dselect error

2003-06-02 Thread Thomas Halva Labella
Hi. When I try to update the package list installed on my machine with dselect, I get the following error: Hit http://ftp.belnet.be unstable/contrib Sources Hit http://ftp.belnet.be unstable/contrib Release Reading Package Lists... Done Merging Available information E: Internal Error, Unable

dselect error

2000-09-10 Thread W.T. Boman
I believe I have a slink base system installed and functioning well but have not been successful installing X. Attempts to run dselect from cdrom or internet result in the followin error: running dpkg - pending-configure... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of

Re: dselect error (sorry for the repeat)

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
Looks like a bug in some script used by dselect where the existing of a file is testing, but there is no file to test for its existence. Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Brent McMillan wrote: > I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked > recently, but I can't find it in t

dselect error (sorry for the repeat)

2000-05-23 Thread Brent McMillan
I'm sorry for posting this question as I know it has been asked recently, but I can't find it in the archives or my inbox. I just tried to install a few packages using dselect. dselect is set up to grab the packages off a cd. As far as I know I've done nothing differently, however, I when I hit

Re: dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread aphro
i read a while back(year?) that the multicd support in dselect was rather broken(i've never had a reason to use it) try using plain cdrom as the access point rather the multicd nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Linux System Administrator ht

dselect error message

1999-10-25 Thread Jeff French
Attempting install of slink AMD K-5 PR-166, 49152K ram Install media on CD After [I]nstall begins, a message appears on screen: ... Scanning available packages...Cannot open /var/lib/dpkg /methods/multicd/available: No such file or directory. installation script returned error exit status 1. ...

Re: dselect error

1999-09-20 Thread Andrew Hately
Andrew Hately wrote: > > Kenneth Litko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect > > and it is driving me nuts. Here's > > the error: > > > > > internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13 > > > > > > installation script returned error status 1. > > >

dselect error

1999-09-18 Thread Andrew Hately
Kenneth Litko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect > and it is driving me nuts. Here's > the error: > > > internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13 > > > > installation script returned error status 1. > > Press RETURN to continue. Me too, except

dselect error

1999-08-15 Thread Kenneth Litko
Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect and it is driving me nuts. Here's the error: > internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13 > > installation script returned error status 1. > Press RETURN to continue. Can anyone tell me what this means? Here's what I am doing: I have a lapto

Re: dselect error message

1999-07-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 22 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "dselect error message" > I originally installed the base debian packages from cd and when > everything seemed ok I connected via the apt option to the default serv > er (debian.org I think) in order to get Netscape amongst othe

dselect error message

1999-07-22 Thread paul . walton
I originally installed the base debian packages from cd and when everything seemed ok I connected via the apt option to the default serv er (debian.org I think) in order to get Netscape amongst other things. However dselect stops at the install stage telling me that /var/cache/apt/archives/ is full

dselect error

1999-04-12 Thread Rick Smith
Hi All I have the following error when I run Access,Install or Update on dselect dselect: unable to access method script '/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/http/setup': no such file or directory any ideas? this just started happening! Thanks in advance Rick Smith newbie

dselect error

1999-04-11 Thread Rick Smith
Hello All I have a problem with deslect all of a sudden I can't select Access, update nor install I get the following error.. dselect: unable to access method script '/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/http/setup': no such file or directory I dont have dpkg http installed so I can't figure this out... any

dselect error: unmet dependencies: perl needs perl-base

1999-04-02 Thread Jeff Hill
Trying to add perl, dselect reports: Sorry, but the following packages are broken -- this means they have unmet dependencies: perl: Depends: perl-base press enter to continue Problem is, perl-base is installed (and deselect shows it installed). Thought I'd

Re: dselect error

1998-10-08 Thread Jeff Katcher
Leon Breedt wrote: > > hi > > am getting weird error messages with dselect under hamm: > > --PASTE--- > > internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13. > > installation script returned error exit status 1. > Press RETURN to continue. > > --END PASTE-- > > erm, anyone know wot i'm do

dselect error

1998-10-01 Thread Leon Breedt
hi am getting weird error messages with dselect under hamm: --PASTE--- internal error - no filename at -e line 12, chunk 13. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. --END PASTE-- erm, anyone know wot i'm doing wrong? i've recently migrated from slackware,

dselect error: slang0.99.38 conflicts with slang0.99.34

1998-05-29 Thread Mark Phillips
I am still having problems upgrading to hamm. I have run autoup.sh successfully (I think). Now trying to install, running dselect I get: Looking for part 1 of slang0.99.38 ... /usr/local/store0/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/base/slang0.99.38_0.99.38-5.deb Running dpkg -iB for slang0.99.38 ... dp

dselect : error installing Apache

1998-02-04 Thread Maurizio Marini
Hi, for your knowledge, report this error signaled by dpkg installing Apache on debian 1.3: (i used gpm...) -- [...] modules into memory. This program will by default configure Apache so only modules that are actually needed are loaded.

