Adding this up here as a quick read: If this was installation via
debs, I'm out of the conversation. If it was about untarring [zipped
files] and you can repeatedly reproduce the issue now that you have
seen this, PLEASE don't share the package name(s) publicly. They could
be... dissected and then
On 7/21/21, Tixy wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>>
>> frank@fedora ~$ stat /
>>File: /
>>Size: 4096Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
>> Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 2 Li
On 7/21/21 12:24 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
frank@fedora ~$ stat /
File: /
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 2 Links: 18
Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:57 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:39:49PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
>
> > > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: (0/root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank)
>
> > Actually, access 555 means everyone can Read and Execute, but nobody can
> > Update.
> >
> > R
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:39:49PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: (0/root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank)
> Actually, access 555 means everyone can Read and Execute, but nobody can
> Update.
>
> Root usually overrides that, which could explain why it still works.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:12 PM Frank McCormick
wrote:
> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick <
> debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote:
> >> Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye.
> >>
> >>
> >> Setting
On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick
> > wrote:
> > > Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye.
> > >
> > >
> > > Setting up systemd (24
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> frank@fedora ~$ stat /
> File: /
> Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
> Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 2 Links: 18
> Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank)
On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick
wrote:
Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye.
Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / →
/run during canonicalization of /run. Detect
On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick
wrote:
> Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye.
>
>
> Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / →
> /run during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition
> / → /run during
Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye.
Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / →
/run during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition /
→ /run during canonicalization of /run/lock. Detected unsafe path
transition /
On 09/22/17 22:42, D. R. Evans wrote:
I just upgraded my main desktop system (64-bit) from jessie to stretch, and
there seems to be several problems, ...
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/09/msg00828.html
David
D. R. Evans wrote on 09/22/2017 11:42 PM:
> I just upgraded my main desktop system (64-bit) from jessie to stretch, and
> there seems to be several problems, but all probably related and caused by a
> single issue somehow related to the kernel; but I don't have any idea how to
> move forward.
Rebo
I just upgraded my main desktop system (64-bit) from jessie to stretch, and
there seems to be several problems, but all probably related and caused by a
single issue somehow related to the kernel; but I don't have any idea how to
move forward.
Following the upgrade:
1. the expected kernel version
Hi
jpff wrote:
> 1) Why will vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 not load (says loading and the does
> nothing for over 30mins) when vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 does load?
>
don't know - I had same issue
In my case I found out that initrd was broken. I still have to unpack the
initrd copy /sbin/switch_root and p
On 09/20/17 08:32, jpff wrote:
I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as
it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. ...
While some people succeed at major version upgrades, the few times I
have attempted it resulted in breakage, frustration, and lots of wasted
I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as
it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. I understand this
needs to be done in two stages, wheezy->jessie->stretch, but I still
need advice as I cannot find out the solution to my problem.
I tried upgrading from Wheezy t
On 18/04/12 02:42 PM, hvw59601 wrote:
Frank McCormick wrote:
On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start
wit
Frank McCormick wrote:
On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start
with digit update-initramfs:
Generating /b
On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote:
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start
with digit update-initramfs:
Generating /boot/initrd.img-v dpkg: w
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start
with digit update-initramfs:
Generating /boot/initrd.img-v dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax:
version
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 16:24:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> >>This issue is because the new udev requires a> .31 kernel with
> >>sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so d
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 17:07:09 Nick Douma wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:44:12PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:44:12PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > >> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> >>> This issue is because the new udev requires a> .31 kerne
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
>>> This issue is because the new udev requires a> .31 kernel with
>>> sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so
On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
This issue is because the new udev requires a> .31 kernel with
sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This
means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze k
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> This issue is because the new udev requires a > .31 kernel with
> sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This
> means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade
> udev and proceed with
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> This issue is because the new udev requires a > .31 kernel with
> sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This
> means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade
> udev and proc
This issue is because the new udev requires a > .31 kernel with
sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This
means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade
udev and proceed with the "updgrade".
