On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gary Roach <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roach<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio "laptop?" that I am upgrading from >>> Lenny >>> to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the >>> installation >>> of netatalk started; a program that I really don't need. I get: >>> >>> hostname: Unknown host >>> >>> First /etc/hostname is filled in. When I attempt to reinstall I get the >>> same >>> type of error and the process aborts. When I try to remove or purge the >>> application I get the same result. An of course, Aptitude won't finish >>> the >>> upgrade installation because of this error. I get essentially the same >>> result with dpkg. How can I get out of this mess. Help! >>> >> >> Take a look at the netatalk maintainer scripts in "/var/lib/dpkg/info" >> to see why they are failing. >> > > The /bin/hostname is not returning the hostname. Is this a bug?
Check "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/init.d/hostname.sh" and whether there is an Sxxhostname.sh in "/etc/rcS.d". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
