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-> After i've switched on my computer the first and only ->
thing i've started was apt-get distupgrade (so i dont't think there is ->
another apt/dpkg/dselect/aptitude/etc running [ps -aux atleast doesn't show
-> any). And many packeages before and after the
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:55:28 +
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /var/lib/dpkg/status is corrupt. Can you dig an older version out of
> /var/lib/dpkg/status-old or /var/backups/dpkg.status.*, perhaps? Check
> for differences with the current version before just copying it into
> place,
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 01:58:13PM +, Richard Kimber wrote:
> I tried installing a package (sane) but got:-
>
> dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58406
> package `libnss3': `Replaces' field, reference to `mozilla-psm': version
> contains ` '
> dpkg: parse error,
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 02:05:38PM +0100, Simmel wrote:
> < I tried installing a package (sane) but got:-
>
> Uhm, why don't you use apt-get install instead? Do you don't like
> it or already tried it with apt-get?
That's unlikely to work given his error message. Remember, apt-get and
every sing
< I tried installing a package (sane) but got:-
Uhm, why don't you use apt-get install instead? Do you don't like
it or already tried it with apt-get?
I always look up packages here, just simply typing in e.g. mozilla and get
back the packages I can install
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin
I tried installing a package (sane) but got:-
dpkg-query: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58406
package `libnss3': `Replaces' field, reference to `mozilla-psm': version
contains ` '
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 58406 package
`libnss3':
`Replace
Thanks Armin ... worked great! I think our original messages were in
process at the same time, I hadn't seen your export message yet when I
sent mine.
And after reading the bug report, I see the trigger, I am running a
2.2.19 kernel on this box --
So I guess I'll just watch the thread and the
On Sunday 22 December 2002 15:43, Hank Marquardt wrote:
> I've exactly the same problem -- worse, dpkg doesn't work either so
> you can't downgrade easily, or run update/upgrade again. I've posted
> on devel as well to see what shakes loose --
>
> I'm wondering if I can just copy over an old libc6
I've exactly the same problem -- worse, dpkg doesn't work either so you
can't downgrade easily, or run update/upgrade again. I've posted on
devel as well to see what shakes loose --
I'm wondering if I can just copy over an old libc6 from another
same-vintage machine to get the machine working aga
On Sunday 22 December 2002 13:55, Armin Joellenbeck wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have updated today with some error at the upgrade of libc.
> Now all apt and dpkg leads to:
>
> dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/':
> Function not implemented
>
> Seems to be a libc problem becau
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:55:00PM +0100, Armin Joellenbeck wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have updated today with some error at the upgrade of libc.
> Now all apt and dpkg leads to:
>
> dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': Function
> not implemented
>
> Seems to be a libc p
Hello all,
I have updated today with some error at the upgrade of libc.
Now all apt and dpkg leads to:
dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': Function
not implemented
Seems to be a libc problem because the command ls leads to:
ls: reading directory .: Function not implem
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:36:07PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a problem after a system crash. The file /var/lib/dpkg/available
> is corrupted and dpkg reports an error if I want to remove a package.
Use back up
/var/lib/dpkg/available-old
or look into
/var/backups/*
--
~\^o^/~~
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 10:36:07PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got a problem after a system crash. The file /var/lib/dpkg/available
> is corrupted and dpkg reports an error if I want to remove a package.
>
> Does anyone got a hint or some other info for me how to solve this?
>
run "d
Hi,
I got a problem after a system crash. The file /var/lib/dpkg/available
is corrupted and dpkg reports an error if I want to remove a package.
Does anyone got a hint or some other info for me how to solve this?
Please CC any answers to me because I'm not subscribed to the list.
Thanks in adva
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:06:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need some help: I recently tried to upgrade some packages, but
> after an error during a package replacement I wasn't able to
> install anything (with 'apt-get install').
If you'd like to give more details about that, we can pr
Hi everybuddy!
I need some help: I recently tried to upgrade some packages, but
after an error during a package replacement I wasn't able to
install anything (with 'apt-get install'). Now everytime I try to
install something I get this error message:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/avai
Thanks for your help, guys, but I think that I have fixed things. I seem to
have got things working by using the backup.1 as the status file. I know
that this might leave my system thinking that things are installed when they
are not (and vise-versa) but I figure that I can work through the diff an
> it happened a few times to me too. i was usually able to solve it by
> editing /var/lib/dpkg/status (yes i know it can be dangerous). is
> there any line number specified for the error? you can try posting the
> relevant section of the file.