--
Jordan Metzmeier
I just tried to upgrade my Lenny installation to Squeeze using the following
method:
I changed my sources.list from
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates
On 2010-03-23 10:32, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
[snip]
Read the manpage - In a nutshell:
upgrade Deprecated
safe-upgradeUpgrade listed/all packages to newest version, don't
remove packages
"don't remove packages"
That's why OP is getting the failure. cvs and cvsnt c
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 15:25 +, John O Laoi wrote:
> > Why the mixed system?
> Apologies, I am using Squeeze. The Lenny CDs are commented out.
Important information - make sure to mention it next time.
> > cvsnt conflicts with cvs. You can't have both at the same time.
> Should I remove o
>>
>> The following is my sources.list:
>> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>> #
>> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST
>> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main
>>
>> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST
>> Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main
On 2010-03-23 08:57, John O Laoi wrote:
Hello,
I am using Lenny.
When I try to upgrade, this is what happens:
# aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
[snip]
Resolving dependencies...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 13:57 +, John O Laoi wrote:
> # aptitude safe-upgrade
[...]
> cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12 is installed.
[...]
> Any ideas?
I assume that aptitude needs to remove a package in order to satisfy
other packages (cvsnt) dependencies/conflicts. Try "full-upgrade
Hello,
I am using Lenny.
When I try to upgrade, this is what happens:
# aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Hey all
An upgrade on sid on 12/18 as me stumped. The bootup of that
partition hangs at "USBHID 2.6" . Have tried on 2 different kernels
and both just stop.
A testing upgrade on 12/17 and another on 12/19 boot but have a
number of programs failing to start. Clanv, Dovecot, atd, and fir
Hello,
I've recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch (the full monty, I'm now running
a 2.6 kernel) and my mail check applet has gone away, and the evolution
package is still marked conspicuously as a sarge package -
ic evolution 2.0.4-2sarge1 The groupware suite
When I tried to download t
I tried upgrading the kernel today on my machine and have a problem
that is very similar to about a year ago... that I never completely
figured-out.
I think the problem I'm having is the same as before-- and it's described here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg03029.html
I d
I'm now trying to work out why
apt-get install libx11-dev
results in apt wanting to delete a large number of X related
packages...
I noted that 'gnome' was one of the packages to be removed
rather then upgraded to the latest version, so I tried
to force an upgrade to see if there was some
I just did a dist-upgrade in testing and ended up unable to proceed or
back up with the install, and key system services (e.g., DNS) not
running.
If this should happen to affect you, I finally worked around it by
doing(*)
apt-get -remove libffi libgwrap-runtime0-dev g-wrap gnucash
The upgrade
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:25:41 -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time
> > to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the
> > dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file
>
[Bastian Venthur]
> Looks like there is still something left to do for the user after this
> step. Eg, on my machine KDM did not start up automatically anymore, as
> well as WLAN. Those are two things I encountered directly and are
> probably easy to fix, but I'm quite uncertain if there is someth
[Kevin Mark]
> I thought that 'reinstall' seems very time consuming and thought
> that there may be a diffent way to do it. Would this work for
> (most|all)? cheers,
Yes, I believe so. So the latest incarnation of the script to fix
this problem uses this apporach. It is in sysv-rc version
2.86.
Hi Petter,
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>
> In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the
> update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it
> would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks
> existed
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time
> to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the
> dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file
> before this morning.
>
> sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-
Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time
to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the
dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file
before this morning.
sed -n "/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p"
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Those with packages being broken from this bug can fix it by using
> 'apt-get --reinstall install package' on the affected packages. A
> quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in
> /etc/init.d/.
>
> for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|so
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in
> /etc/init.d/.
This way proved to be too quick, trying to reinstall removed but not
purged packages with init.d scripts left behind in /etc/init.d/. I
recommend using something like this instead, to only rei
In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the
update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it
would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks
existed, and add them if they were missing. This broke all packages
being upgraded after the new
Thanks, Nicos.
Unfortunately, the new initscripts wants libc6 >= 2.3.2.
I tried to manually mount devpts but the problem remained.
Will 2.6 and stable just not jive? I'm ok sticking with 2.4.27 if
that's the case, I just need to get away from 2.4.19 because the xfs
patch is no longer available t
On Wednesday November 3 2004 23:34, Aaron Thoreson wrote:
> After an upgrade from 2.4.19 stable to 2.6.9 custom (maybe too
> ambitious?) I've lost the ability to ssh into the upgraded box.
