Re: upgrade failed, not finding modules

2004-12-04 Thread Jörg Harmuth
Hi Brett, I had a similar experience some time ago, resulting in the message init: no processes... like you. In my case it was a stupid installation process, that left /etc/inittab empty :( To investigate and solve the problem, I booted from a Knoppix CD, mounted the file systems on the hd and

Re: apt-get (dpkg) Package is in very bad inconsistant state

2004-12-04 Thread David Schmitt
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:10:36AM -0200, Philip Pinkerton wrote: HOW DO I REMOVE BLAABLAH SO apt-get (dpkg) STOP WANTING TO HAVE IT REINSTALLED ? Try using dpkg --purge blaablah. Regards, David -- * Customer: My palmtop won't turn on. * Tech Support: Did the battery run out, maybe?

gtk 1.2 fontsize with LANG=de_DE@euro

2004-12-04 Thread Haug =?ISO-8859-1?Q?B=FCrger?=
I experienced very small fonts with gtk 1.2 programs, tested with GNOME. Some experiments have shown that the font size depend on the LANG environment variable, setting it to de_DE works but the installed value [EMAIL PROTECTED] produces unreadable output. I don't know if the LANG variable is set