Re: help with dpkg!

2021-07-18 Thread David Christensen
On 7/18/21 4:53 PM, w...@mgssub.com wrote: When dpkg tries to build a new initrd my system crashes. how can I stop dpkg from trying to build a new initrd so I can do some other apt things to fix my system? Many TIA!!! Dennis Can you manually build a new initrd? Why does dpkg try to build

Re: help with dpkg!

2021-07-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 18 Jul 2021 at 16:53:37 (-0700), w...@mgssub.com wrote: > When dpkg tries to build a new initrd my system > crashes. how can I stop dpkg from trying to build a new initrd so I can do > some other apt things to fix my system? Try setting update_initramfs=no in /etc/initramfs-tools/upd

help with dpkg!

2021-07-18 Thread wix
When dpkg tries to build a new initrd my system crashes. how can I stop dpkg from trying to build a new initrd so I can do some other apt things to fix my system?Many TIA!!!Dennis

Re: help with dpkg --configure error message

2003-07-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by > poking about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a > tedious message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? > > At the moment I get this: >

Re: help with dpkg --configure error message

2003-07-23 Thread Adam Garside
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking > about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious > message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? > > At the moment I get this: >

help with dpkg --configure error message

2003-07-23 Thread Wookey
I've got a broken package and whilst I've got the package working by poking about dpkg is convinced it's still broken and regales me with a tedious message every time I run it. How do I debug the problem? At the moment I get this: stoneboat:/etc/php4/apache# dpkg --configure proftpd Setting up pro

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
> You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine > with the same version, right? > Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? > If different files, do they match? Trying new package files doesn't change anything. Somewhere in it's caching, dpkg remembers th

Re: Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Bob Thibodeau
You said in your earlier message that you upgraded another machine with the same version, right? Was it the same file, or did each machine download its own copy? If different files, do they match? If not, try sneaker net. If those ideas don't work, you can try rebuilding by hand just to ge

Need Help with dpkg Error

2002-02-15 Thread Jason Majors
I keep getting the following error when I run apt-get anything on one of my boxes: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): md5sum gave malformatted output `fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e' Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 I've tried removing th