Re: Update-Manager has fubar entry, can't find from description given

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib non-free main > > updates > > Assuming that this is all on one line, "updates" is a bogus keyword. > You probably want something like: > > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > deb http://http.us.debian.org/de

Re: Update-Manager has fubar entry, can't find from description given

2015-04-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 07:37:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Update-manager's little triangular icon won't go away. If I can > copy/paste its output: > > But I cannot do anything except a screenshot. Why do the gui writers > saddle us with such broken software? Any numbe

Update-Manager has fubar entry, can't find from description given

2015-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Update-manager's little triangular icon won't go away. If I can copy/paste its output: But I cannot do anything except a screenshot. Why do the gui writers saddle us with such broken software? In any event, the error msg says a subdir of wheezy seems to be missing, but that su

Re: Update Manager frozen...

2014-12-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 24/12/2014, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > ... for some days. I see on the update-manager icon on gnome-panel it has > got 47 updates, but when I load the Update Manager window it always > freezes... :( > > I've got Debian Squeeze x86 with this sources.list -> > I have De

Re: Update Manager frozen...

2014-12-24 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade did the trick! Thanks for the Debian forums! :) 2014-12-24 13:12 GMT+01:00 Gábor Hársfalvi : > ... for some days. I see on the update-manager icon on gnome-panel it has > got 47 updates, but when I load the Update Manager window it always > freezes... :( >

Update Manager frozen...

2014-12-24 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
... for some days. I see on the update-manager icon on gnome-panel it has got 47 updates, but when I load the Update Manager window it always freezes... :( I've got Debian Squeeze x86 with this sources.list -> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze non-free contrib main deb cdrom

Re: Update Manager

2012-06-12 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:12:28 -0700, owens wrote: Please, no html... thanks. > Running Debian Stable with Gnome. Today I attempted to due a regular > update using update manager. 1. System seemed to boot normally > 2. Root authorization of the update manager normal 3. Message "A

Re: Update Manager-SOLVED

2012-06-12 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: ow...@netptc.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 6/12/2012 4:12:28 PM Subject: Update Manager Running Debian Stable with Gnome. Today I attempted to due a regular update using update manager. 1. System seemed to boot normally 2. Root

Update Manager

2012-06-12 Thread owens
Running Debian Stable with Gnome. Today I attempted to due a regular update using update manager. 1. System seemed to boot normally 2. Root authorization of the update manager normal 3. Message "A fatal error has been detected in the update manager-do you want to submit a bug report&quo

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:23:13 -0300, pierpaolo pilla wrote: > " > Can you tell why are you using apt-listbugs to get the updates? I mean, > "apt-get upgrade" should manage that for you, right? :-) " > > With apt-get upgrade, I would have installed even the update with a > grave bug, that was my lo

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread pierpaolo pilla
" Can you tell why are you using apt-listbugs to get the updates? I mean, "apt-get upgrade" should manage that for you, right? :-) " With apt-get upgrade, I would have installed even the update with a grave bug, that was my logic. Is there a way to exclude packages with this command? " Don't wo

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:27:59 -0300, pierpaolo pilla wrote: > Hi Camaleon > > Update > > I have realised that there was another error reported once I was > refusing to try checking bug reports again: > > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 (...) Can you tell why are

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Hi Camaleon I am reading your latest reply after I sent you another message, where I seem to have partially solved the problem. You may want to have a look at it anyway, it has a transcript of my console too. Thanks again! Pier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Hi Camaleon Update I have realised that there was another error reported once I was refusing to try checking bug reports again: E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 I have decided to go manual, after reading this post: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=484

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:28:36 -0300, pierpaolo pilla wrote: > Hi Camaleon > > Apologies for my late reply, I would expect for any reply to my original > post to reach my mailbox, but it doesn't... You had some replies :-? > As I replied to Hugo, I have tried: > " > root@pier:/home/pier# apt-list

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Hi Camaleon Apologies for my late reply, I would expect for any reply to my original post to reach my mailbox, but it doesn't... As I replied to Hugo, I have tried: " root@pier:/home/pier# apt-listbugs list mono-apache-server Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrievin

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-07 Thread pierpaolo pilla
> I only get that with apt-listbugs. > > Hugo > > Hi Hugo Actually I have tried apt-listbugs: " root@pier:/home/pier# apt-listbugs list mono-apache-server Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done " It se

