Sorry, Ethan. On Tuesday 13 August 2013 Bob Proulx wrote: > And your quoting is really painful. I am sure it is not a > problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully.
Please, someone who uses Thunderbird/Icedove, come to the rescue of the rest of us and tell Ethan how to sort his quoting out. It is, as Bob says, painful. Lisi On Tuesday 13 August 2013 06:03:28 Bob Proulx wrote: > Ethan, > > I see that you are using Thunderbird. A lot of people do. But why > are your messages always broken? You never reply to the message you > are quoting and seem to be replying to but the message before it. > Strange. And your quoting is really painful. I am sure it is not a > problem with Thunderbird since other people use it successfully. > > Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > > env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep mysql-server > > I had asked for the 'env COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l' so that the columns would > not go out too far and would not be hard to read. > > > iU mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 all > > MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest version) rc > > mysql-server-5.1 5.1.66-0+squeeze1 i386 > > MySQL database server binaries and system database setup iF > > mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 > > MySQL database server binaries and system database setup ii > > mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 i386 > > MySQL database server binaries > > But yours go out to column 144 so of course I know you didn't use the > command I asked you to use. Sigh. > > And the above clearly shows the problem. I will chop it down. > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig > |-pend / Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) > | > ||/ Name Version Description > > > +++-==============-==============-========================================= >=== iU mysql-server 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 > rc mysql-server-5.1 5.1.66-0+squeeze1 > iF mysql-server-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 > ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.31+dfsg-0+wheezy1 > > mysql-server is Unpacked but not configured. mysql-server-5.5 install > is marked as Failed. That is clearly bad. You can't ignore these > errors. > > I would try this first. Needs root. > > apt-get install -f > > That should rerun the configuration of the failed packages. Since it > produced errors before it will probably produce errors again. Post > those errors. They need to be fixed. > > After you get the new mysql server installed correctly then, and only > then, purge the previous server. Doing so will have the side effect > of shutting down the server so it needs to be started again. But > don't do it until you have the new server installed correctly. > > dpkg --purge mysql-server-5.1 > service mysql start > > Bob -- 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/201308141032.48132.lisi.re...@gmail.com
