Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Adding this up here as a quick read: If this was installation via debs, I'm out of the conversation. If it was about untarring [zipped files] and you can repeatedly reproduce the issue now that you have seen this, PLEASE don't share the package name(s) publicly. They could be... dissected and then

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/21/21, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >> frank@fedora ~$ stat / >>File: / >>Size: 4096Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory >> Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 2

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 7/21/21 12:24 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: frank@fedora ~$ stat /   File: /   Size: 4096    Blocks: 8  IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 2   Links: 18 Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) 

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:57 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:39:49PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: (0/root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank) > > > Actually, access 555 means everyone can Read and Execute, but nobody can > > Update. > > > >

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:39:49PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: (0/root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank) > Actually, access 555 means everyone can Read and Execute, but nobody can > Update. > > Root usually overrides that, which could explain why it still

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:12 PM Frank McCormick wrote: > On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick < > debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > >> Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > >> > >> > >> Setting

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick > > wrote: > > > Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > > > > > > > > > Setting up systemd

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > frank@fedora ~$ stat / >   File: / >   Size: 4096    Blocks: 8  IO Block: 4096 directory > Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 2   Links: 18 > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: ( 1000/

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run.

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > > > Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → > /run during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition > / → /run during

Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/lock. Detected unsafe path transition /

Re: Help! jessie -> stretch upgrade problems

2017-09-24 Thread David Christensen
On 09/22/17 22:42, D. R. Evans wrote: I just upgraded my main desktop system (64-bit) from jessie to stretch, and there seems to be several problems, ... https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/09/msg00828.html David

[SOLVED] : Re: Help! jessie -> stretch upgrade problems

2017-09-23 Thread D. R. Evans
D. R. Evans wrote on 09/22/2017 11:42 PM: > I just upgraded my main desktop system (64-bit) from jessie to stretch, and > there seems to be several problems, but all probably related and caused by a > single issue somehow related to the kernel; but I don't have any idea how to > move forward.

Help! jessie -> stretch upgrade problems

2017-09-22 Thread D. R. Evans
I just upgraded my main desktop system (64-bit) from jessie to stretch, and there seems to be several problems, but all probably related and caused by a single issue somehow related to the kernel; but I don't have any idea how to move forward. Following the upgrade: 1. the expected kernel

Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

2017-09-21 Thread deloptes
Hi jpff wrote: > 1) Why will vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 not load (says loading and the does > nothing for over 30mins) when vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 does load? > don't know - I had same issue In my case I found out that initrd was broken. I still have to unpack the initrd copy /sbin/switch_root and

Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

2017-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 09/20/17 08:32, jpff wrote: I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. ... While some people succeed at major version upgrades, the few times I have attempted it resulted in breakage, frustration, and lots of wasted

Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

2017-09-20 Thread jpff
I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. I understand this needs to be done in two stages, wheezy->jessie->stretch, but I still need advice as I cannot find out the solution to my problem. I tried upgrading from Wheezy

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-18 Thread hvw59601
Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 02:42 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start

Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-17 Thread Frank McCormick
This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-v dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version

Re: Sid upgrade problems

2012-04-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/04/12 12:57 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: This is what I saw after the last upgrade on my Sid installation: Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ... dpkg: warning: version 'v' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-v dpkg:

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 16:24:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't

Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Nick Douma
I just tried to upgrade my Lenny installation to Squeeze using the following method: I changed my sources.list from deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade udev and proceed with the updgrade. -- Jordan Metzmeier

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Nick Douma
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade udev and proceed

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze kernel, reboot, then upgrade udev and proceed with the

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't quote me). This means you need to first upgrade to the squeeze

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Nick Douma
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with sysrq_deprecated=n (I am going off memory here so don't

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier wrote: This issue is because the new udev requires a .31 kernel with

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Nick Douma
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:44:12PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:04:07 Jordan Metzmeier

