Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:17 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Well, I'm not exactly the world's most experienced systems > administrator - in fact, the term "incompetent amateur" is perhaps > more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for > others. I've been running Etch for so

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 01:17, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Now, you've got to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and then soon >> upgrade from Sarge to Etch. That 2-step process is much slower >> and error-prone than the one-st

Solved: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > > sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot > > record - but I don't even know the right terminology to figure out > > wh

Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > *sigh* You are the second person to suggest in effect never actually > > upgrading a debian system, > > We'd *never* say that. Well, what the other fellow said was that in his shop, they prefer to reinstall from scratch, at least when going from woody

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 19:10, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: >>> On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: >> [snip] >>> I'll make one tonight, and try

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > [snip] > > I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. > > Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stag

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > [snip] > I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. > Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stage

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > > sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot > > record - but I don't even know the right terminology to figure out > > wh

Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this list can point me at the > right TFM. I'm also somewhat inclined to vent. > > The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to > sarge.

sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Folks, I'm hoping the collective wisdom of this list can point me at the right TFM. I'm also somewhat inclined to vent. The problem - I tried to upgrade an elderly system from woody to sarge. Now it doesn't boot. I suspect the upgrade ate the master boot record - but I don't even know the righ

Re: woody upgrade/update path

2003-12-22 Thread Andy Firman
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:46:33PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi all, > > I have to install spamassassin (and likely some sort of virus filtreing - > amavis or so) on a handful of debian woody mailservers. Also, I need to add > hylafax server to them all. > > The servers can't go down, at l

woody upgrade/update path

2003-12-22 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi all, I have to install spamassassin (and likely some sort of virus filtreing - amavis or so) on a handful of debian woody mailservers. Also, I need to add hylafax server to them all. The servers can't go down, at least not longer than a restart if it really has to, so I have to find a way

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade

2003-03-22 Thread David Z Maze
Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I currently have Potato installed, and a stack of > Woody CD's, how do I upgrade from Potato to Woody? > > Do I have to just install over Potato? > > Or, does apt-get or dpkg allow a more graceful upgrade > in some automatic fashion? You should be able to dr

Potato to Woody upgrade

2003-03-22 Thread Larry
If I currently have Potato installed, and a stack of Woody CD's, how do I upgrade from Potato to Woody? Do I have to just install over Potato? Or, does apt-get or dpkg allow a more graceful upgrade in some automatic fashion? If there's an upgrade method, will it goof up things like my lan connec

Re: htdig snafu after woody upgrade

2003-01-06 Thread nate
will trillich said: > /usr/bin/rundig: cd: /var/spool/htdig: No such file or directory > DB2 problem...: /var/spool/htdig/db.docdb: No such file or > directory > > (at one point i thought i was beginning to get the hang of > figuring these things out. alas...) > > what salve is t

htdig snafu after woody upgrade

2003-01-06 Thread will trillich
here's what i get from cron.daily these days-- /etc/cron.daily/htdig: DB2 problem...: /var/spool/htdig/db.docdb.work: No such file or directory htdig: Unable to open/create document database '/var/spool/htdig/db.docdb.work' htmerge: Unable to create

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:07:00PM -0700, nate wrote: > D.U. said: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > > mod

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread Donald R. Spoon
nate wrote: D.U. said: On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I giv

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread nate
D.U. said: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I comment out eepro from /etc/modules, my box boots up under the 2.4 > kernels and I can log in. An odd thing I just noticed is there are no > modules loaded at all. However, I can insmod eepro if I > give it the

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:26:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The release notes didn't say there were any problems going > > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do? > > If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to > type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doin

Re: potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread nate
D.U. said: > I searched but didn't find anything in google... > > I upgraded a box to 3.0 and that part went fine. But then I > upgraded to the standard 2.4.18 kernel image deb (from a 2.2 > kernel. did you add the initrd option to lilo.conf? the 2.4 kernel (at least the default one) has a real bi

potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread levi . waldron
> The release notes didn't say there were any problems going > from 2.2 to 2.4. What did I forget to do? If you modified /etc/lilo.conf to add the new kernel, did you remember to type "lilo" before rebooting? Not doing this will lock it up for sure. The bootdisk-HOWTO tells you what various LIL

potato to woody upgrade problem

2002-10-22 Thread D.U.
I searched but didn't find anything in google... I upgraded a box to 3.0 and that part went fine. But then I upgraded to the standard 2.4.18 kernel image deb (from a 2.2 kernel. I installed the matching initrd package too. At first I tried the k6 kernel, and I tried the 2.4bf kernel and got the