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-06 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:44:39 -0300, pierpaolo pilla wrote: > Many thanks Camaleon. > > Very much likely it's me, I'm a newbie ;-) This is not transient as I've > been trying daily for the past few days. Also, apt-get install works > with some application, but doesn't with others. > I am on a temp

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-05 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Unfortunately in my case it consistently stops at the same point: not able to retrieve bug reports... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1330962610.2400.1

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-05 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Unfortunately not. It only gives me a chance to try again retrieving bug reports. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1330962513.2400.9.camel@pier

Re: Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-05 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Many thanks Camaleon. Very much likely it's me, I'm a newbie ;-) This is not transient as I've been trying daily for the past few days. Also, apt-get install works with some application, but doesn't with others. I am on a temporary accommodation at the moment, with wireless only access to internet

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-04 Thread hvw59601
pierpaolo pilla wrote: Hi I have this bug when trying to install security updates (in update manager), and when trying to install mon-apache-server (with apt-get-install): " Error retrieving bug reports from the server with the following error message: W: HTTPClient::KeepAliveDisconnect

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-04 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
pierpaolo pilla, 4.03.2012: > Hi > > I have this bug when trying to install security updates (in update > manager), and when trying to install mon-apache-server (with > apt-get-install): > " > Error retrieving bug reports from the server with the following error &

Re: Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:48:14 -0300, pierpaolo pilla wrote: > I have this bug when trying to install security updates (in update > manager), and when trying to install mon-apache-server (with > apt-get-install): > " > Error retrieving bug reports from the server with the follo

Bug in both update manager and in apt-get

2012-03-04 Thread pierpaolo pilla
Hi I have this bug when trying to install security updates (in update manager), and when trying to install mon-apache-server (with apt-get-install): " Error retrieving bug reports from the server with the following error message: W: HTTPClient::KeepAliveDisconnected It could be because

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[top-posting fixed] On Jo, 27 ian 11, 19:42:07, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > I got a "key expired" warning for opera on one machine. Could you please > > post the exact message (copy-paste)? > > > The message wording is correct. Assuming by that you mean that my guess was correct, see Christ

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
The message wording is correct. Regards Michael Fothergill > > I got a "key expired" warning for opera on one machine. Could you please > post the exact message (copy-paste)? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mail

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 27 ian 11, 15:13:44, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > I don't remember getting this kind of warning in the past. I would be > upgrading openoffice and opera (this I think is a non free commercial > browser and maybe that is causing the warning here... not sure and > ttfopensymbol). I got a "

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Christopher Judd
On Thursday 27 January 2011 11:28:00 Michael Fothergill wrote: > Thanks for pointing this out.. My apt sources file looks like this: > > Vigor20:/etc/apt# more sources.list > > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera lenny non-free > > What would the command be to do the key ring installation and

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
> are not signed. you need to install *-keyring packages for that > repositories. > please port your sources.list contents.. Thanks for pointing this out.. My apt sources file looks like this: Vigor20:/etc/apt# more sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.7 _Lenny_ - Official amd64

Re: weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Roman Khomasuridze
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I just got a message from the package update manager: > > It says" Warning You are about to install software that can't be > authenticated!

weird warning about packages being unauthenticated from package update manager....

2011-01-27 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I just got a message from the package update manager: It says" Warning You are about to install software that can't be authenticated! Doing this could allow a malicious individual to damage or take control of your system." I would be upgrading 25 packages if I click

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:23:24 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > On 11/12/2010, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > Thank you Patrick. > > On a casual browse saw Cameleon had also responded. FWIW here are the > things requested. Your filtering method is too agressive. > $ sudo aptitude update (...) > squeez

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-11 Thread shirish शिरीष
On 11/12/2010, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > For what little it's worth, I'm seeing exactly the same behavior (on a > regularly updated 'testing' system). Thank you Patrick. On a casual browse saw Cameleon had also responded. FWIW here are the things requested. $ sudo aptitude update [sudo] pass

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-11 Thread Patrick Wiseman
2010/12/11 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, >       Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update > manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I > update the system using > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 11:40:11 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: >Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update > manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I update > the system using > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ sudo aptitud

Re: Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Addition at bottom :- 2010/12/11 shirish शिरीष : > Hi all, >       Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update > manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I > update the system using > > $ sudo aptitude update > $ sudo