Re: Lenny to Squeeze upgrade problems

2010-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 17:07:09 Nick Douma wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:44:12PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2010 16:27:08 Nick Douma wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:24:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/2010 04:16 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread John O Laoi
Hello, I am using Lenny. When I try to upgrade, this is what happens: # aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 13:57 +, John O Laoi wrote: # aptitude safe-upgrade [...] cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12 is installed. [...] Any ideas? I assume that aptitude needs to remove a package in order to satisfy other packages (cvsnt) dependencies/conflicts. Try full-upgrade

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-23 08:57, John O Laoi wrote: Hello, I am using Lenny. When I try to upgrade, this is what happens: # aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done [snip] Resolving dependencies... The following packages have unmet dependencies: cvsnt: Conflicts: cvs but 1:1.12.13-12

aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread John O Laoi
The following is my sources.list: $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.0 _Lenny_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20090214-16:03]/ lenny main Why the mixed

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 15:25 +, John O Laoi wrote: Why the mixed system? Apologies, I am using Squeeze. The Lenny CDs are commented out. Important information - make sure to mention it next time. cvsnt conflicts with cvs.  You can't have both at the same time. Should I remove one of

Re: aptitude upgrade problems

2010-03-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-23 10:32, Wolodja Wentland wrote: [snip] Read the manpage - In a nutshell: upgrade Deprecated safe-upgradeUpgrade listed/all packages to newest version, don't remove packages don't remove packages That's why OP is getting the failure. cvs and cvsnt

Safe-upgrade problems

2009-12-20 Thread Wayne linux...@gmail.com
Hey all An upgrade on sid on 12/18 as me stumped. The bootup of that partition hangs at USBHID 2.6 . Have tried on 2 different kernels and both just stop. A testing upgrade on 12/17 and another on 12/19 boot but have a number of programs failing to start. Clanv, Dovecot, atd, and

Debian Etch Upgrade Problems with Mail Check Applet and Evolution

2007-04-18 Thread John W. M. Stevens
Hello, I've recently upgraded from Sarge to Etch (the full monty, I'm now running a 2.6 kernel) and my mail check applet has gone away, and the evolution package is still marked conspicuously as a sarge package - ic evolution 2.0.4-2sarge1 The groupware suite When I tried to download

Kernel upgrade problems (again) - 2.6.11 - 2.6.18, video pooched

2007-02-24 Thread Michael Bonert
I tried upgrading the kernel today on my machine and have a problem that is very similar to about a year ago... that I never completely figured-out. I think the problem I'm having is the same as before-- and it's described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg03029.html I

etch upgrade problems (was Re: update messages)

2006-12-28 Thread Digby Tarvin
I'm now trying to work out why apt-get install libx11-dev results in apt wanting to delete a large number of X related packages... I noted that 'gnome' was one of the packages to be removed rather then upgraded to the latest version, so I tried to force an upgrade to see if there was

gnucash/libffi upgrade problems: work-around

2006-09-14 Thread Ross Boylan
I just did a dist-upgrade in testing and ended up unable to proceed or back up with the install, and key system services (e.g., DNS) not running. If this should happen to affect you, I finally worked around it by doing(*) apt-get -remove libffi libgwrap-runtime0-dev g-wrap gnucash The upgrade

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Kevin Mark] I thought that 'reinstall' seems very time consuming and thought that there may be a diffent way to do it. Would this work for (most|all)? cheers, Yes, I believe so. So the latest incarnation of the script to fix this problem uses this apporach. It is in sysv-rc version

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bastian Venthur] Looks like there is still something left to do for the user after this step. Eg, on my machine KDM did not start up automatically anymore, as well as WLAN. Those are two things I encountered directly and are probably easy to fix, but I'm quite uncertain if there is something

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:25:41 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Paul Scott
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before this morning. sed -n /installed sysvinit

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks existed,

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before this morning. sed -n /installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p

Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks existed, and add them if they were missing. This broke all packages being upgraded after the

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in /etc/init.d/. This way proved to be too quick, trying to reinstall removed but not purged packages with init.d scripts left behind in /etc/init.d/. I recommend using something like this instead, to only

