Re: APT problems (uncaught exception): workaround

2007-01-02 Thread Max Hyre
Bug #400560 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400560 ) has been filed for this failure. It seems to be associated with some sort of earlier failure (power failure in one case, ``failed update'' in the other). I had a failed update earlier, but don't remember the

Re: APT problems (416 error and uncaught exception)

2007-01-01 Thread Chris Lale
A. F. Cano wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:53:32PM +, John Halton wrote: [...] I have resisted using apg-get as I know the aptitude databases would then be out of sync. [...] You could try the magic bullet aptitude keep-all to restore sane behaviour after using apt-get. See

APT problems (416 error and uncaught exception)

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
I'm having problems with updating/installing with aptitude, on a mixed Etch/Sid system. When running aptitude update, the output ends with the following: Err http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable Then when I try to install/dist-upgrade, I get the following

Re: APT problems (416 error and uncaught exception)

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
On 12/28/06, John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems with updating/installing with aptitude, on a mixed Etch/Sid system. When running aptitude update, the output ends with the following: Err http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable Then when

Re: APT problems (416 error and uncaught exception) (RESOLVED)

2006-12-28 Thread John Halton
John Halton wrote: On 12/28/06, John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems with updating/installing with aptitude, on a mixed Etch/Sid system. When running aptitude update, the output ends with the following: Err http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages 416 Requested Range Not

Re: APT problems (416 error and uncaught exception)

2006-12-28 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 04:53:32PM +, John Halton wrote: On 12/28/06, John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Uncaught exception: ../../../src/generic/problemresolver/problemresolver.h:2216: generic_problem_resolverPackageUniverse::generic_problem_resolver(int, int, int, int, unsigned

Re: APT problems: it magically works again...

2006-12-28 Thread A. F. Cano
Mmm... I started digging into /etc/apt, didn't see anything obvious and thus didn't change anything, but the next time I started up aptitude it worked. Strange... A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Lemmen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i have a problem with apt-get. upon running apt-get update or apt-get install, i get some error messages (are attached). this is happening since yesterday, my apt-get used to work until then and i dont remember changing anything of note

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.22.1732 +0200]: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22Dynamic+MMap+ran+out+of+room%22btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky (http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/) -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Lemmen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.22.1732 +0200]: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22Dynamic+MMap+ran+out+of+room%22btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.22.1820 +0200]: i just did as said page advises, and i still get the same error message. Mh. Have you tried increasing the value to 32k? I have never hit the 16k limit, even with stable/testing/unstable/experimental and a bunch of other

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Lemmen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.22.1820 +0200]: i just did as said page advises, and i still get the same error message. Mh. Have you tried increasing the value to 32k? i tried out the following,

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.22.1846 +0200]: APT::Cache-Limit 141943904; woho. I don't even set this anymore and: $ grep -v '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list | wc -l 34 /etc/apt/sources.list Anyway, I think your bzip2 problems may be related to a caching proxy somewhere

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * martin f krafft [Thu, Jun 22 2006, 02:03:55PM]: also sprach Martin Lemmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.22.1846 +0200]: APT::Cache-Limit 141943904; woho. I don't even set this anymore and: $ grep -v '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list | wc -l 34 /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: apt problems

2006-06-22 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.23.0204 +0200]: Not neccesarily. I have seen apt processing spew weird messages WRT broken bzip2 decompression. Apparently something is buggy there, but the problem disappears after rerunning update. Now that you mention it, I did see this

APT problems

2005-12-16 Thread Caleb Walker
Hello all, I recently installed a new computer with the newest copy of the debian testing on it. I got back in the system to add programs and update others with apt-get and I continue to get these errors. Is there a way that I dont know about to get around these? I have also tried to change

apt problems

2005-11-10 Thread Marcelle Santos
hi, I'm trying to change the address used by apt-get. I changed the adddress in apt-setup, but it doesn't work: apt-get continues to search the broken address. does any one how can I make apt-get aware of the changes?

Re: apt problems

2005-11-10 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Marcelle Santos wrote: hi, I'm trying to change the address used by apt-get. I changed the adddress in apt-setup, but it doesn't work: apt-get continues to search the broken address. does any one how can I make apt-get aware of the changes? I usually just edit /etc/apt/sources.lst with

apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Hi, It's been about a week since I can't solve this problem, despite trying several different mirrors. This is what I see: ,- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] apt-get update | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable Release.gpg | Ign http://apt.mepis.org unstable Release | Ign http://apt.mepis.org

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:13:04 -0500 Sebastian Luque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's been about a week since I can't solve this problem, despite trying several different mirrors. This is what I see: ,- | Get:10 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [197B] | Get:11

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Sebastian Luque
Seeker5528 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The non-us repository is not used any more so this is expected and you should remove non-us from your sources.list file. You're right, I just found this out. I came across http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/06/msg00719.html that cleared that

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
Sebastian Luque wrote (Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:12 am): I don't know what's going on in the mirror system. I had some weirdness over the last 3 or 4 days where I wasn't showing any new upgrades. One or two days I don't think anything of it, when it stretches to 3 or 4 I start to wonder.