>
> auth.log is reporting
> error: openpty: No such file or directory
> error: session_pty_req: session 0 allo
Hello,
I've seen this about, but not been able to find satisfactory resolution.
After an upgrade from 2.4.19 stable to 2.6.9 custom (maybe too
ambitious?) I've lost the ability to ssh into the upgraded box.
auth.log is reporting
error: openpty: No such file or directory
error: session_pty_req: se
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:30 +0100, . . wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually
> with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does
> not upgrade anything. It gives:
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree...
Hello '. .'!
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:18:30AM +0100, . . wrote:
I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually
with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does
not upgrade anything. It gives:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree...
Hi,
I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually
with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does
not upgrade anything. It gives:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed
Nick,
>> When I tried insmod 8139too (the module for the network card), I get a
>> number of unresolved symbol errors.
>
>What happens if you 'modprobe 8139too'?
That one made me think - the error indicated that it could not find the
hardware.
Did an lspci and noticed that the kernel had not det
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030826 10:27]:
linux-2.4 >
> When I tried insmod 8139too (the module for the network card), I get a
> number of unresolved symbol errors.
What happens if you 'modprobe 8139too'?
> Any ideas?
Using insmod does nothing to sort out module dependencies. Usi
Hi all,
I am fairly new to Debian, but have used Mandrake and Redhat for a couple
of years.
I have had a Debian Woody box running for a few months running the stock
2.2.20-idepci kernel, and decided it was time to upgrade.
The box is a AMD XP 1800 with 256Mb DDR266 RAM.
I ran:
apt-get install
On 2 Jun 2003 stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency
> Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:51:15PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:47:54AM -0400, stan wrote:
> > What can I do to fix this?
>
> You can try apt-get -f install or you can get aptitude, hit g, find
> the package marked in red and purge (hit _) hit, and then hit g to Go
> fin
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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:47:54AM -0400, stan wrote:
> What can I do to fix this?
You can try apt-get -f install or you can get aptitude, hit g, find
the package marked in red and purge (hit _) hit, and then hit g to Go
finish the job.
Let us know w
Just when I thought things were about to get back to working on my
"testing" amchines, I ran into this on one of them:
Script started on Mon Jun 2 09:38:12 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done
Buildin
Hi All
I run an ABIT KT7A-Raid Mainboard with two Segate 40gig disks connected
and striped with raid0. I have recently installed debian from the 3.0 ISO
using the 2.4.18-bf24.4 Kernel.
The system works fine, but of course I am not satisfied with the kernel,
and I wish to configure and upg
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:06:55PM -0500, dman wrote:
> The 'upgrade' action will not :
> o remove packages
> o install new packages
> o install a package marked as 'hold' with "dpkg --set-selections"
... and, to complete this explanation, the 'dist-upgrade' action may be
closer
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:30:07PM +0100, steve downes wrote:
| Just done my usual apt-get update, apt-get upgrade & 2 of my machines
| have "kept back" a number of upgrades without explanation. Any ideas
| why this is or where I can look to find out. Had a hunt through the
| log files to no effect
Just done my usual apt-get update, apt-get upgrade & 2 of my machines
have "kept back" a number of upgrades without explanation. Any ideas
why this is or where I can look to find out. Had a hunt through the
log files to no effect.
The kept back packages are:-
abiword afterstep gettext gimp1.2 ini
Does everyone who upgrades have snags with install-info? I received an email
when I posted a similar inquiry some months ago, that someone had never had
such a problem. But especially when I am doing an update/upgrade after a long
interval, with, say 200MB of files (sid), over several years I
I'm trying to do apt-get dist-upgrade with the following sources.list:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free
I get the error:
Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ...
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configur
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:26:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote:
> apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message
> perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3.
> attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message.
> I installed libc6 from /var/cache
apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message
perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3.
attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message.
I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f
install' worked again.