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Those with packages being broken from this bug can fix it by using 'apt-get --reinstall install package' on the affected packages. A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in /etc/init.d/. for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort

Re: post-2.6 upgrade problems

2004-11-04 Thread Aaron Thoreson
Thanks, Nicos. Unfortunately, the new initscripts wants libc6 = 2.3.2. I tried to manually mount devpts but the problem remained. Will 2.6 and stable just not jive? I'm ok sticking with 2.4.27 if that's the case, I just need to get away from 2.4.19 because the xfs patch is no longer available

post-2.6 upgrade problems

2004-11-03 Thread Aaron Thoreson
Hello, I've seen this about, but not been able to find satisfactory resolution. After an upgrade from 2.4.19 stable to 2.6.9 custom (maybe too ambitious?) I've lost the ability to ssh into the upgraded box. auth.log is reporting error: openpty: No such file or directory error: session_pty_req:

Re: post-2.6 upgrade problems

2004-11-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday November 3 2004 23:34, Aaron Thoreson wrote: After an upgrade from 2.4.19 stable to 2.6.9 custom (maybe too ambitious?) I've lost the ability to ssh into the upgraded box. auth.log is reporting error: openpty: No such file or directory error: session_pty_req: session 0 alloc

Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread . .
Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does not upgrade anything. It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly

Re: Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello '. .'! On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 10:18:30AM +0100, . . wrote: I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does not upgrade anything. It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree...

Re: Apt-get upgrade problems

2003-11-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:18:30 +0100, . . wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem with apt-get. I installed a package manually with dpkg after apt-get ran into a conflict and since then apt-get does not upgrade anything. It gives: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: Kernel Upgrade Problems

2003-08-27 Thread Andy Neillans
Nick, When I tried insmod 8139too (the module for the network card), I get a number of unresolved symbol errors. What happens if you 'modprobe 8139too'? That one made me think - the error indicated that it could not find the hardware. Did an lspci and noticed that the kernel had not detected

Re: Kernel Upgrade Problems

2003-08-26 Thread Nick Hastings
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030826 10:27]: snip linux-2.2 - linux-2.4 When I tried insmod 8139too (the module for the network card), I get a number of unresolved symbol errors. What happens if you 'modprobe 8139too'? Any ideas? Using insmod does nothing to sort out module

Kernel Upgrade Problems

2003-08-25 Thread debian
Hi all, I am fairly new to Debian, but have used Mandrake and Redhat for a couple of years. I have had a Debian Woody box running for a few months running the stock 2.2.20-idepci kernel, and decided it was time to upgrade. The box is a AMD XP 1800 with 256Mb DDR266 RAM. I ran: apt-get install

Re: More dist-upgrade problems on stable

2003-06-04 Thread Ben Kal
On 2 Jun 2003 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 0%Building Dependency Tree... 50%Building Dependency Tree...

More dist-upgrade problems on stable

2003-06-03 Thread stan
Just when I thought things were about to get back to working on my testing amchines, I ran into this on one of them: Script started on Mon Jun 2 09:38:12 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Package Lists... 100%Reading Package Lists... Done Building

Re: More dist-upgrade problems on stable

2003-06-03 Thread stan
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 05:51:15PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:47:54AM -0400, stan wrote: What can I do to fix this? You can try apt-get -f install or you can get aptitude, hit g, find the package marked in red and purge (hit _) hit, and then hit g to Go finish

Help Please :: Kernel Upgrade Problems with Booting from Raid HPT370

2003-01-28 Thread Aaron
Hi All I run an ABIT KT7A-Raid Mainboard with two Segate 40gig disks connected and striped with raid0. I have recently installed debian from the 3.0 ISO using the 2.4.18-bf24.4 Kernel. The system works fine, but of course I am not satisfied with the kernel, and I wish to configure and

[MAILapt-get upgrade problems

2002-05-10 Thread steve downes
Just done my usual apt-get update, apt-get upgrade 2 of my machines have kept back a number of upgrades without explanation. Any ideas why this is or where I can look to find out. Had a hunt through the log files to no effect. The kept back packages are:- abiword afterstep gettext gimp1.2

Re: [MAILapt-get upgrade problems

2002-05-10 Thread dman
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:30:07PM +0100, steve downes wrote: | Just done my usual apt-get update, apt-get upgrade 2 of my machines | have kept back a number of upgrades without explanation. Any ideas | why this is or where I can look to find out. Had a hunt through the | log files to no effect.