Re: ATAPI CDROM can't rip audio discs after Woody upgrade

2002-10-14 Thread Levi Waldron
Some new info! cdparanoia DOES work kreatecd DOES work (wasn't configured correctly) grip DOES work (ditto) xcdroast DOESN'T work (as described in the first post) I can't seem to find what xcdroast uses as an audio-reading backend, but this seems to be a problem with either xcdroast or whateve

Re: ATAPI CDROM can't rip audio discs after Woody upgrade

2002-10-14 Thread Levi Waldron
[snip] > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/scd1 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > generic device: /dev/sg1 > ioctl device: /dev/scd1 How d

Re: ATAPI CDROM can't rip audio discs after Woody upgrade

2002-10-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:20:46PM -0400, Levi Waldron wrote: [snip] > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/scd1 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > generic devic

Potato to Woody upgrade always breaks KDE

2002-09-11 Thread Glenn Murray
I've upgraded potato to woody on five computers (two of them were complete reinstalls) and on all of them KDE dies a slow death. I notice the problem mostly with Konqueror. For example, after using KDE and Konqueror for some time (1-20 minutes) I'll click on a Konqueror menu, the menu will appear

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:15:01AM -0700, Pavel Epifanov wrote: > Hi All, > > I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, > suspicion > is about flash BIOS was wiped out) after "apt-get dist-upgrade" and following > hibernation last Friday. Are you using lm_sensors? II

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-15 Thread Pavel Epifanov
FYI: I was aware about lm-sensors and never installed then at all. --- Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing I'm aware of is a warning from the lm-sensors package which > comes up if you try and install lm-sensors-source (not sure about other > lm-sensors packages:

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
(Thomas is the author of tpctl, Debian maintainer and allround guru!) Thomas - have you any ideas? On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:08:13 -0400 (+), Tom Allison wrote: > Pavel Epifanov wrote: > >Hi All, > > > >I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, > >suspicion > >is

Re: My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Allison
Pavel Epifanov wrote: Hi All, I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, suspicion is about flash BIOS was wiped out) after "apt-get dist-upgrade" and following hibernation last Friday. It could be due to this 3 y.o. laptop was broken itself or due to new thinkpad* re

My ThinkPad is dead after Woody upgrade

2002-05-14 Thread Pavel Epifanov
Hi All, I've had my IBM ThinkPad model 380Z dead (laptop not going thru POST, suspicion is about flash BIOS was wiped out) after "apt-get dist-upgrade" and following hibernation last Friday. It could be due to this 3 y.o. laptop was broken itself or due to new thinkpad* related packages installed

ralt key dont work in x after woody upgrade ?

2002-05-09 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi i have a laptop with a danish keyboard running woody. i just upgraded and now my ralt/alt-gr key dont work in x. it works in console. how do i fix this ??? my XF86Config-4 have this entry: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard"

potato to woody upgrade again

2002-05-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I upgraded from potato to woody today following the release notes and this is what I found. The potato system was development tools and X and that's about it. The install went fine and post install I followed the directions exactly and found the following: 1. dpkg --configure --pending

eterm broken in latest woody upgrade?

2002-04-22 Thread Alan Su
ever since doing 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade' last night, my eterms have been broken. when i start one, the window is mapped to the screen, but my shell prompt doesn't appear. about a minute after i start the eterm, the shell prompt finally appears and all is well. to try to debug thi

Can't resolve DNS after potato to woody upgrade

2002-04-04 Thread Ed Kleckner
I tried an upgrade from potato 2.2r3 to woody and all seemed to go well except that after connecting to my ISP with ppp via phone dialup I can't resolve any names. This use to work fine under potato. I can ping the numerical addresses fine, but for example a ping to debian.org fails. I did a rout

Woody upgrade and DNS issues

2002-03-25 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I just installed a fresh woody server that was originally a potato. I performed a completely fresh install and now am having some goofy DNS issues. Whenever I have apache's HostNameLookup on set, pages on the server seem to take forever to load. If I change the above to off, it works great. I a

Re: remote machines can't open my display since woody upgrade...

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
"François Chenais" wrote: > Remove -nolisten tcp in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and restart X. OK - thanks. As I was using xdm, I also had to the same thing in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. Martin > > > François > > On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:39:i + > Martin Edward John Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: remote machines can't open my display since woody upgrade...

2002-03-13 Thread François
Remove -nolisten tcp in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc and restart X. François On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:39:34 + Martin Edward John Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Since I've upgraded to woody and XFree 4.1, I > can't get remote machines to display on my machine > anymore.

remote machines can't open my display since woody upgrade...