>
> hope it helps.
>
> pietro.
Pietro, assuming that
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:59, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> Peter Parkes wrote:
> > After running KPackage yesterday (I just wanted a look), I am now
> > having problems with dpkg and apt. I am getting an error; Unable
> > to parse status file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1).
>
> it happened a few times to me
Peter Parkes wrote:
> After running KPackage yesterday (I just wanted a look), I am now
> having problems with dpkg and apt. I am getting an error; Unable
> to parse status file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1).
it happened a few times to me too. i was usually able to solve it by
editing /var/lib/dpkg/s
>
> Perhaps a diff between /var/lib/dpkg/status and one of
> /var/backups/dpkg.status* would help you here. At least it should reveal
> the last few changes to /var/lib/dpkg/status.
>
> HTH
Hmmm...diff between /var/lib/dpkg/status (april 25, when the error occoured)
and backups/dpkg.status.0 (apr
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 05:30:45PM +1000, Peter Parkes wrote:
> After running KPackage yesterday (I just wanted a look), I am now having
> problems with dpkg and apt. I am getting an error; Unable to parse status
> file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1).
Ouch.
> I am wondering if anyone has a suggestio
After running KPackage yesterday (I just wanted a look), I am now having
problems with dpkg and apt. I am getting an error; Unable to parse status
file /var/lib/dpkg/status (1).
I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion from having a similar problem (yes I
do know it could probably be all sorts
hi
But how can that be? After i've switched on my computer the first and only
thing i've started was apt-get distupgrade (so i dont't think there is
another apt/dpkg/dselect/aptitude/etc running [ps -aux atleast doesn't show
any). And many packeages before and after the mozilla-package were
su
Hi,
Your local package databse is locked. You have another instance of
apt/dpkg/dselect/aptitude/etc running already... close that, and then it
should work fine.
Cameron Matheson
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 14:06, Alexander Dreweke wrote:
> Hi
>
> While installing mozilla-browser and mozilla-xmlter
Hi
While installing mozilla-browser and mozilla-xmlterm I get the follwoing
error-messages. Haven't got any idea why these errors occure, can somebody
help me, please?
Note: I've triered wir mozilla-packages 0.9.6-1, 0.9.6-2, 0.9.6-3, 0.9.6-4,
0.9.6-5, 0.9.6-6, ... so I don't think it's a pack
I didn't lose textutils; it was listed as installed but somehow it was
installed improperly or possibly it didn't upgrade properly when I went to
the testing version.
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 05:10:20PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> Thank you. I found only two "tr" files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and
> the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that
> before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils,
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 02:16:53PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> This is part of the textutils package. Your package should have a
> depends on this. If not, file a bug.
textutils is essential, so packages don't need to (and shouldn't) depend
on it unless the dependency is versioned.
--
Coli
"Karsten M. Self" writes:
> This is part of the textutils package. Your package should have a
> depends on this. If not, file a bug.
textutils is essential, so the package doesn't need to declare a
dependency.
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
Green light in A.M.
Thank you. I found only two "tr" files: one in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/tr and
the other, actually a directory, in /usr/share/locale. So I decided that
before jumping to conclusions I would reinstall textutils, using "apt-get
--reinstall install textutils". After doing this, I had no problem with
fully
on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 03:49:38PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> I have a package that won't completely install or de-install. I think I
> know how it happened and have that problem fixed, but can't do anything
> with the package. I have tried to reinstall this package with all
I have a package that won't completely install or de-install. I think I
know how it happened and have that problem fixed, but can't do anything
with the package. I have tried to reinstall this package with all kinds
of options
and using dselect, dpkg and apt-get. When I use apt-get I get the
follow
Well, I fixed the problem. I don't know why, but it
is fixed.
I found v1.6.15 of dpkg for the alpha. I manually extracted
this file using "dpkg-deb -X". I then used the executable
from this package to fix the corrupted system using
"./dpkg -i" for the remaining packages from my update.
I also u
der.hans wrote:
> Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait
> for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit?
echo purge | debconf-communicate
--
see shy jo
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:32:10PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait
> for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit?
Look at the tools in debconf-utils.
