Re: [LUG] poorly Debian box

[Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 22:40, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Saturday 23 October 2004 10:06 pm, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > THis was all going wonderfully, when it decided to (apt-get) upgrade
> > glibc
>
> That should have been:
> # apt-get install glibc
> apt-get upgrade glibc just runs a normal update (of all packages).
That is what it was doing...

> Thereagain, you already had glibc so I'm not sure what you were trying to
> achieve.

> > Failed during the process
>
> what was the error?
Ceased to go.  Hard hang.

> > I had a guddle around with a copy of Knoppix and tried moving the various
> > libraries to where they said they should live
>
> ??? Why?
Because it failed while updating the libraries, and continued to fail.
> No wonder if you start moving libraries to Knoppix locations.
Debian locations, as read from the package.

> Have you kept any notes about where they should be moved back to?
Same place.

> See if apt-cache is working.
> $ apt-cache search gnucash
>
> Look for problems in
> /var/cache/apt/
Looks healthy.  it included the new version of glibc as demanded by something 
that had been updated.

I suspect the hardware is not fully compatible.
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Adrian Midgley                   Open Source software is better
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