabetical order before loading

Tomcat update -> failure

2002-01-11 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Problem with Apache(1.3.22)+Tomcat(3.3) after update: I have a working 2.2.17 system, and am running Apache+Tomcat. Having not used it for awhile, or updated in 4-6 months, I did an apt-get install" of tomcat and apache, to get the most current versions. It did an update, and now it is broken.  -

Re: Library update failure continues...

1999-04-14 Thread Curt Howland
I had thought I copied the list. A fine individual named Ulf yesterday said "just delete the failed symlink." I did, and it's all working fine now. Many thanks, though. That would at least had gotten deselect and the other failing software working, but the package dependencies would still have

Re: Library update failure continues...

1999-04-14 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Curt Howland: > My bug report got no action, since the suggested package to "solve" the > library problem will not install without the missing file. I don't know where the file comes from (my system has libdb.so.2), but if you need a file out of a package, you can always "ar x" and "tar x

[Fwd: Re: Library update failure continues...]

1999-04-13 Thread Curt Howland
Many, many thanks Ulf, deleting the file allowed the fixed libc6 to install itself ("skipping" may just seem like an error, but the effected package stillfailed to install.) and dpkg ran without the: ian# dselect dselect: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefin

Re: Library update failure continues...

1999-04-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Library update failure continues... Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:41:21AM -0700 In reply to:Curt Howland Quoting Curt Howland([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hail and well met fine Debian fellows. > > Unfortunately, I have found (for the second time) that > I cannot

Library update failure continues...

1999-04-13 Thread Curt Howland
Hail and well met fine Debian fellows. Unfortunately, I have found (for the second time) that I cannot keep up with the debian-user list, so please address any replies to me personally as well as to the list. Several months ago, I tried to update to the "stable" distribution.It was more broken th