Re: apt problems

2005-07-26 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:26:13AM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: Sebastian Luque wrote (Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:12 am): I don't know what's going on in the mirror system. I had some weirdness over the last 3 or 4 days where I wasn't showing any new upgrades. One or two days I

Apt problems

2004-06-30 Thread Jonas Jasas
Where that pre-removal script is kept? I gues that problem is in permitions, what other problems can be with that script? Preparing to replace finger 0.17-6 (using .../finger_0.17-7_i386.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Permission denied dpkg: warning - old

Re: Apt problems

2004-06-30 Thread Ricky Clarkson
I'm sure someone will give a better answer, but I'd use strace to find out what file it's trying to execute. I guess somewhere in /var/apt though. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 02:25:34 -0700 (PDT), Jonas Jasas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where that pre-removal script is kept? I gues that problem is in

Re: Apt problems

2004-06-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:25:34AM -0700, Jonas Jasas wrote: Where that pre-removal script is kept? I gues that problem is in permitions, what other problems can be with that script? Preparing to replace finger 0.17-6 (using .../finger_0.17-7_i386.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to

Re: Apt problems

2004-06-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jonas Jasas wrote: Where that pre-removal script is kept? I gues that problem is in permitions, what other problems can be with that script? Preparing to replace finger 0.17-6 (using .../finger_0.17-7_i386.deb) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old pre-removal script: Permission denied

apt problems

2003-07-08 Thread Dirk Ouellette
I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system gets as far as ; Fetched 1500kB in 27s (55.4kB/s) Reading Package Lists... 66% and then hangs. This came on out of nowhere though possibly when I

Re: apt problems

2003-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote: I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system gets as far as ; Well, you might want to

Re: apt problems

2003-07-08 Thread Kent West
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:03:23AM -0700, Dirk Ouellette wrote: I hope I'm not being rude in posting here, but I have a problem with apt on my RedHat 9 box. When I apt-get update or try to upgrade,my system gets as far as ; # apt-get update E: Could not get lock /var/state/apt/lists/lock

Re: More apt-problems.

2003-03-10 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:37:44AM +0100, Jan Johansson wrote: What does this mean? All the dependencies _are_ installed. But why wont php still install? (Debian/Testin) php4 is currently broken in testing Frank scooter:~# apt-get install php4 Reading Package Lists... Done Building

RE: More apt-problems.

2003-03-10 Thread Jan Johansson
You picked the wrong time to be in testing. This is a documented bug, read this for more details: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announc e-200303/msg6.html Well, I am glad that it wasn't just me then. Thankyou. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dselect and apt problems

2003-03-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:11:45PM +, rehm wrote: I'm having problems updating my software list for dselect. Under the debian documentation, if I got anything wrong, to update my dselect list by using iso cd's i made of Woody r3, I would go - apt-cdrom add ..which is succesful for all

apt-problems

2002-10-18 Thread Jacques Kotze
Hi, I am a linux newbie and am attempting my first real Linux installation from scratch. I have only the first cd of Debian woody dist and have managed to install a very basic system from this including X. I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with the full

Re: apt-problems

2002-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 18/10/02 Jacques Kotze did speaketh: I am behind the firewall of my University. There exists an archive with the full resource of Debian behind the firewall that I would like to get access to using apt-get inorder to complete a full package installation of my system. I have

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-04 Thread John Galt
Pretty often actually. Have multiple sources, be prepared to comment out the ones that don't work right now, and re-update and re-upgrade if the situation occurs again. Basically, http.us.debian.org is never the most trustworthy under the best of circumstances, and sometimes can be a real

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-04 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte John Galt so: Pretty often actually. Have multiple sources, be prepared to comment out the ones that don't work right now, and re-update and re-upgrade if the situation occurs again. Basically, http.us.debian.org is never the most trustworthy under the best of

RE: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Mike Kuhar
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org? Mike Kuhar wrote: Good evening Fellow Debians, I went to do an apt-get upgrade, just a few moments ago, after doing an upda te on unstable. It told me I had 54 packages to upgrade. The problem is that only

apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Mike Kuhar
Good evening Fellow Debians, I went to do an apt-get upgrade, just a few moments ago, after doing an update on unstable. It told me I had 54 packages to upgrade. The problem is that only half actually downloaded and upgraded from http.us.debian.org. The rest 404'd on me. What gives? Any one

Re: apt problems with http.us.debian.org?

2001-09-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
Mike Kuhar wrote: Good evening Fellow Debians, I went to do an apt-get upgrade, just a few moments ago, after doing an upda te on unstable. It told me I had 54 packages to upgrade. The problem is that only half actually downloaded and upgraded from http.us.debian.org.

