Re: apt-get BROKEN (postgresql-client-7.4 lost its "libpq.so.3")... ideas?

2009-03-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:10:05 will trillich wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Boyd -- Please use interleaved quoting style. If that's too much effort, please bottom-post and trim the quoted text to only what is relevant. It makes the posts easier to read for experts that may have not been

apt-get BROKEN (postgresql-client-7.4 lost its "libpq.so.3")... ideas?

2009-03-11 Thread will trillich
Thanks for the reply, Boyd -- There *is* no pidfile for postgres 7.4 (check the original message -- we've got one for 8.1, none for 7.4 :). The real problem is really "main/usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_controldata: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 19:05:50 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: [...] > The word 'testing' was chosen by Debian maintainers to show what they think > Testing was and is good for them. I should prefer a name like 'desktop' to > show what I think Testing was and is good for me. Servers need stab

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 07:05:50PM +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > The word 'testing' was chosen by Debian maintainers to show what they think > Testing was and is good for them. I should prefer a name like 'desktop' to > show what I think Testing was and is good for me. Servers need stable, b

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-08 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Florian Kulzer schrieb: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 17:45:18 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i386_2.6-2_amd64.deb > > followed by > > apt-get install -f > > should fix this. This

Re: apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 17:45:18 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: > Since one week or so apt-get is broken because of unmet dependencies on my > → AMD64, Aspire 4200, Debian, mirror http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ > → testing. > > There should be a bug report, but I do not know against which of t

apt-get: broken dependencies

2007-08-07 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Since one week or so apt-get is broken because of unmet dependencies on my → AMD64, Aspire 4200, Debian, mirror http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ → testing. There should be a bug report, but I do not know against which of the five packages apt-get, gcc-4.2-base, lib32stdc++6, glibc-2.6.1, or dp

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread John Hasler
Dave writes: > Figure out how to make APT point to BASH and file the bug there. Be > interesting to see what the APT people have to say. Policy requires that /bin/sh point to a POSIX shell. Zsh is not POSIX-compliant. You can break many things other than Apt by pointing /bin/sh to Zsh. -- John

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Carl Fink wrote: > Shouldn't apt-get then refuse to run under zsh, or itself spawn /bin/sh and > run scripts under that instead of the default shell? /bin/sh is the default shell, and it is required on Debian that that symlink only be pointed to POSIX compliant shells. -- see shy jo signature.

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 14:51:22 -0400]: > The strange problem of the "not fully installed or removed" packages I > have been reporting has been resolved... Hooray! > > It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh > to explore its new fe

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:15:05AM -0800, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > I believe the issue is that /bin/sh is expected to be a bourne shell, or at > least closely compatible. zsh, "most closely resembles ksh but includes many > enhancements." ksh has "command language [that is ] is a superset of

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > set -e Of course that should have been -x, the point being to see where the script is failing. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:51, Charles Hallenbeck wrote (edited): > changing the symbolic link > /bin/sh to point to /bin/zsh instead of /bin/bash. > > I changed the link to point to /bin/bash again, [ran apt commands > successfully > > But why? I do upgrades at least once a day, and they usuall

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 02:26:18PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > > > Chuck needs to have a large scrollback and paste it to here for us to > understand the entire functiona

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed (solved?)

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
The strange problem of the "not fully installed or removed" packages I have been reporting has been resolved, but I do not understand it. It seems that a short while ago I have switched shells from bash to zsh to explore its new features. I did it gradually, first doing a usermod for each of my

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 06:55 -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Simone, > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: > > > > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from > > backports. > > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet depend

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Joey, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:21:32PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > Edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.config and > /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst and add a new line as the second > line of each script: > > set -e > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 23:57 +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: > > : > > > > set -e > > > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out > > what's really wrong. > > > This will tell you where in the script it's

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
Apologies for not reading the original message closely enough. I got stuck on the 'x11-common' part and didn't pay enough attention to the debconf error. If debconf is having trouble, that's really weird. Perhaps doing a dpkg -r debconf, then doing a clean reinstall of debconf? Using wget to do

