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On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 12:27:10AM -0900, Web Sexton wrote: > Thank you Michael for your prompt reply. I am sorry for the delay. I am > a volunteer and I only do this a couple time each week. In any case, I > will try to answer your question. That's what most of us are ;) > > 1. I have only used the Debian packaging system to install, update, > upgrade, and remove (usually purge) packages including > arno-iptables-firewall. I don't remember the previous version and it > would not necessarily be the version immediately preceding 1.8.8c-1 > because I have not been able to regularly update this box. Ok, so you only installed the package and not the upstream version. Did you get the (previous) package from the Debian archive or from my private repository (packages from my private repository have a '<DIST>.apsy<LOCALVERSION>' suffix appended to the Debian version string (where DIST is the codename of the target distribution e.g. sarge and LOCALVERSION is some integer (usually 0)). Perhaps you can look into /var/cache/apt/archives on a machine that showed the bug. This directory might contain the deb of the previously installed package version. If so, could you please post the version? > 2. I don't remember having to hand edit the file > /etc/arno-iptables-firewall after the first time or possible subsequent > updates on this machine. The date of the Debian Installer kernel > (vmlinuz-2.6.16-2-amd64-generic) is 2006-07-15 (which is the same for > config-2.6.16-2-amd64-generic and System.map-2.6.16-2-amd64-generic > which I think are created at installation time). I probably updated once > or twice over the Internet since then. This last time which generated > the bug I used my mirror that I have on an external HD that I connect > through an USB cable. arno-iptables-firwall 1.8.6.c-3 was current at that time. I checked all versions beginning with this one up to the current version (as available from shapshot.debian.net), but none contained a file /etc/arno-iptables-firewall. I checked my version control system looking for anything in the packaging that might have created that file at some point, but I failed to find anything. > 3. I think I installed arno-iptables-firewall during my initial > installation efforts or shortly there after. I do have a router with a > firewall (also arno-iptables-firewall). I have several other machines > around that I have switched to arno-iptables-firewall over the past > several months. The installation script for arno-iptables-firewall > always seems to get in an update loop of some sort. This is the first > time I took the time to figure out the problem and then do something to > fix it, hence the bug report. > > I do hope this helps even a little bit. I just don't know where the file > /etc/arno-iptables-firewall came from that prevented the installation > script from creating a subdirectory of the same name. Please let me know > if I can be of further help. Could you post the file that caused the error, its content might provide some useful information where it comes from. Thanks for your effort, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