Cheers,
Joost
Am 14. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Joey Hess so:
> Only if the package is broken and doesn't tell debconf it is being
> purged.
Is there a way to get debconf to purge by hand rather than having to wait
for the package to be fixed due to the bug report we submit?
I have run into something like this before
"Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote:
> Be aware, though, that if the package is debconf'ized, debconf will
> still have the *answers* to the configuration questions posted via
> debconf in its own database. So --purge and reinstall will not get
> rid of those.
Only if the package is broken and doesn't tell
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joost> When you purge a package, not only will its conffiles be
Joost> removed, dpkg will not know that it ever was installed. So
Joost> if you later reinstall the package and for some reason some
Joost> conffile still exist
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:02:03AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> Joost Kooij wrote:
> >Don't use dpkg for this directly, use dselect, the proper frontend.
>
> Alright, sir, I believe we're vitiating the goal of this mailing
> list. It would be wonderful if you could back up the monomaniacle
>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 10:02:03AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> Joost Kooij wrote:
>
> >[ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.]
> >
> Sorry, I've corrected this now...
>
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> >
> >>I've recently installed
Joost Kooij wrote:
[ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.]
Sorry, I've corrected this now...
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
I've recently installed Debian (Potato) on a personal computer,
and I'm having some difficulty with the pack
[ouch! next time, please hit enter after +/- 72 characters.]
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:08:27AM -0700, David Fuchs wrote:
> I've recently installed Debian (Potato) on a personal computer,
> and I'm having some difficulty with the package manager (dpkg) that came
> with it. The problem came up
David Fuchs wrote:
> So the question is, why did dpkg not install the files properly?
It thought it already had.
> Obviously it's keeping track of what's installed (or should I say,
> what it *thinks* is installed). dpkg's assumptions don't help me,
> however, and I can't be certain my applicat
Hello Debian users!
I've recently installed Debian
(Potato) on a personal computer, and I'm having some difficulty with the package
manager (dpkg) that came with it. The problem came up after I installed
the Ximian Gnome packages (via apt-get). Once that had completed, I had a
workin
Hi... I have installed abook with overriding his libc6 2.1.94 dependency,
but now when i try to install any other program i get an error about the unmet
dependency of the abook package... so I'm stuck there. In a man page I'he read
that you can mark a package as HOLD so that is is not managed by d
error"!
I'm sure someone more experienced may have more info, but that's what I've
found.
KD
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote:
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 07:57:25 +1100
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Joel Dinel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: dpkg
I did an apt-get install task-kde this afternoon. I got a message that task-kde
would not be installed because some other package was not installable. After
hunting down the problem package, I try to install it :
dimmu:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree.
I found it... the link is below.
ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb
Note that the problem goes away on upgrade to 1.6.11...
So this information isn't really relavent anymore.
--
Jonathan Nieder
__
I found it... the link is below.
ftp://ftp.iteso.mx/.1/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/base/dpkg_1.6.9.deb
-Aaron Solochek
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
>
> > Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
> noting as a bug.
has this bug been reported? it really sucks.
i've looked, and looked and can't find a related bug report
--
Aaron S. Hawley -> Aaron.Hawley @ uvm.edu -> http
Oh... I manually dpkg'ed the perl debs and that fixed it. but worth
noting as a bug.
But, where can I get the older dpkg packaes so that I don't hit that wall?
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Aaron Solochek wrote:
> I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation.
> I get the fo
I just got to the point of first dselect on a fresh potato installation.
I get the following errors:
debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (It then lists files it can't find and
such)
E: Write error - write (32 Broken Pipe)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Then it runs the standard
Ok, two choices:
1) Open up /var/lib/dpkg/status, and find the package entries for libc6 and
dpkg, then give the full entry (all fields for that package) for each one.
2) Try getting the slink _and_ potato dpkg .deb's, then use dpkg-deb to unpack
them so you can try to get a working dpkg.
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:43:48PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote:
> Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings.
> All I get is the segmentation faults.
Ok, two choices:
1) Open up /var/lib/dpkg/status, and find the package entries for libc6 and
dpkg, then give the full
Unfortunately I cannot do anything in dpkg other than get the help listings.
All I get is the segmentation faults.
Ben Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote:
> > In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I
> > run dselect or try to
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 03:57:19PM -0700, Rik Burt wrote:
> In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I
> run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault.
>
> I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my
> system.