Dselect error (unstable related)

1998-01-14 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, Upgraded quite successfully to libc6 unstable. But now for some reason, I get the following error when ftp upgrading using Dselect; gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/

dselect error

1998-01-04 Thread BOB
I am a new user to Linux and whilst trying to install packages through 'dselect' I run into problems which return a message 'exit error status 1' Also not all of the packages selected will install. ie. half a package may install but the rest won't. Any sugestions??? thanks fingers -- TO U

Re: 1st install, dselect error on "at" package, can't go further

1997-09-20 Thread Martin Str|mberg
[Posted and mailed. Eh - mailed and mailed.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Subject pretty well says it all... even tried both mini and full : installs. Yes but not in any way near enough to make us able to help you: you say what goes wrong but not the error messages. : Installing f

1st install, dselect error on "at" package, can't go further

1997-09-19 Thread Nelson, R.A \(Richard/Rick\)
Subject pretty well says it all... even tried both mini and full installs. Installing from "official Debian 1.3(.1)" obtained recently from CheapBytes. How do I find out what's wrong with the package and bypass it? Richard Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsub

dselect error message

1997-05-18 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
While dselect was getting files from a mirror by ftp last night is stopped with the following error message: Net::FTP: Unexpected EOF on command channel at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 1195 The ppp link was still up and the ppp log indicated it had not gone down and re-started.

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Ronald van Loon
In a message to me, Andreas Tille, you wrote: |"> How well has nfs been implemented on the HP? |"If there is any chance to do it in different ways I'm quite sure that the |"administrator had choosen the bad way. This machine is in a terrible |"state and it seems me that to become a Server for se

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > Two things. If I remember correctly (from your previuos posts) you have > your packages on an nfs-mounted partition; and a troublesome one on an > HP machine at that. There could be many things not related to deselect > or Linux that may be affecting your sy

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Bob Clark
Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > > > It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages > > that were present before this instance of deselect. > This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't > installed should take 5-10

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Bob Clark wrote: > It is "leaving" packages that were *not* installed. Things like pakages > that were present before this instance of deselect. This is what I read on my screen, but to leave a package which wasn't installed should take 5-10 seconds?? That's the time it takes

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-07 Thread Bob Clark
Andreas Tille wrote: > > Under the subject: dselect error > I posted some odd things. > > Now a further question: After the emergency stop caused by errors > dselect asks, if I want to delete the installed stuff. I said yes > and now I get messages of the type:

Re: dselect error (more)

1997-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Under the subject: dselect error I posted some odd things. Now a further question: After the emergency stop caused by errors dselect asks, if I want to delete the installed stuff. I said yes and now I get messages of the type: leaving: stable/.../package.deb for each package. But it takes a

Re: dselect error (Was: Access to NFS-Server)

1997-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: > Try adding the -P option to the df command in > /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/install: > > line 230: > > my $avsp = `df -P -k $::dldir| awk '/\\// { print \$4}'`; > > line 236: > > $avsp = `df -P -k $::dldir| awk '/\\// { print \$4}'`; This helps to *ge

Re: dselect error (Was: Access to NFS-Server)

1997-03-06 Thread Ronald van Loon
|" JG>Sounds like dselect is df-ing the /var to figure out if there is file space. |" JG>That's a bug in my opinion. It should probably also check to see if you |" JG>have a remote mounted /var/lib or /var/lib/dpkg or /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ or |" JG> /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp etc. |"I tried to v

dselect error (Was: Access to NFS-Server)

1997-03-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi once more after some conversation with Jeff Gunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from which I've got some new ideas I post some parts of this discussion to the list and add some new aspects of my problem. (The new aspects are the reason why not posting only to Jeff.) JG>Sounds like dselect is df-ing