Re: [MAILapt-get upgrade problems

2002-05-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 03:06:55PM -0500, dman wrote: The 'upgrade' action will not : o remove packages o install new packages o install a package marked as 'hold' with dpkg --set-selections ... and, to complete this explanation, the 'dist-upgrade' action may be closer to

upgrade problems with install-info hangups

2002-04-08 Thread Alan E . Davis
Does everyone who upgrades have snags with install-info? I received an email when I posted a similar inquiry some months ago, that someone had never had such a problem. But especially when I am doing an update/upgrade after a long interval, with, say 200MB of files (sid), over several years I

apt-get dist-upgrade problems

2002-02-14 Thread Jason Majors
I'm trying to do apt-get dist-upgrade with the following sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sid/non-US main contrib non-free I get the error: Setting up libc6 (2.2.5-3) ... dpkg: error processing libc6

Re: potato-woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

2002-01-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:26:12PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3. attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message. I installed libc6 from

potato-woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)

2002-01-13 Thread John Dalbec
apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3. attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message. I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f install' worked again. I set up

libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-15 Thread Stephen Handley
Hi all, In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to reinstall the old one .. just to make sure that's what had caused all

Re: libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-15 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a heap of stuff has compatibility issues. I tried removing the new libc6 to reinstall

Re: libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 10:30:13 -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:51:56AM -0700, Stephen Handley wrote: In an attempt to get the IPMASQADM package up and running I went and upgraded to libc6 2.2.3-9 (or whatever the trailing numbers are). Well now a heap of stuff has

libc6 upgrade problems

2001-08-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay, so I've brought this on myself. I was trying to install openafs-client, which seemed to require openafs-krb5, which seemed to require libc6 from testing. So, on my potato 2.2r3 machine, I downloaded libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb and did dpkg --install libc6_2.2.3-9_i386.deb. It seemed to work

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself doesn't use it AFAIK. dpkg does. if you do dpkg -i foo.deb, it

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-16 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Adam == Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file needs to be up to date... but only for dselect and for manual browsing (do that quite often myself). dpkg itself

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote: But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at ftp.us.debian.org there is

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-13 Thread Graham Williams
Received Fri 13 Jul 2001 9:16pm +1000 from Joost Kooij: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:58:19PM -0400, John Covici wrote: But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there Sorry not to have any useful

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-13 Thread Dave McCracken
--On Friday, July 13, 2001 22:37:02 +1000 Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite a few times I've apt-get update. I then check to see which packages have been upgraded wrt my installation, then go to install them with apt-get install and the deb files are not there. Checking the

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-13 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:20:53PM +0200, J?rgen A. Erhard wrote: Joost == Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joost If you do a dselect-upgrade with apt-get, it will use the Joost dpkg available packages database. Bullshit. (Sorry, but I even did an strace on apt-get

apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread John Covici
I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not there? I am running woody here and here is the relevant portion of the output. 321 packages

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote: I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some missing files and indeed if I ftp to the debian site the files are not there -- but why do the package lists point to files which are not there? I am running woody

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread John Covici
I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they be out of date? On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Joost Kooij wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:12:41AM -0400, John Covici wrote: I am trying to do apt-get dselect-upgrade and I am getting some missing files and indeed if I ftp to the

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they be out of date? 'apt-get update' only updates apt's available file, not dpkg's. 'dselect update' updates both. However, if you're using apt, then this shouldn't matter. It may just be that

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote: I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they be out of date? If you do a dselect-upgrade with apt-get, it will use the dpkg available packages database. Apt normally uses its own available packages database,

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread John Covici
I did a dselect update from within dselect but got the same missing packages as before when I did apt-get dselect-upgrade. I have not had any problems doing it this way before, but in the last two days its not working. Looking on the debian site, I cannot find an up to date binary for

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Joost == Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joost On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote: I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they be out of date? Joost If you do a dselect-upgrade with apt-get, it will use the Joost dpkg

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread aidanc
Breathe, man, breathe... On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:20:53 Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: Joost == Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joost On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0400, John Covici wrote: I just did apt-get update before doing the upgrade -- how could they be out of date?

