On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:27:57 -0400 Steve Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Doc. > > Problem 1: new debian install from cd caused loss of serial ports. > I copied and upgraded a partition of my current debian, 3.0 > Problem repeated. "loss of serial ports" is not a very good problem description. As far as I know, there have been no reworks of the serial port drivers. Most probably your problem in this specific case is something relatively simple, but I don't know the solution offhand, nor you give enough information that we could make more detailed assumptions. -doc > Solution: ask for answers but stick with old version > But no answers came. > > Problem 2, the conflicts, started when "backport" support for older > versions stopped > > To my limited knowledge, unless I need a Debian upgrade that leaves my > ports working > > I'll stop there for now. Looking for the log records on one of about 8 > partitions, no luck yet. > > Thanks again. > > Davor Ocelic <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:36:18 -0400 > > Steve Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I can ask on hcoop-discuss: > >> > >> With debian lenny/sid. Not upgraded because upgrades left me with > >> no serial ports and I didn't know modules that would restore them. > >> So my debian libc packages are not current enough and I can't > >> install kerberso, amongst others > >> > >> How/where can I find a kerberos I can install? Is the answer to > >> download source code and compile it? > >> > >> I logged into my account via Mozilla 1.7.13, so as long as that > >> works (slowly) I do have access. Haven't tried Firefox yes. > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > > > > Hey Steve, > > > > If you can't perform the upgrade regularly, it means there's a > > problem in your setup which is more important than just getting > > kerberos working. > > > > You probably messed up the sources.list and the versions of packages > > on your system. > > > > So the solution is not in using Kerberos from source, but in fixing > > your setup. > > > > Here's a recipe: > > > > 1) make sure you have 'testing' or 'unstable' repositories in > > sources.list > > > > 2) apt-get update > > > > 3) aptitude install krb5-user > > > > (Use aptitude instead of apt-get because it has better > > dependency resolution mechanism, but do check whether the solution > > it is suggesting you is the one you would accept). > > > > When you run the command under (3), aptitude will try find > > the necessary packages to remove/install/upgrade so that you both > > get krb5-user installed and have all dependencies resolved. > > > > -doc > > > > _______________________________________________ > > HCoop-Help mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-help > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hcoop.net/listinfo/hcoop-help