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:21:32 -0400]: : > > set -e > > Then re-run this apt-get -f install and we should be able to figure out > what's really wrong. > This will tell you where in the script it's exiting... -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread John Miller
Why not just keep x11-common? It looks like a whole ton of X libraries are already installed. Otherwise, figure out which programs depend on each individual library, either by dpkg --show , or by trying to remove each library individually. Up until a month or two ago (when I gave it away), I ran

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joey Hess
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Retrieving bug reports... Done > Preconfiguring packages ... > x11-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 > Setting up debconf (1.5.2) ... > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Err

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 07:43:57 -0400]: > Yeah, but I can't yank it out! It is not fully installed, and nothing in > my arsenal can yank it out. Ok,then: Look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst and see what's in that file-perhaps we can hack a fix from there.

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 13:58:57 +0200]: > one more note, in case you have aptitude installed, you may try using > that, too, as it is known to be handle conflicts and brakage slightly > different from apt-get; The interactive interface can show what is > broken and such

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
one more note, in case you have aptitude installed, you may try using that, too, as it is known to be handle conflicts and brakage slightly different from apt-get; The interactive interface can show what is broken and such (just calling out a few suggestions now) HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
just thinking aloud, maybe `apt-get --reinstall install debconf` could help out on debconf, and then also on x11-common... I hope? HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Dave, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 06:12:29PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 06:50:32 -0400]: > > > 'Eek!' said I, and yes, do a backup. > > Then, yank it out. Yeah, but I can't yank it out! It is not fully installed, and nothing in my arsenal

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Joris, When I add either the --force-depends or the --force-all option to the dpkg --purge x11-common command, they also fail to remove the package. When I then do an apt-get -f install, I get the same familiar failure as I reported earlier. I may have to save what I can and reinstall my sy

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 06:50:32 -0400]: > > Do I dare try to remove debconf? I better do a backup first, this is > getting serious 'Eek!' said I, and yes, do a backup. Then, yank it out. Then, pull debconf from the testing repository manually and install with

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Simone, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:36:47PM +0200, Simone Soldateschi wrote: > > I had a similar problem two days ago trying to update 'libwx2.6-dev' from > backports. > 'apt-get' failed package upgrade due to unmet dependencies and I was unable > to fix the problem with 'apt -f install'. > A

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Simone Soldateschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 12:36:47 +0200]: > A debian user suggested me to fix the problem using synaptic and filtering > defective packages.. it did the job. Sorry. Here, he can't do that because he isn't even running X, only some components of it are needed for his

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:39:07PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed > with debconf. > Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what > happens there. The apt-get -f install debconf gives me the same c

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi, Joris On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 12:37:17PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: > Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > >Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed > > Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` Unfortunately I get the same familiar output: Script started on Wed 14 Jun 2006 06:38:49 A

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
Ok, it looks like x11-common can't do anything because somethings hosed with debconf. Try apt-get -f install debconf, or dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and see what happens there. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Simone Soldateschi
On 6/14/06, Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Dave,On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:> * Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]:>> Try: > apt-get remove --purge X11-common> apt-get dist-upgradeI had a similar problem two days a

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Joris Huizer
Charles Hallenbeck wrote: Package x11-common is not installed, so not removed Hmm, you could try `dpkg --purge x11-common` HTH, Joris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi Dave, On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: > > Try: > apt-get remove --purge X11-common > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Here is what happens when I do the remove: Script started on Wed 14 Jun 2006

Re: apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Charles Hallenbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-14 05:42:43 -0400]: Try: apt-get remove --purge X11-common apt-get dist-upgrade -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get broken, packages not fully installed or removed

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Hallenbeck
Hi list, I am running Debian unstable without x, except that some console apps seem to require some of the x infrastructure. Lately my apt-get upgrade, dist-upgrade, install, and remove all seem to fail because of a package or two that are neither fully installed or removed. I can't seem to fin

Re: Apt-get broken dependencies

2006-02-14 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:06, Thomas Lenon wrote: > I'm still stuck with apt-get refusing to remove gforge-db-postgresql > and gforge-ldap-openldap because they depend on postgresql which was > removed first. That really should not be an issue. Have you tried to list them for removal all at

