Hi Michael. You got that right, exactly. I had followed some instructions from a blog post to install Oracle database on the system, but it was long, incomplete instructions, requiring a fair amount of mucking around in the system for me to try to get it right. I didn't quite get it running yet. What threw me off was the way this took a few months to cause problems to arise in package management.
dpkg and apt-get are working again! (more below, interleaved) On 2014-10-07, at 11:32 AM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 07.10.2014 um 19:53 schrieb Don Armstrong: >> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Sentientmeat Net wrote: >>> Hmm, I tried to figure out what group id might be required to replace... >>> >>> 'vm.hugetlb_shm_grop dba_group_gid' >>> >>> ...with, in... >>> >>> /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/sysctl.d/* (and I have no idea where or which >>> package 'dba_group_gid' came from--something standard and maintained I'm >>> 99.9% sure). >> >> Well, if you find the file that has it, it'll be more obvious what it >> is. (But using codesearch.debian.net, I don't find any matches for >> dba_group_gid in Debian... so it's likely to not be in Debian at all.) > > A quick internet search indicates that this might be related to oracle > database http://www.linuxinsight.com/oracle10g_on_debian.html Exactly. > Sentientmeat, do you remember having an oracle product installed on this > particular system? For sure, an it took a lot of fiddling to try to get Debian to look a little more like Red Hat in order for the installation scripts to have a chance. I followed some instructions from a blog post, but hadn't remembered editing a few lines in sysctl.conf or whatever it's called until I opened the file and saw my comments near where dba_group_gid was mentioned. Luckily I commented those lines, so I was pretty confident I could comment them out at least until the next time I attempt to get Oracle installed again. what threw me off the trail was that this didn't cause problems with Debian updates until a couple months after I added this line. Maybe some change in sysctl or procps or systemd (whatever those are). Thanks for the input! --dean > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/832154e6-bee2-4f6c-9a63-7c6b0ed99...@gmail.com