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using .../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 11:32:55 -0700, Forrest English wrote: thneed:/usr/bin# apt-get -o DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite -f install E: Option DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite: Configuration item sepecification must have an =val. did i do somthing stupid? i'm not real familier with what

tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Forrest English
thneed:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 13:53:07 -0700, Forrest English wrote: didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. Bleh. If that didn't work, then 'dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb' definitely should. You could edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/netbase.files,

Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems

2001-06-07 Thread Forrest English
didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. is there a way to disasociate that file with netbase? thneed:~# apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages

Re: apt problems and why?

2001-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get the following error message home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... failed. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it

Re: apt problems and why?

2001-03-17 Thread Raymond Wood
I had something similar happen when I did woody-sid dist-upgrade. Anyway, make sure that the 2 other 'esound' packages are selected for installation also. This solved (one of) my problem(s) - hope it works for you :) R. On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:55:39AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: I get the

Re: apt problems and why?

2001-03-17 Thread Wouter de Vries
Maybe esound-common is still an old version. You could try a apt-get update before trying again, because esound-common could have been updated. Wouter On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 09:12:50AM -0500, Raymond Wood wrote: I had something similar happen when I did woody-sid dist-upgrade. Anyway, make

apt problems and why?

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I get the following error message home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... failed. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed E:

Re: apt problems

2000-12-30 Thread kmself
on Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:41:24PM -0500, Michelle Murrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The result of a dumb mistake: I wanted to upgrade a particular package from woody, and in the middle, it stopped because it didn't have a newer copy of libc6. I decided at that point that I would forgo

apt problems

2000-12-29 Thread Michelle Murrain
The result of a dumb mistake: I wanted to upgrade a particular package from woody, and in the middle, it stopped because it didn't have a newer copy of libc6. I decided at that point that I would forgo the upgrade. However, somehow, part of it got installed somehow, and now I can't install

apt problems

2000-09-29 Thread eric k . wolven
Hi! I recently ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade (I have woody). I get this message: /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared library: libdb.so.3 : cannot open shared object file: no such file or library E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe) E: Failure running script:

Re: apt problems

2000-09-29 Thread Jens Guenther
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:36:38AM -0500, eric k. wolven wrote: Hi! I recently ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade (I have woody). I get this message: /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared library: libdb.so.3 : cannot open See debian weekly news: Be careful. If you have

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-18 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: trick. But what then is the function of the apt.conf file? What am I missing out on? I like fiddling in conf files G You fiddled it wrong.. That config file is not ment for general use, it does 'weird' things. Jason

dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi All I can't seem to get my dselect and apt-get to play niceley. If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: Get:1 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main Packages [847kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com potato/main

Re: dselect/APT problems on potato

2000-01-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Neilen Marais wrote: If I choose the apt method in dselect, and do an update, I get the following problem after the package files have been downloaded: 'rm /etc/apt/apt.conf' Jason

apt(?) problems

1999-10-22 Thread Steve Gore
Whenever I use apt-get install or use apt method in dselect, I get the following error after the files are downloaded: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] /bin/sh: dpkg-preconfig: command not found E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt --priority=low --frontend=dialog returned an error code (127) E:

dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread fairfax
I am having a bit of trouble getting some packages installed from the slink distribution. I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell

Re: dselect/APT problems

1999-06-06 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have main and contrib on CD, and I have non-free in a separate partition on one of my hard drives (I wasn't able to find CD's for this). This was not a problem under the last version, as I could tell dselect that I was mounting from a directory

apt problems

1998-07-17 Thread Robert Kerr
Hi all, when I run dselect using apt as the method, I go to update and I get these errors. Get http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages Error http://www.debian.org frozen/contrib Packages 404 Not Found Get http://www.debian.org frozen/main Packages Error

Re: apt problems

1998-07-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't believe www.debian.org is a site containing Debian packages. The apt package includes a sources.list which contains both us and non-us sites which will work. I have attached a copy. There are others, such as llug.sep.bnl.gov (hopefully README.mirrors will list them some day). Bob On

Re: apt problems

1998-07-17 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: I think the problem may lie in my sources.list. does anyone have an example one that I could look at? I would like to access the frozen us sections, and the non-us section. You need another package installed to do the ftp transfers (see the apt

Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Chris
Hello again, I'm having a problem with apt. I've just done an upgrade of my hamm system with a few updated packages, and now everytime I run apt, it wants to remove its own package. The following is a sample session with apt: mort:~# apt-get update Get ftp://ftp.questnet.net.au

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Steve Mayer
Chris, I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for something = 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being greaterthan or equal to.G Something was posted on this list a few days ago about this

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: Chris, I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for something = 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being greaterthan or equal to.G Something was

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 08:36:09AM -0700, Steve Mayer wrote: I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for something = 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being greaterthan or equal to.G

Re: Apt problems

1998-06-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Steve Mayer wrote: Chris, I ran into this same problem after updating to the lastest libc6_2.0.7r-2. The dependency in the latest apt is looking for something = 2.0.7pre1-0. I guess that it doesn't see 2.0.7r-2 as being greaterthan or