>
> Does any
In moving from slink to potato I have managed to break dpkg. Whenever I
run dselect or try to 'force' in dpkg I get a segmentation fault.
I believe I have exhausted every man page and all documentation on my
system.
Does anyone have an idea how I can get dpkg working again at least or at
most ma
Dear all,
Recently, i download the libc6_2.1.2-5.deb and install it with dpkg.
However, there are some error messages :
...
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
dpkg-deb: error processing lib6_2.1.2-5.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-t
I'm getting this error whenever I try and add ANY package with dpkg:
fgets gave an empty null-terminated string from
`/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam-doc.list'
I get this when trying to add/remove/config, anything.
Any help would be appreciated.
Hi there,
Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when
somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when
running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the
database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file...
The init
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 15:27:37 +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
> dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: error processing libs/tcl7.6_7.6p2-7.deb (--install):
> subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
A part of th
HEllo,
whatever I tried i am still getting this:
work-root: dpkg -i libs/tcl7.6_7.6p2-7.deb
(Reading database ... 25455 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tcl7.6 (from libs/tcl7.6_7.6p2-7.deb) ...
gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit sta
download the package : et
and do :
dpkg -i your_package_name.deb
after what try to remove it with apt-get like you do before
I have a package that has the following code in dselect:
RI--
Package name et 80b2-8
I cannot install or remove this package. It is stoping me from using apt-get
to update some files for me. I have tried everything that I can think of to
install or remove this package. I have used dpkg, dsel
Hi. I've got two packages on my system that are
"broken" I think... In deselect they appear like this:
C** Std editors emacs19
C** Std editors emacsen-comm
It seems I am stuck with these 2 packages. (What
happened was that the bulk of the programs files were
deleted from the /usr direct
Hello,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joseph F. Dries III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all
>fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart,
>qpage, gives an error 100.
An error message like that often comes fr
Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:03:47 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote:
> >On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph F. Dries III wrote:
> >> I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all
> >> fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart,
> >> qpage, giv
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:03:47 -0700 (MST), Bruce Sass wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Joseph F. Dries III wrote:
>> I've tried to do a dpkg --remove, --purge, --configure, etc. They all
>> fail, saying there is no /etc/qpage.conf file, it tries to restart,
When all else fails, do it manually.
After you have hunted down the files in the package (via
/var/lib/dpkg/info/qpage.list, don't forget to check the
../info/qpage.{pre,post}inst scripts for files created or modified),
use a text editor and remove the qpage entries in
/var/lib/dpkg/{status,avail
Hello All-
I've just switched over to Debian 2.1 from many years of running RedHat,
SlackWare, or SLS distributions. I've got an issue where one of the deb
packages (qpage) was unpacked, but not configured, and therefore the
installation will not complete. It's listed as a broken package, both in
Robert Aisenberg wrote:
>
> Hi-
> When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying:
>
> "Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files
> currently installed!"
>
> The file I want to install is that server.
>
Try 'dpkg -i [name of .deb file]'
--
Paul
Hi-
When I use dpkg I get an error when it checks the database saying:
"Files list for xserver-vga16 missing assumeing package has no files
currently installed!"
The file I want to install is that server.
Thank you for your help,
-James
On 10-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote:
> I installed iglooftp:
>
> lilypad:/home/pollywog/src# dpkg -i iglooftp_0.3.3-1.deb
> (Reading database ... 46648 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace iglooftp 0.3.3-1 (using iglooftp_0.3.3-1.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement iglooftp ..
On 10-Mar-99 Pollywog wrote:
> I installed iglooftp:
> But dpkg says iglooftp is not installed:
> lilypad:/home/pollywog/src# dpkg -L iglooftp_0.3.3-1.deb
> Package `iglooftp_0.3.3-1.deb' is not installed.
Ooops I goofed. I should not have used the full package name when I did the
dpkg -L que
I installed iglooftp:
lilypad:/home/pollywog/src# dpkg -i iglooftp_0.3.3-1.deb
(Reading database ... 46648 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace iglooftp 0.3.3-1 (using iglooftp_0.3.3-1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement iglooftp ...
Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:41:28AM +0100, Florian Attenberger wrote:
> My dpkg does not work any more: "/var/lib/dpkg/status not available".
> I can't install any packages any more.
