On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:13:21 -0700, Joe Emenaker said:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no
network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without
bringing in netbase and it's dependencies via
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 01:05:56AM +0100, Jeff Green wrote:
Try remote rebooting a server with a 120Gig Raid array and 1GB Ram takes
several hours to come up if wants an fsck!
Not if you're using reiserfs or some other journalling filesystem on
the RAID array!
What does this have to do with
Nothing, I apologise.
Nathan E Norman wrote:
What does this have to do with the original topic anyway?
I tried to install a package using apt-get
yesterday. It complained about dependencies for some stuff. It suggested that I
use "apt-get -f install {packagename}".
So I did
It downloaded a bundle of packages, whizzed through
the configurations for them in no time at all.
Everything
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
It seems that apt-get decided to UNINSTALL:
o netkit-inetd
o ipchains
o netbase
and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no
network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without
bringing in netbase and
Surely a quick trip to /var/cache/apt/archives and a run of dpkg -i with
the right package names would have fixed this, if apt-get doesn't
install without some extra fiddling this is usually a message to you.
Make damn sure you know what it is doing, especially if you, like me are
several thousand
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Green wrote:
Surely a quick trip to /var/cache/apt/archives and a run of dpkg -i with
the right package names would have fixed this, if apt-get doesn't
apt-get install with the right package names would have also fixed it, and
told you when you finally got the right
another reason why you shouldnt reboot a box from remote :) when one of my
servers needs a reboot i always make sure someone is nearby incase
something goes bad. for the same reason i refuse to attempt a
slink-potato upgrade from remote, too risky.
of course i also pray whenever rebooting a
Try remote rebooting a server with a 120Gig Raid array and 1GB Ram takes
several hours to come up if wants an fsck!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
another reason why you shouldnt reboot a box from remote :) when one of my
servers needs a reboot i always make sure someone is nearby incase
something
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no
network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without
bringing in netbase and it's dependencies via floppy disk.
So uh, why did you let it?
I presume this would have
Just out of curiosity; what did you install that conflicted with netbase and
friends?
Brent
Just out of curiosity; what did you install that conflicted with netbase
and
friends?
I was upgrading mysql-server, of all things. Granted, this was on a system
that hadn't been refreshed in about 3 months or so, so there were about 100
packages that dselect wanted to bring up-to-date.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
It seems so basic. When you say apt-get install ... the plan is clearly
the addition of software to the system. Removal is patently not part of the
plan, unless explicitly acknowledged by the user.
If apt executed removals you were prompted and you
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:13:21PM -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote:
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
So uh, why did you let it?
I presume this would have been your response if I had reported that 'vi' had
deleted my kernel images, too? :)
Why did I let it?!?! Because I was never asked.
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