On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:12:36PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > > >After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having > >trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair > >bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps > >someone here could show me a way to avoid that. I was running > >unstable, and got this problem; downgrading to testing didn't make the > >problem go away. > >
[much of original message snipped...] > Hello Martin, > > Looks as though we are in the same boat, so lets get something going here. > I'm in the process of stripping down Gnome 2.4, and it is a minefield of > interdependencies. > I know that nautilus-media and the nautilus package are dependent, so if > you install the package nautilus that may help with nautilus-media. > I've purged both nautilus and nautilus-media so far, If I need that type > of file manager, gmc will do it, and there are better multimedia > packages than nautilus-media. > > The only other thing that I have been able to glean so far, as I've just > started, is the gnome dependency on libgnome2-perl. > > For the rest, the impression is the problem is with debconf, from the > downgrade. > Have you tried a reinstall of debconf testing? > Regards, > > David. > That turned out to be a great hint! I used dselect to install nautilus, it installed, upgraded nautilus-media and all the other packages that were pending and left me with a package system that has no broken installs (dpkg -C now comes up with nothing). Both debconf and perl seem to be OK. I used dselect because the previous problems were causing aptitude to lose its database and hang, meaning I had to kill it from another console. One thing I did see - when I rebooted my machine (it's dual-boot and I needed to print some photos on a USB dye-sub printer), fsck told me that my /usr partition had duplicate/bad inodes and to run fsck manually. When I did, answering 'y' to all questions, there are in /usr/lost+found 29 files with names like #128268. These appear to be perl scripts (I don't know perl). But I've not noticed any ill effects from this, and the output of dpkg -l perl* is exactly as before. I assume these files are copies of the duplicate inodes and the originals are still in place? I'm planning to try and purge more gnome tomorrow - I need to get some sleep after last night's struggles :-). I'll keep you informed as to progress (or regress) - offline, I guess. -- Martin Hillyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