Apt-get broken dependencies

2006-02-14 Thread Thomas Lenon
After trying some of the suggestions in : http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/12/1952217&tid=106 I'm still stuck with apt-get refusing to remove gforge-db-postgresql and gforge-ldap-openldap because they depend on postgresql which was removed first. dpkg (remove and purge) also

Re: Apt-get: Broken Pipe

2005-11-28 Thread d
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:32:09PM +0800, Marcus Deluigi (intern) wrote: > > Hi! > > I tried to install an unofficial debian package (AMPortal) by adding a > new ressource to resources.list. > But the installation failed with the error message: [...] The problem is that your unofficial package

RE: Apt-get: Broken Pipe

2005-11-28 Thread Marcus Deluigi (intern)
> (intern) wrote: > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/asterisk/sounds/ext-or-zero.gsm', > > which is also in package asterisk > > ^^^ the package conflicts with `asterisk'. > > > and I can't install any other packages anymore, because apt-get > > reports unmet dependencies: > > > > --- > > Th

Re: Apt-get: Broken Pipe

2005-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:32:09PM +0800, Marcus Deluigi (intern) wrote: > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/asterisk/sounds/ext-or-zero.gsm', which > is also in package asterisk ^^^ the package conflicts with `asterisk'. > and I can't install any other packages anymore, because apt-get reports >

Apt-get: Broken Pipe

2005-11-28 Thread Marcus Deluigi (intern)
Hi! I tried to install an unofficial debian package (AMPortal) by adding a new ressource to resources.list. But the installation failed with the error message: --- apt-get install amportal asterisk-sounds-amportal [...] Fetched 2622kB in 1s (2533kB/s) (Reading database ... 75051 files and direct

Re: apt-get broken after KDE dev download

2003-12-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jeff Bauer wrote: I recently installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop (2.4.22-xfs). I had no problem using apt-get to grab the latest openoffice, python, xemacs, etc. But after I retrieved some KDE development tools, I'm no longer able to use apt-get. When executing apt-get -f install: Reading Pack

apt-get broken after KDE dev download

2003-12-02 Thread Jeff Bauer
I recently installed Knoppix 3.3 on my desktop (2.4.22-xfs). I had no problem using apt-get to grab the latest openoffice, python, xemacs, etc. But after I retrieved some KDE development tools, I'm no longer able to use apt-get. When executing apt-get -f install: Reading Package Lists... Done

Re: dpkg/apt-get Broken

2003-07-26 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:52:46 -0700 (PDT) Steven Schlansker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble configuring packages. When they are installed, it > skips the configuration. When I run dpkg-reconfigure, it returns > immediately. What should I do about this? Thanks. > Steven Schlansker

dpkg/apt-get Broken

2003-07-23 Thread Steven Schlansker
I'm having trouble configuring packages.  When they are installed, it skips the configuration.  When I run dpkg-reconfigure, it returns immediately.  What should I do about this? Thanks. Steven Schlansker

apt-get broken

2001-01-30 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
Hey, is there any easy way to find out which packages apt depends on? My installation of apt is broken, and I seem to need a library (libapt) which I can't find anywhere. Cheers Tiarnan

Re: apt-get broken links

2000-12-16 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 08:35:50PM -0600, Bill Barnes wrote: > Attached is a copy of my sources.list. You might also consider adding: deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free for security updates > It seems that about every other time I do apt-get update that one or mor

apt-get broken links

2000-12-16 Thread Bill Barnes
Hi List: Attached is a copy of my sources.list. It seems that about every other time I do apt-get update that one or more sources will not connect. Is there another, more reliable list of sources? Thanks, Bill Get your own FREE

Re: apt-get broken?

1998-10-27 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 09:32:52AM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: : : Here's what happens when I try to `update' : : : # apt-get update : Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages : Error ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages : 550 /pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm/Package

apt-get broken?

1998-10-27 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Here's what happens when I try to `update' : # apt-get update Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages Error ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/hamm/ Packages 550 /pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm/Packages.gz: not a plain file. Get ftp://debian.crosslink.net dists/proposed-updates/ Packages