2002-03-13 Thread Martin Edward John Waller
Hello, Since I've upgraded to woody and XFree 4.1, I can't get remote machines to display on my machine anymore. Despite that, I can get logins by using Xnest -query on displays other than :0. Here's what I do on local: xhost + (yeah, insecure blah, just for tesing you see) telnet remote (on

Re: woody upgrade bugs

2002-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:25:13PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal... > > should I submit them as bugs? Please do. > not being familiar with bug submission, is anyone interested in this stuff? Check http://bugs.debian.org/ f

woody upgrade bugs

2002-03-11 Thread John Griffiths
hi guys... i've just upgraded a machine from potato to woody as practice for the "Great Leap Forward" to come. i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal... should I submit them as bugs? for example, apache access.conf was standard potato install but wouldn't upgra

Re: can't start x after woody upgrade {works now}

2002-03-11 Thread Chris Jenks
At 09:09 PM 3/10/02, Seneca Cunningham wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S startx xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/startx.1x.gz xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/startx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Installing that package fixed it. Thanks Seneca and Art.

Re: can't start x after woody upgrade

2002-03-11 Thread user list
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 08:45:19PM -0500, Chris Jenks wrote: > I know that this has been covered recently, or at least I think it has, but > I was not able to find it in the archives after 2 hours of reading > (probably just couldn't find the right thread). I went from 2.2r3 to 2.2r5 > to Woody,

Re: can't start x after woody upgrade

2002-03-10 Thread Seneca Cunningham
Chris Jenks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that this has been covered recently, or at least I think it has, but > I was not able to find it in the archives after 2 hours of reading > (probably just couldn't find the right thread). I went from 2.2r3 to 2.2r5 > to Woody, and installed Xfree86 4.

can't start x after woody upgrade

2002-03-10 Thread Chris Jenks
I know that this has been covered recently, or at least I think it has, but I was not able to find it in the archives after 2 hours of reading (probably just couldn't find the right thread). I went from 2.2r3 to 2.2r5 to Woody, and installed Xfree86 4.1.0-14 after going to Woody (no x before th

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:01:30AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:38:47AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the > > instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I > > need to make to /etc

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Chris Jenks
Comments are in line. At 03:38 AM 2/10/02, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list The six non-comment lines in my current sources are

Re: help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 12:38:47AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the > instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I > need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list What is jigdo? I do not see that package in DEbi

help with potato to woody upgrade please

2002-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list The six non-comment lines in my current sources are: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Bina

a question on grub/windows and one on woody upgrade

2002-01-18 Thread andrej hocevar
1) I have to install windows on my computer and I don't want to change more than is really needed to do so (especially concerning my disk organisation). But the problem is that windows want to be installed only on the first partition of the first disk which I don't want to give away. Here comes th

Re: potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

2002-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
7;back' button, not just dpkg-reconfigure. > Which package do I reconfigure to fix my monitor settings? Aha, > xserver-svga is it. Hmm, that should have been replaced by > xserver-xfree86 in the woody upgrade, no? File a wishlist bug report (may be there already :) -- ~\^o^/

potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

2002-01-13 Thread John Dalbec
ing until I worked out what the problem was. Debconf really really needs a 'back' button, not just dpkg-reconfigure. Which package do I reconfigure to fix my monitor settings? Aha, xserver-svga is it. Hmm, that should have been replaced by xserver-xfree86 in the woody upgrade, no? Who hit xdm with an ugly stick? John

URGENT: Woody upgrade breaks openAFS

2001-12-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- Yesterday I upgraded my office debian system to testing (woody). Most things worked fine, but openAFS didn't. I had openAFS 1.1.1 running fine under potato, and in fact had posted my experiences with getting it working here: http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/afs-debian-potato-unc.t

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade diary

2001-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Patrick Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Howdy, > > I just upgraded from potato to woody. As I expected, it didn't go so > smoothly. Bottom line: X wouldnt start. I went to irc where some guy > (thanks eeyore!) told me to get xserver-xfree86 package. A quick > apt-get and it worked. > > I h

potato 2 woody upgrade diary

2001-12-09 Thread Patrick Mahoney
Howdy, I just upgraded from potato to woody. As I expected, it didn't go so smoothly. Bottom line: X wouldnt start. I went to irc where some guy (thanks eeyore!) told me to get xserver-xfree86 package. A quick apt-get and it worked. I have to beleive this is the problem most people sending mails

Re: potato -> woody upgrade: 2 packages to go

2001-11-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:40:14AM -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Setting up xserver-svga (3.3.6-39) ... > dpkg: error processing xserver-svga (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error > exit status 10 > Setting up xserver-vga16 (3.3.6-39) ... > dpkg: error processing xserv

potato -> woody upgrade: 2 packages to go

2001-11-26 Thread Shawn Lamson
here is the latest from apt-get -f install: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up xserver-svga (

Re: Woody Upgrade REMOVED sysvinit and util-linux.

