On Friday 15 August 2008 02:55, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:00:11 -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > > I recently installed in a new Lenovo ThinkPad R61 Lenny using the Lenny > > Beta2 installer. The installation went -- as far as I could see -- as > > it should have. > > > > Soon after installation I wanted to upgrade the installed packages. > > First I updated /etc/apt/sources.list, including adding to it > > debian-volatile so that I could install the clamav set of anti-virus > > packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. > > Do you really need volatile when you run Lenny? I thought it was only > necessary to keep certain fast-moving packages up to date for Etch > users. Are volatile packages even supposed to work on Lenny already? > (Of course, things will be different after Lenny goes stable and new > volatile updates become available.) > > > packages and get the periodic updates to tzdata. Then I ran (as root) > > "aptitude update", followed by "aptitude upgrade". It downloaded some > > 33 package upgrades, including a new kernel (2.6.25-2-686 to replace > > 2.6.24) and tzdata. > > > > The package setup only got as far as tzdata, when the machine hung. To > > get the machine going again I had to turn it off using the on/off button > > and do a cold boot without a proper shutdown. > > Side note: Check out Alt-SysRq to shut down the system more cleanly in > such situations: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s8.5.2 > > > After rebooting I ran aptitude again. It returned the message that > > aptitude had been interrupted, and to get it running again I had to run > > "dpkg --reconfigure -a". I tried to do so several times; each time it > > tried to set up tzdata, only getting as far as to say what the current > > time zone is before hanging up the machine. > > We need to see the complete output of the ""dpkg --reconfigure -a" > command. You can try to redirect it to a file (both STDOUT and STDERR), > which hopefully will be usable if you sync the drives with Alt-SysRq-s > before rebooting the frozen machine. If this does not work then you have > to write the messages down and type them yourself, or you could > photograph them and make the picture available somewhere.
Don't you two mean dpkg --configure -a ? > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]