Hi all, I've just set myself up providing linux servers to small firms that don't have IT departments.
typically I like to have the filesystem running ext3 to allow for situations like cleaners plugging out the machine to vacuum clean around it, power cuts, etc. for these reasons, I install a small Potato setup using 2.2r3 disk, then upgrade to woody and then put a 2,4 kernel on. Its all vary neat when it works. But there is a problem that keeps recurring so I wonder if I'm doing something wrong or should I file it as a serious bug. After apt-get dist-upgrade, running dselect for any package brings up conflicts and tries to remove console-tools, bsdutils, lilo and basically the whole system tries to commit harakiri. I have discovered that I can resolve this by finding kbd on the list of conflicts, uninstalling it and then all problems seem to go away. I have never knowingly installed kbd. Until now I assumed it was just me but I've seen posts on my local linux user group list that mention failed upgrades to woody with similiar problems. So I wonder if this is a bug? Have others n this list found something similiar? whre can I check if its a known bug before wasting peopl's time posting it to the buglist? shoudl I find out who is the kbd maintainer and email him? Patrick