apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread gregory duchesnes
Hi all, I have a problem with apt-get when upgrading kernel-image, here is what i got : # apt-get upgrade Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait Les paquets suivants seront mis à jour : kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 1 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 12:43 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with apt-get when upgrading kernel-image, here is what i got : # apt-get upgrade ... utilisant .../kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386_2.6.8-16sarge1_i386.deb) ... The directory /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386 still

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread gregory duchesnes
Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything and i don't know what i could remove from / Oliver Elphick wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 12:43 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with apt-get when upgrading kernel-image, here is what i got :

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 14:14 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything and i don't know what i could remove from / It all depends what you have installed. What might be simpler is to swap your /tmp and / partitions: reboot

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything and i don't know what i could remove from / Have you tried apt-get clean? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread gregory duchesnes
Yes i did, didn't help. Listen guys, i have 36Mb of modules in /lib/modules, what would happen if i erase (or just move for the moment) modules that i'm sure i don't need, like (isdn drivers)? Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 09:08 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know where i could find those 3Mb? I don't wnanna break anything and i don't know what i could remove from / Have you tried apt-get clean? That empties /var/cache/apt,

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:11 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Yes i did, didn't help. Listen guys, i have 36Mb of modules in /lib/modules, what would happen if i erase (or just move for the moment) modules that i'm sure i don't need, like (isdn drivers)? No problem. IF they aren't used,

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread gregory duchesnes
Well lsmod gives me this : Module Size Used by ipv6 229892 14 ipt_LOG 6272 13 ipt_limit 2688 15 ipt_state 2304 26 ip_conntrack_ftp 72240 0 ip_conntrack 32908 2 ipt_state,ip_conntrack_ftp

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Marsh
On 12/16/05, gregory duchesnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well lsmod gives me this : [snipped] Is there a quick way to get the list of modules and drivers i can erase? I'd run the output of lsmod through sort and keep that in one window for easy reference. In another window, I'd run $ find

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 15:25 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: Is there a quick way to get the list of modules and drivers i can erase? Try this script: #!/bin/bash export module for m in $(find /lib/modules -name '*.ko') do module=$(basename $(basename $m) .ko) if [ -z $((echo

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
Well, you have only 6,7M free on /boot device. Whole disk is partitioned wery strangely. I would propose for desktop station: 1G /boot 1G swap 1G /var/log rest / Or something else, but defitely not, what you have now. I would propose you to reinstall system and make bether partitioning. Dexter

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread gregory duchesnes
This is not a desktop station... Dexter wrote: Well, you have only 6,7M free on /boot device. Whole disk is partitioned wery strangely. I would propose for desktop station: 1G /boot 1G swap 1G /var/log rest / Or something else, but defitely not, what you have now. I would propose you to

Re: apt-get upgrade fails due to kernel-image problem

2005-12-16 Thread Dexter
Than see some documentation. E.g. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html Now you have problem with disk space /boot. Later, you can have problem with space on / or on /home. On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 17:26 +0100, gregory duchesnes wrote: This is not a desktop station...

mkinitrd ? kernel image problem !!

2000-08-30 Thread Tommy Wu
Hi! I've found that there is no mkinitrd commnad in Debian. Is there any tools or package can do the same thing like mkinitrd in RedHat ? In RedHat: Use mkinitrd I can give a new pathname for new kernel's modules. Like /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17-1 with /lib/modules/2.2.17-1 and

Re: mkinitrd ? kernel image problem !!

2000-08-30 Thread Eric G . Miller
See kernel-package. It's the Debian way to build an install kernels. Takes care of all that stuff... $ cd $HOME/src/kernel-source-X.X.X $ make menuconfig $ make-kpkg clean $ fakeroot make-kpkg --revision 5:myhost.1.0 kernel_image $ su Password: $ dpkg -i ../kernel-image*.deb $ reboot You might

Re: kernel-image problem

1998-08-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Could you copy the exact error message and post it here? It is hard to tell exactly what is happening and how to help you fix it. manoj -- Preudhomme's Law of Window Cleaning: It's on the other side. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/

Re: kernel-image problem

1998-08-15 Thread Ralph Winslow
When George Bonser wrote, I replied: Thank you, George! That fixed it - I really must read the dselect and dpkg documentation in depth one of these days. On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've re-built my kernel so as to enable the sound card and now deselect(apt) wants

kernel-image problem

1998-08-14 Thread Ralph Winslow
I've re-built my kernel so as to enable the sound card nad noe deselect(apt) wants desparately to upgrade my kernel-image to a newer version. I minused it, and now it asks to remove the kernel and when I decline, it gives a configuration error. How can I trick dselect into accepting my kernel