On Thu, 21 Aug 1997, Charles Blair wrote:
Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
Yeah, this is a common problem. You should not upgrade x with dselect
when running it in an xterm. Actually, I believe to have seen it once,
somewhere in some documentation, but I can't remember where. Maybe I
just remember it from neing mentioned on
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
I am currently working on a sort of HOWTO for dselect. It seems to
be a good idea to include a separate section dedicated to possible x
hassles.
there's one other similar gotcha which i've run into a
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
'single' still has many daemon processes running - you can do some
repair or maintainence work in single mode but you can't safely do an
fsck because the disks are mounted rw.
some other tasks (like moving a filesystem from one partition to
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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
you should not upgrade ssh when dselect or dpkg is running inside
a ssh session.
If anybody else knows of any more gotchas with dselect, I'd love to hear
that.
Marco Shinobu Matsumura wrote:
.. I think it`d be interesting to describe what
was my mistake: after following all the how to update from an existing
debian-1.2 instructions, I started dselect in a Xterm, and in the
middle of the process dselect asked: In order to upgrade to XFree3.3 I
Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
able to get on. Even though I
Thanks to Joost Kooi for suggesting I could bypass my mis-installed
X installation by typing ``linux single'' at the LILO prompt. This
allowed me to delete some stuff and salvage my system.
As a minor matter, typing ``linux emergency'' did not work. I was
able to get on. Even
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