Eric, a reboot and redownload of the file later, and it works again. I think we had to manually apt-get install tetex-base .. and as for the dpkg -i line, before we rebooted, it would hang at that too. After the reboot, it works again.
<shrug> Thanks for your help. :) I hope someone can figure out from the little scattered bits what broke... :) On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 02:55:40PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Slink installed without trouble... the upgrade to potato is breaking on > > tetex-base.. > > Ah, good. > > > Here is a bit of a cut'n'paste: > > Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main tetex-base 1.0-4 [11.0MB] > > Ok. This is the same version I have installed. I didn't have any problems. > Check to make sure that your download succeeded correctly: > > lbscissors% md5sum /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-4_all.deb > b7b824f9a4d7afacec82b0bc37bcfd45 > /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-4_all.deb > > > Fetched 10.9MB in 2m18s (78.2kB/s) > > > > Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base. > > (Reading database ... 28838 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace tetex-base 0.9.981113-1 (using > > .../tetex-base_1.0-4_all.deb) ... > > Unpacking replacement tetex-base ... > > > > And, a ps aux shows these that I think are involved: > > root 1676 16.2 15.0 10064 9412 tty2 D 04:36 9:17 dpkg --unpack > > netstd_3.07-10.deb libpng2_1.0.3-1.deb libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-2.deb > > tet ... > > > > root 4491 11.3 17.6 11692 11056 ttyp0 T 05:33 0:02 > > /usr/bin/dpkg --unpack /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-4_all.deb > > /var/cache/apt/archi > > root 4499 0.1 0.6 1104 424 ttyp0 T 05:33 0:00 dpkg-deb > > --fsys-tarfile /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-4_all.deb > > root 4500 6.1 0.6 1108 428 ttyp0 T 05:33 0:01 dpkg-deb > > --fsys-tarfile /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-4_all.deb > > root 4501 3.2 0.6 1348 428 ttyp0 T 05:33 0:00 gzip -dc > > Ah, that's interesting. It never even finishes unpacking. Which version > of dpkg do you have installed? > > > What happens when you try: > > dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0-4.deb > > without going through apt? > > Eric -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