2001-11-24 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Patrick Dahiroc: > This is the message that apt-get dist-upgrade gave me: > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be > removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what > you are doing! > sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) > > should i install back sysvini

Woody Upgrade REMOVED sysvinit and util-linux.

2001-11-23 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
This is the message that apt-get dist-upgrade gave me: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit) should i install back sysvinit and util-linux after the upgrade or can i ju

Re: Woody Upgrade Question

2001-11-22 Thread Brian May
> "Patrick" == Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Patrick> are the packages sysvinit and linux-util suppose to be Patrick> removed when upgrading from potato to woody? Patrick> apt-get gave me the warning: Patrick> WARNING: The following essential packages will be re

Woody Upgrade Question

2001-11-22 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
are the packages sysvinit and linux-util suppose to be removed when upgrading from potato to woody? apt-get gave me the warning: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! sysvinit util-linux (due to sysvinit)

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Bob Underwood
On Thursday 22 November 2001 04:54 pm, Serge Rey wrote: > i did the upgrade yesterday, and along the lines of brian's suggestion, > this worked for me: > > 1) change apt sources to point to woody > 2) apt-get update > 3) apt-get -u install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl > 4) apt-get -u dist-upgrad

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Serge Rey
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:38PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: -snip- > > <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT --> > > Reading Package Lists... > > Building Dependency Tree... > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > data-dumper gnucash kbd modconf modutils perl-5.005 > > sysvinit util-linux > > xco

Re: Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Patrick Dahiroc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all > > i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over > the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to > point to woody and commented out security. i then ran > apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade. > the output of dis

Potato->Woody Upgrade: Removed Package

2001-11-22 Thread Patrick Dahiroc
hi all i'm considering upgrading my potato box to woody over the holidays. i've changed /etc/apt/sources.list to point to woody and commented out security. i then ran apt-get update and apt-get --simulate dist-upgrade. the output of dist-upgrade was a little troubling. <-- dist-upgrade OUTPUT

Re: woody upgrade

2001-11-19 Thread ben
On Monday 19 November 2001 14:36, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:49:42PM +, ben wrote: > > i've just finished the upgrade and everything that was still is, in that > > nothing seems in any way broken. i was under the impression that kde > > would be automatically upgraded from

Re: woody upgrade

2001-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 03:49:42PM +, ben wrote: > i've just finished the upgrade and everything that was still is, in that > nothing seems in any way broken. i was under the impression that kde > would be automatically upgraded from 2.0 to a newer version but no. > how do i upgrade kde? How

woody upgrade

2001-11-18 Thread ben
i've just finished the upgrade and everything that was still is, in that nothing seems in any way broken. i was under the impression that kde would be automatically upgraded from 2.0 to a newer version but no. how do i upgrade kde?

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Horacio de Oro
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:15:45 -0500 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you could make a symlink to the real lib. i've done this: # cd /usr/local/lib # ln -s /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.0.0 libexpat.so.0 # cd /etc # mcedit ld.so.conf then you add a new line '/usr/local/lib' save the file and run # ldc

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:50:00PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Yesterdays dist-upgrade of woody caused apache to fail to load with > > the following error message. > > > > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: > > l

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:15:45PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > There's a libexpat1 update in woody now which works around this problem. > > I had just complated a dist-upgrade when I wrote the report. Just > tried to install libexpat1 a

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:50:00PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Yesterdays dist-upgrade of woody caused apache to fail to load with > > the following error message. > > > > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: > > l

Re: Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:50:00PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Yesterdays dist-upgrade of woody caused apache to fail to load with > the following error message. > > Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: > libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or >dir

Apache - libexpat woody upgrade problem

2001-11-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Yesterdays dist-upgrade of woody caused apache to fail to load with the following error message. Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so into server: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory #ldd /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so shows why - libexpat.so.0 =

Woody - upgrade woes

2001-11-04 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a server running woody. This afternoon I tried to install fte-xwindows package, but ftp.uk.debian.org hadn't got the package. This is normally time to do an upgrade. So (in dselect - which I normally use) I did one There is something wrong

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Bob Underwood wrote: On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote: Hi, Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the following happened. Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsite

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Richardson wrote: > Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1 > [151kB] > Fetched 229MB in 1h3m28s (60.1kB/s) > > 86% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, chunk 2. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-p

Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Bob Underwood
On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and > then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the > following happened. > > Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1

potato 2 woody upgrade problem

2001-11-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the following happened. Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1 [151kB] Fetched 229MB in 1h3m28s (60.1kB/s) 86% [Scanning pa

Bug#117042: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update2)

2001-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
Package: balsa Version: 0.9.8-1.0.pre5-1 Severity: important (also seems to apply to 1.2.1-1) On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 06:10:02AM -0700, D. wrote: > Preparing to replace balsa 0.6.0-1.1. using > ...(balsa-0.9.8-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb > unpacking replacement balsa > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update2)

2001-10-25 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:19:50PM -0700, D. wrote: > > --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. > wrote: > > > > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was > going along fine and > > > > then I

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update)

2001-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:19:50PM -0700, D. wrote: > --- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. wrote: > > > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was going along fine and > > > then I received this error: Errors were encountered while > > > p

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error (update)

2001-10-24 Thread D.
--- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. wrote: > > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was > going > > along fine and then I received this error: Errors > > were encountered while processing > > > /var/cache/apt/archived/balsa.0.9.5-1.0.pre

Re: Woody upgrade and balsa error

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:41:40PM -0700, D. wrote: > In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was going > along fine and then I received this error: Errors > were encountered while processing > /var/cache/apt/archived/balsa.0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb > and I think it also said eror 11 encountered

Woody upgrade and balsa error

2001-10-23 Thread D.
Hi all, In doing a upgrade to Woody the upgrade was going along fine and then I received this error: Errors were encountered while processing /var/cache/apt/archived/balsa.0.9.5-1.0.pre5-1_i386.deb and I think it also said eror 11 encountered. What do I do now, do I apt-get -f dist-upgrade ? A

Re: Progeny->Woody Upgrade Alternatives?

2001-10-22 Thread adcarlson
sid=414 >> scott > > Now this is interesting. Why is it simpler than the Progeny->Woody > upgrade? > > ~~~ > Tips 'n' Tricks: Progeny->Sid sidegrade > Posted by DanielS on Tuesday, October 02 @ 11:19:55 BS

Re: Progeny->Woody Upgrade Alternatives?

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
> scott Now this is interesting. Why is it simpler than the Progeny->Woody upgrade? ~~~ Tips 'n' Tricks: Progeny->Sid sidegrade Posted by DanielS on Tuesday, October 02 @ 11:19:55 BST (773 reads) Having now done 2 Progeny-&

PROGENY->WOODY UPGRADE -- Step-By-Step Messages

2001-10-21 Thread Doc - KD4E
Please find following the instructions from Progeny for the Woody upgrade with the error messages received at each step. Anyone see something exceptional? If so what is the proper response other than proceeding on with the install and ignoring the error messages? Thanks! Doc

perl problem after woody upgrade

2001-09-19 Thread John Griffiths
Hi, all just pushed a machine up to woody, all went suprisingly smoothly, kernel upgrade to 2.4 was much ebtter than last time i tried it. but when i apt-get I get a weird perl error, as below: - apt-get install apache Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Th

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:27:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:07:35PM -0700, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > > >

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:07:35PM -0700, Bob Nielsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X.

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large > number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and appli

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Bob Nielsen: > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large > number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications > which have pop-up or drop-d

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large > number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications > which have

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:38:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I saw the same in mozilla/kde. But restarting the X-Server solved the problem > for me. > > Rainer. I tried that and several other things after it happened, to no avail. Actually I was using kde initially and tried gnome to see

Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I saw the same in mozilla/kde. But restarting the X-Server solved the problem for me. Rainer. > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 > MB of upgraded packages(!) > > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large > number of applications

Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear

2001-09-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50 MB of upgraded packages(!) This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications which have pop-up or drop-down menus, that the text has been re

Re: libdb.so.3 woody upgrade failure-bug; & apt/preferences favoring testing

2001-08-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:56:38AM -0700, tluxt wrote: > --- Anthony Towns wrote: > > There are two db2 problems: > > > one is an upgrade ordering problem, > > which is fixed by apt-get install'ing libc6 and db2 before anything > > else (especially perl). > > > The other is a compatibility pro

Re: libdb.so.3 woody upgrade failure-bug; & apt/preferences favoring testing

2001-08-20 Thread tluxt
Thanks Anthony for your prompt & informative reply! --- Anthony Towns wrote: > > 1. Would someone please provide a reply email with a workaround for this > > bug? > > There are two db2 problems: > one is an upgrade ordering problem, > which is fixed by apt-get install'ing libc6 and db2 before

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