On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 June 2011 16:55:43 Lisi wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 June 2011 15:29:22 Mark Panen wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Thursday 09 June 2011 14:21:12 Mark Panen wrote:
>> > >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > On Thursday 09 June 2011 12:52:41 Mark Panen wrote:
>> > >> >> > And at the risk of seeming even more repetitious:
>> > >> >> > Could you run apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade and
>> > >> >> > post what you get?  Also it is worth posting the present state of
>> > >> >> > your /etc/network/interfaces file.  That just _might_ give us
>> > >> >> > some clues!
>> > >> >> >
>> > >> >> > Lisi
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> yes i have tried them all, everyone.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I'm sorry Mark, but without the information that I have asked for,
>> > >> > several times now, I really can't help you.  And I fear that no-one
>> > >> > else will be able to either.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > If you change your mind and are prepared to give the information,
>> > >> > then I'll see whether there is anything else I can do.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Lisi
>> > >>
>> > >> apt-get update
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze Release.gpg
>> > >> Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en
>> > >> Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib
>> > >> Translation-en_ZA Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze/main
>> > >> Translation-en Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze/main
>> > >> Translation-en_ZA Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/
>> > >> squeeze/non-free Translation-en Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/
>> > >> squeeze/non-free Translation-en_ZA Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org
>> > >> squeeze-updates Release.gpg
>> > >> Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/contrib
>> > >> Translation-en Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/
>> > >> squeeze-updates/contrib Translation-en_ZA Hit
>> > >> http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates Release.gpg
>> > >> Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib Translation-en
>> > >> Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/contrib
>> > >> Translation-en_ZA Ign http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/
>> > >> squeeze-updates/main Translation-en Ign
>> > >> http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates/main
>> > >> Translation-en_ZA Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze Release
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze-updates Release
>> > >> Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en
>> > >> Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main Translation-en_ZA
>> > >> Ign http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/non-free
>> > >> Translation-en Ign http://security.debian.org/
>> > >> squeeze/updates/non-free
>> > >> Translation-en_ZA Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates
>> > >> Release Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze/main Sources
>> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main Sources
>> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib Sources
>> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free Sources
>> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/main amd64 Packages
>> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib amd64 Packages
>> > >> Hit http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze/contrib Sources
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze/non-free Sources
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze/main amd64 Packages
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze/contrib amd64 Packages
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze/non-free amd64 Packages
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze-updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze-updates/contrib Sources
>> > >> Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze-updates/main amd64
>> > >> Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org
>> > >> squeeze-updates/contrib amd64 Packages Hit http://mirrors.kernel.org
>> > >> squeeze-updates/main amd64 Packages Reading package lists... Done
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> apt-get dist-upgrade
>> > >> Reading package lists... Done
>> > >> Building dependency tree
>> > >> Reading state information... Done
>> > >> Calculating upgrade... Done
>> > >> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> cat /etc/network/interfaces
>> > >> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
>> > >> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>> > >>
>> > >> # The loopback network interface
>> > >> auto lo
>> > >> iface lo inet loopback
>> > >>
>> > >> # The primary network interface
>> > >> allow-hotplug eth0
>> > >> #NetworkManager#iface eth0 inet static
>> > >>
>> > >> iface eth0 inet static
>> > >>         address 192.168.1.103
>> > >>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>> > >>         network 192.168.0.0
>> > >>         broadcast 192.168.0.255
>> > >>         gateway 192.168.1.254
>> > >>         # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if
>> > >> installed dns-nameservers 192.168.1.254
>> > >>
>> > >> #auto eth0
>> > >> #iface eth0 inet static
>> > >> #address 192.168.1.103
>> > >> #netmask 255.255.255.0
>> > >
>> > > On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong.  You
>> > > started with 6.0.0 and now have 6.0.1, so you have clearly done some
>> > > upgrading. update and dist-upgrade both agree that there are no updates
>> > > available. Since the system upgraded to 6.0.1 without your realising
>> > > it, perhaps it has kept up with any updates that there are.  A slimmed
>> > > down Squeeze is not going to have many updates.
>> > >
>> > > But I meant to ask you for your sources.list and mistakenly asked you
>> > > for /etc/apt/interfaces, which you had told me was now working.  Sorry.
>> > >
>> > > :-( Could you post your sources.list?  There are some strange lines in
>> > >
>> > > the updates and I have not come across this format, and I would like to
>> > > see where they come from.  Perhaps someone else has seen this and I am
>> > > showing my ignorance?  E.g.<Translation-en Ign
>> > > http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/>, <Translation-en_ZA Hit
>> > > http://mirrors.kernel.org squeeze Release>.  In my experience the
>> > > language info comes at the end of the line, e.g. <Ign
>> > > http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main Translation-en_GB>, <Ign
>> > > http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_GB>.  This machine is
>> > > running Lenny, but I have just checked to make sure that Squeeze (on my
>> > > granddaughter's box) does indeed do the same and that it is not my
>> > > memory playing me false.  It does.
>> > >
>> > > Lisi
>> >
>> > cat /etc/apt/sources.list
>> > #
>> >
>> > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD
>> > Binary-1 20110205-18:15]/ squeeze contrib main
>> >
>> > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official amd64 DVD
>> > Binary-1 20110205-18:15]/ squeeze contrib main
>> >
>> > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.1a Update DVD 20110322: amd64 DVD
>> > 1]/ squeeze contrib main non-free
>> > deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
>> > deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
>> >
>> > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
>> > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
>> >
>> > deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib
>> > deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main contrib
>>
>> You have a couple of things obviously not there that I find useful, and one
>> there that I have never had: the kernel ones.  I get updated kernels
>> without having it.  But I also have a basic one and volatile (for things
>> like clamav that are obviously useless if they are not kept up to date).
>>
>> Try adding the following to your sources.list and see if it makes any
>> difference:
>>
>> <quote>
>> deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>> deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ lenny main
>>
>> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib
>> non-free
>> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
>> </quote>
>>
>> Obviously, change the mirror if you would prefer to do so.
>>
>> Update and then upgrade.  If you still get nothing I think that you just
>> have to come to the conclusion that you are, by some strange magic, already
>> fully upgraded, as has been suggested by others as well as by me.
>>
>> But I would keep those two, or similar (i.e. different mirror, if
>> preferred), in your sources list.
>
> Sorry - obviously put Squeeze in place of Lenny.  Sorry - that is important,
> and just may be harmful (improbable).
>
>

Yes, yes, just actually had my first update which i saw come down, not
like the others which somehow downloaded in the background. The update
is "libtiff4" mysterious.


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