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread John Covici
But this doesn't solve my problem -- why am I getting errors which say no such file or directory -- its looking for a file which isn't there -- but why is it looking? If I look in the relevant directory at ftp.us.debian.org there is no util-linux later than April 15 which I already have -- and

upgrade problems

2001-06-21 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hi there, I've tried to upgrade my 2.2r0 to r3. This is the output I've got: debconf: failed to initialize frontend: Slang debconf: (Unable to load Term::Stool -- is libterm-stool-perl installed?) (Reading database ... 53957 files and directories currently installed.) Removing slapd ... dpkg

gnome upgrade problems

2001-06-11 Thread Rafael Sasaki
I`m needing some help. Something got wrong when I was updating Gnome. There was an error message and gnome-games didn`t configure. Now I can`t configure it by apt-get and I can`t remove it either. I can`t even start X with gnome-session on my .xinitrc. When I try it this message is thrown by

Upgrade problems to 2.2

2001-03-04 Thread Genti Daci
Hi from Genti, I'm currently using Debian 2.1 with Kernel 2.0.38 As stated on the Release notes on upgrade procedure to newly 2.2 Release I did a full upgrade from the internet. Everything went fine with downloading new packages and at the moment of the upgrade at a certain level at the beginig

upgrade-problems with mount

2001-02-27 Thread Stephen Rueger
Hello! The last time I made apt-get upgrade, it tried to update the package mount to version 2.10s-2, but the following error occured: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archive/mount_2.10s-2.deb (--unpack): unable to make backup link of '/bin/mount' before installing new

SOLVED!: Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-26 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Here's how I ironed out the problems in my system after upgrading from Potato to Woody: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [250201 21:56]: I was pretty sure everything other than my GUI and Sound was working properly based on watching the screen messages during boot and perusing dmesg. The only problem I

Upgrade Problems (Stable-Testing)

2001-02-25 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
Good evening everyone, This is my first experience with upgrading from one version to another. I love the debian apt-get tool; for routine upgrades and keeping my system in top order with security updates it has been the greatest help. The upgrade from stable to testing has not been fun so

upgrade problems with xfree and xserver-common 4.0

2001-02-24 Thread admiral thrawn
I tried to upgrade useing apt-get upgrade Sources.list = deb ftp://debian.site.org unstable /yada /yada /yada ( Please note the unstable part. ) And it upgraded my Xfree and xserver-common to 4.0 somthin. even tho my xserver-svga package was still 3.0 somthin. needless to say... #

Re: New woody upgrade problems

2000-12-17 Thread Bill Jonas
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 11:42:25PM -0500, Casey Henderson wrote: Anybody got any ideas on how to sort this out? I've run into that several times myself doing daily dist-upgrades on my work laptop. (Yes, unstable is bad on a production machine, but I need X4 for the LCD screen, and the potato X4

Re: New woody upgrade problems

2000-12-17 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 23:42:25 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Casey Henderson) wrote: Here's a problem related to your problem. I got the same error when trying to install xlibs. Earlier, I had received a warning about the app-defaults thing. I moved the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults to

New woody upgrade problems

2000-12-16 Thread Dan Griswold
Hey there Debianites, Like a junkie unable to resist the fix, I did an apt-get upgrade today. Now I have problems getting the upgrade to complete. During the upgrade, I got this error: Preparing to replace xlibs 4.0.1-10 (using .../xlibs_4.0.1-12_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlibs ...

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