Update manager - fatal error but no report

2010-12-10 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Since yesterday or the day before I have been getting an Update manager error saying 'updates are half or there is some issue'. I update the system using $ sudo aptitude update $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y Of course with the recent discussion all the entries in so

Re: update manager wants admin password

2010-12-06 Thread Camaleón
El 2010-12-05 a las 17:27 -0500, John Lindsay escribió: (resending to the list) > Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:20:33 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: >> >> >>> All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click

Re: update manager wants admin password

2010-12-05 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:20:33 -0500, John Lindsay wrote: > All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the > update manager icon --- (...) I always get asked for root password when there are updates available in the update manager icon. If you get a "key

update manager wants admin password

2010-12-05 Thread John Lindsay
All of a sudden I am getting the following message when I click on the update manager icon --- | enter password for keyring 'default' to unlock | the application 'gksu' (/usr/bin/gksu) wants access to the keyring 'default' but it is locked I can do two actions -

Update Manager slightly broken

2009-11-22 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have a fresh install of testing amd64 as of two days ago. Right after the installation the Update Manager orange star appeared in the gnome panel notification area. Hovering over it revealed that there was one upgrade available. But running Update Manager (either from the panel icon or from

Re: update manager

2009-09-15 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:18:47 +0200 claudio wrote: > update manager > > E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with > MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, > E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di

update manager

2009-09-15 Thread claudio
update manager E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di status non possono essere letti o aperti.' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: problemi con update-manager

2009-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 06:07:21PM +0200, claudio wrote: > E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with > > MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, > E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di status non posso

problemi con update-manager

2009-09-10 Thread claudio
E:Encountered a section with no Package: header, E:Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:La lista dei pacchetti o il file di status non possono essere letti o aperti.' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

update-manager: internet access not working since update [was: Re: Help! Lost GDM-based Internet Access in Squeeze]

2009-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,14.May.09, 14:03:37, Ken L. Klaser wrote: > The basic problem is this: I updated Debian Squeeze last night using a > weekly scheduled Update Manager update (may have been first one since > dist-upgrade, and since last night's update, Network Manager in Gnome > (or the di

Re: Re: Aptitude versus Update-manager

2009-04-14 Thread Marcelo Laia
> I think you are overdoing it. If you have all three version in > sources.list (which you do) apt will always install the newest version > possible. For running pure unstable you don't really need any pinning. But, why aptitude look at my pinning configuration and update-manager n

Re: Aptitude versus Update-manager

2009-04-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,13.Apr.09, 23:53:21, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi, > > I decided upgrade my Latitude D630 to unstable from testing. > > First, I have googled and having found that the good way was to set > the Pin-Priority in /etc/apt/preferences, and set /etc/apt/apt.conf to > unstable, and change sources.li

Aptitude versus Update-manager

2009-04-13 Thread Marcelo Laia
done! All changes was done when I ran safe-upgrade! Ok, I am happy here. All work very well. On the day after, the update-manager run and tell me a lot of upgrades packages. I simple do all changes. In my first boot after that action the X didn't goes up. I ran aptitude safe-upgrade and it

Can't view package changelogs via update-manager

2009-04-09 Thread Mark McCorkell
Running unstable, recently update-manager (0.68.debian-7) is unable to display changelogs for any available updates. Everything else (actualy updating of package lists and downloading/installing packages) works fine. Error appears as: srcpkg = pkg.sourcePackageName Unhandled exception in thread

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-25 Thread Barclay, Daniel
John Lindsay wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> John >>> >> >> >> Hi John, >> Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not >> start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore >> "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. >> T

Replying to the list (Was Re: Update manager)

2009-02-24 Thread Daryl Styrk
John, I see you are using Thunderbird as am I. Assuming your using the 2 pane view with the preview pane, you can easily click the drop down + just to the left of the subject to reveal additional header information and you should see the list's debian-user@lists.debian.org address.. You shou

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread John Lindsay
Thierry Chatelet wrote: John Hi John, Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. Thierry My apologies to the group. I did

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> > John Hi John, Dont use reply to and change the subject of the thread, this does not start a new thread, but goes into the one you are therefore "highjacking". To start a new thread, you have to create a new message. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Update Manager