I set up m
On 15 Aug 2001 10:30:13 -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote:
> > In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and
> > upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a
> > heap of stuff has compa
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote:
> In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and
> upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a
> heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to
> reinst
Hi all,
In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and
upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a
heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to
reinstall the old one .. just to make sure that's what had caused all
Okay, so I've brought this on myself. I was trying to install
openafs-client, which seemed to require openafs-krb5, which seemed to
require libc6 from testing. So, on my potato 2.2r3 machine, I downloaded
libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb and did dpkg --install libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb. It
seemed to work fine,
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Adam> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
>> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
>> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
>> (do that quite often myse
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file
> needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing
> (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK.
dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb,
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:53PM +0200, "J?rgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the
> Joost> dpkg available packages database.
>
> Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on
--On Friday, July 13, 2001 22:37:02 +1000 Graham Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quite a few times I've "apt-get update". I then check to see which
packages have been upgraded wrt my installation, then go to install
them with apt-get install and the deb files are not there. Checking
the ac
Received Fri 13 Jul 2001 9:16pm +1000 from Joost Kooij:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> > no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
Sorry not to have any useful
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
> no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
> -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at
> ftp.us.debian.org there
But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say
no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there
-- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at
ftp.us.debian.org there is no util-linux later than April 15 which I
already have -- and yet
Breathe, man, breathe...
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:20:53 "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> > "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Joost> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> >> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could
> they
>
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
>> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
>> be out of date?
Joost> If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use th
I did a dselect update from within dselect but got the same missing
packages as before when I did apt-get dselect-upgrade. I have not had
any problems doing it this way before, but in the last two days its
not working.
Looking on the debian site, I cannot find an up to date binary for
util-linux
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
> be out of date?
If you do a "dselect-upgrade" with apt-get, it will use the dpkg available
packages database. Apt normally uses its own available packages database
John Covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
>be out of date?
'apt-get update' only updates apt's available file, not dpkg's. 'dselect
update' updates both.
However, if you're using apt, then this shouldn't matter. It may just be
tha
I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they
be out of date?
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> > I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> > missing files and indeed if I ftp to
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote:
> I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
> missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
> not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
> there?
>
> I am running wo
I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some
missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are
not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not
there?
I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the
output.
321 packages up
Hi there,
I've tried to upgrade my 2.2r0 to r3. This is the output I've got:
debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang
debconf: (Unable to load Term::Stool -- is libterm-stool-perl
installed?)
(Reading database ... 53957 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing slapd ...
dpkg
I`m needing some help. Something got wrong when I was updating Gnome. There
was an error message and gnome-games didn`t configure. Now I can`t configure
it by apt-get and I can`t remove it either. I can`t even start X with
gnome-session on my .xinitrc. When I try it this message is thrown by
apt-ge
Hi from Genti,
I'm currently using Debian 2.1 with Kernel 2.0.38
As stated on the Release notes on upgrade procedure to newly 2.2 Release I
did a full upgrade from the internet. Everything went fine with downloading
new packages and at the moment of the upgrade at a certain level at the
beginig ev
Hello!
The last time I made apt-get upgrade, it tried to update the package
mount to version 2.10s-2, but the following error occured:
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archive/mount_2.10s-2.deb
(--unpack):
unable to make backup link of '/bin/mount' before installing new
vers
Here's how I ironed out the problems in my system after upgrading from Potato
to Woody:
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [250201 21:56]:
I was pretty sure everything other than my GUI and Sound was working properly
based on watching the screen messages during boot and perusing dmesg. The
only problem I re
Good evening everyone,
This is my first experience with upgrading from one version to another.
I love the debian apt-get tool; for routine upgrades and keeping my system in
top order with security updates it has been the greatest help.
The upgrade from "stable" to "testing" has not been fun
I tried to upgrade useing apt-get
upgrade
Sources.list = deb ftp://debian.site.org unstable
/yada /yada /yada
( Please note the unstable part. )
And it upgraded my Xfree and xserver-common to 4.0
somthin.
even tho my xserver-svga package was still 3.0
somthin.
needless to say...
#
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:42:25 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote:
> Here's a problem related to your problem. I got the same error when
> trying to install xlibs. Earlier, I had received a warning about the
> app-defaults thing. I moved the files in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 11:42:25PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote:
> Anybody got any ideas on how to sort this out?
I've run into that several times myself doing daily dist-upgrades on my
work laptop. (Yes, unstable is bad on a production machine, but I need X4
for the LCD screen, and the potato X4
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