If you're lucky, there are still backups of it in /var/lib/dpkg/ ; look for
"status-old", "status.yesterday.0", "sta
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:41:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Florian Attenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: heavy dpkg problem
Hi,
My dpkg does not work any more: "/var/lib/dpkg/status not available".
I can't
Hi,
My dpkg does not work any more: "/var/lib/dpkg/status not available".
I can't install any packages any more.
Is there anything I can do???
Thanx,
florian attenberger
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Ching-Chuan Chiang(¦¿²M¬u) wrote:
> My disk space is full while I am installing packages by using
> "dpkg -i package.deb".
> Then, I cannot access my original status, that is,
> "dpkg -l" shows nothing.
> The disk full is due to the log file created by configurating pack
Hi:
My disk space is full while I am installing packages by using
"dpkg -i package.deb".
Then, I cannot access my original status, that is,
"dpkg -l" shows nothing.
The disk full is due to the log file created by configurating package.
After I delete the log file to get back my disk space,
the
Hi:
My disk space is full while I was installing packages by using
"dpkg -i package.deb".
Then, I cannot access my original status, that is,
"dpkg -l" shows nothing.
It seems some data files in /var/lib/dpkg are lost.
How can I restore my original setting..?
Thanks
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS
> "bruce" == Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> It's not likely that dpkg/dselect put the system in this
> state on its own. Things that wedge the system and then
> make e2fsck not run generally have to do with the shared
> library files containing corrupt data. T
> I tried to use dselect to
> purge the kernel-source package and again dpkg crashed, this time
> leaving me with a hung system. All I could do was power cycle my
> machine since the keyboard was apparently frozen and I could not
> log in on any other consoles. This left me with a bad disk which
> "john" == John Houwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not
> with the dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet)
> The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I
> made a few errors in my 1st attempt at the
In article "John Houwen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I have tried to remove these packages, but upon running either
>dselect or dpkg I get something along the lines of "Package is in an
>unstable/condititon please re-install before attempting to remove"
>
The kernel-image, kernel-source and k
o at the /var/lib/dpkg/info to learn "by example" what comes with
every package. In my case, the package_name.list file for the "unstable"
packages in that directory was missing ...and that confused dselect.
Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
__ Re
I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not with the
dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet)
The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I made a
few errors in my 1st attempt at the CDRom install, but managed to get
most of the selected packages unpacked & i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"):
> On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us
> > which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help
> > us a lot :-).
&g
On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> It should be a simple fix to getty_ps; if anyone packages it for
> Debian this will be an easy thing to do at the same time.
>
Yep, it looks REAL simple. It there isn't a current maintainer, I'll
package it up.
L.Lucius
__ Y_ a_ m_ b_ o_ | The leane
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: gzip and dpkg problem"):
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >This means that SIGPIPE was set to SIG_IGN when dpkg started. For
> >reasons too complicated to explain here this
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"):
> ...
> > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
> ...
> >gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
> >dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> >dpkg
Hi,
OK, haven't done much yet, but here's what I've done to check the
getty/gzip/dpkg problem.
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> This is a bug in one of:
> Your inetd, telnetd, rlogind, if you're logging in over the
> network (some versions of the
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> Please do tell us what the problem is if you find out. Telling us
> which ways of logging in cause the problem and which don't will help
> us a lot :-).
>
Well, I just checked and even the latest(?) version, 2.0.7i, of getty_ps
sets the SIGPIPE signal
> The login you're using (I know of no problem here).
> Any program which started one of the above, or which is in
> the calling chain for dpkg.
>
tcsh -> rxvt/xterm -> su -> bash -> dpkg
so I guess it would either be tcsh or rxvt/xterm.
[stuff removed]
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"):
>...
>> $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
>...
>>gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
>>dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> This is a bug in one of:
> The getty you're using.
> (Some versions of getty_ps are known to have this problem.)
You hit on the head for me anyway. I thought I was using agetty, but I
was using an older version of getty_ps (2.0.7g) and after repl
Paul Schoenly writes ("gzip and dpkg problem"):
...
> $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
...
>gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
>dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
>dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install)
> subprocess dpkg-deb --co
On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, llucius wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Paul Schoenly wrote:
>
> >
> > $ dpkg --install package_x.deb
> >.
> >gzip:stdout: Broken pipe
> >dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1
> >dpkg: error processing package_x.deb (--install)
> > subpro
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