2009-02-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hi, first: please don't reply to mails to this list if you don't answer to them. This is annyoing for a lot of people and your mail might go unnoticed by people who are able to give good answers to your questions. John Lindsay: > Is there a problem with the update manager or the sit

Update Manager

2009-02-23 Thread John Lindsay
Is there a problem with the update manager or the sites from which it get updates? I haven't seen an update since Friday Feb 13. It tells me my system is up-to-date but up until last Friday I would get updates 5-6 times a week. Also, whenever the update manager starts up, mplayer shows

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-01 18:16, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > * I don't know the details about it, I just saw the posting about a week > ago and thought "huh that's interesting" and went on my way. Sorry for > not keeping the link. I will look for it again and if I f

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 12:06:01PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have the same issue on my login. I run Lenny, but I don't know when new > updates are available. When I log in as guest, or any other login it gives me > that orange ball that says there are updates available. I must have turn

RE: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to >be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange >box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can >be updated, and it handles the updating. > >On a new Lenny install, this is not

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue July 1 2008, michael wrote: > > Yeah, but every day I have minor things to update on the other > > machine, but nothing on this one. And if I go to Synaptic, as > > I did a few minutes ago, I learn that I have 122M worth of > > updates to get through > > > > So clearly I think there's so

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread David Staer
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can > be updated, and it handles the updating. > > On a new Lenn

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:12 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > > > be the Gnom

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:10:13PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > > box that pops up on m

Re: Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to > be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange > box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can > be updated, and it handles

Update manager replacement?

2008-07-01 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On my current Lenny machine, I have something that appears to be the Gnome update manager running; I regularly get an orange box that pops up on my panel that tells me what packages can be updated, and it handles the updating. On a new Lenny install, this is not present. I do have something

Re: update-manager-solved

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue February 26 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ok, I get different output when I do an: > aptitude update > apt-get update > update-manager > > I think maybe I am unable to do updates right now. Here is the output of > each of those commands: > # aptitude reinstall

update-manager

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
ok, I get different output when I do an: aptitude update apt-get update update-manager I think maybe I am unable to do updates right now. Here is the output of each of those commands: # aptitude reinstall update-manager Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: OT linux smart, was Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-03-12 Thread Joe Hart
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:05:31AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: >> Default User wrote: >>> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >>> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >>

OT linux smart, was Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-03-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:05:31AM -0800, Tim Wescott wrote: > Default User wrote: > >I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > >K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > >available updates. Among them was l

GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I get this error when trying to do the daily update. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :-/ -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.or

Re: GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:26:58PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: > Hi list > > I get this error when trying to do the daily update. > > http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 > > What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :

GPG error when updating with update-manager

2007-03-02 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Hi list I get this error when trying to do the daily update. http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/nielsrasmus/Screenshots/photo#5037455125361547874 What is the procedure now, to make it work again ?? Never seen this before :-/ -- /Niels Registred Linux user #133791 Get counted at http://counter.li.o

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-20 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:44:09 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > > sud

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:48:25AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > You were right and I was wrong about directories (I've ceratinly seen > those 'permission denied' du messages). But since your message > mentioned files in addition to directories, I carelessly fired off my > response :). So in conclusion:

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread michael
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:44 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > > sudo

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:06:56AM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > > > Won't they have a hard ti

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:52:11 + Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote: > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a nor

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:34:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. > > Won't they have a hard time with directories and files that are not > readable by the normal user?

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/02/07 22:47), Celejar wrote: > Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with > sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user. I think you'll find 'du' complains if you run as a normal user. The reason being, it needs to descend into directories to gather usage infor

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:47:37PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600 > Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! > > > > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matchi

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:16 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > libc6-amd64 is part of the base system (for no particularly good reason > but all it uses is some disk space), so you probably already had it > installed. Yes, I noticed that shortly after my recent install onto a l

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600 Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! > > Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matching > libc64*." Since "sudo dpkg -l" returns a list of several hundred (a

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-15 Thread Tim Wescott
Default User wrote: I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 sy

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Default User wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:03 -0600, Default User wrote: >> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >&

Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

2007-02-14 Thread Default User
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:03 -0600, Default User wrote: > I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description > states

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: > Default User wrote: >> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >> available updates. Among them was l

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
Default User wrote: > I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description > states is a 64-bit library "meant

Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Default User
I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems". WTF ?!?! I