Re: hamm upgrade
Mark Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MT> I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink). MT> I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on MT> the system. The problem I am having is getting "apt-get MT> dist-upgrade" to work. When I run the command (as root) I get the MT> following error message: MT> MT> Updating package status cache...E: Can't open /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - open (2 No such file or directory) MT> E: The previous errors apply to a Package Cache File /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin MT> E: You should probably re-run apt-get update Have you run 'apt-get update', as APT suggests? That, or running 'Update' under dselect using the APT method, will build the named file from information available through dpkg's database. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ "Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?" "Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
RE: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries
Hi Phil: Someone correct me if I'w wrong. I believe you have to run dselect to install the rest of the packages that autoup.sh removed Peter -Original Message- From: Phil Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June 29, 1998 7:48 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, fstream.h, string, list, etc). Doing a locate says they are nowhere on the system. Is there a package that I missed? I'm using kernel 2.0.33. Thanks, -- Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-- and stay there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." Mark Twain, "Following the Equator" __ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries
Phil Dyer wrote: > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > fstream.h, string, list, etc). > > Doing a locate says they are nowhere on the system. Is there a package > that I missed? > I'm using kernel 2.0.33. > > Thanks, > -- > Phil Dyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] One of the things that the Autoup scripts does is remove all xxx-dev packages before continuing. It should have left a text file log telling you what it deleted. These dev packages have to be reinstalled explicitly (by you), because as far as dselect is concerned they were never on your system. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries
Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > > > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > > fstream.h, string, list, etc). > > Have you run the rest of the upgrade on your system (i.e. give dselect a > run) and have you installed g++ (it split from gcc)? I have installed g++2.90.29, but have not run dselect for the rest of the packages yet. Just seems strange that the gcc and g++ are the only things complete, and the only things (I think) that are broken. I'll try dselct and complete before I whine any more... Phil Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > HTH, > Brandon > > --+-- > Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status > PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ > Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm upgrade/c++ libraries
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote: > I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem. > I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages. > Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h, > fstream.h, string, list, etc). Have you run the rest of the upgrade on your system (i.e. give dselect a run) and have you installed g++ (it split from gcc)? HTH, Brandon --+-- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Debian Testing Group Status PGP Key: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/deb/ Dijkstra probably hates me (Linus Torvalds, in kernel/sched.c) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Hamm upgrade to Slink
Thus far I have simply installed any slink packages that were not available for my hamm system (tya, karpski, xteddy, libc6-dev etc), and everything has worked fine. Does anyone know otherwise? Timothy On 10-Jun-98 Randy Edwards wrote: > Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the routine of > playing with new packages on my home system. :-) So I was playing > with the idea of upgrading to slink and running that. > > Unlike the upgrade from bo to hamm, I can find no docs/readme's on a > hamm to slink upgrade. Can someone who is running slink fill me in on > a couple of things? > > First, how buggy is slink? I'll be upgrading a home system so it's > not like it's a critical box, but I'm not the most experienced Linuxer > and was curious about this. Secondly, what's involved with the exact > hamm to slink upgrade? Is there any dramatic library upgrades? Is it > just a matter of dpkg'ing the new slink packages? > > Any and all info/advice would be greatly appreciated; thanks in > advance. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10-Jun-98 Time: 11:45:06 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hamm upgrade to Slink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Both hamm and slink are libc6-based so the upgrade should be quite painless. If a package does not work for you, you always can revert to the version in hamm easily. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNX55WSqK7IlOjMLFAQFXQAP/domikDJ3TJm+T4GuQUU9TwkUpIO4Rjdb JFR2+12gKNM14LNqZsSp62iS4KJ4Yw4i7cyKj61Un+/UMHmMPa8Y1N+t72OMkGsw 9gsV2wIjMAFgYKCghJh5psWVhCVBAkVVsSi/UeH0/LSv7LJ/AgwQdZ2dfj/5wgpn Um7+QZ1WRlg= =iAzW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm upgrade
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > When Bob Nielsen wrote, I replied: > > Thanks for the reply. There were myriad things (fvwm* among them) that > wouldn't load as they depended on xlib6g which wasn't available. > > I ran and re-ran install and config and remove phases until my remaining > errors were minimized. I've since added a few more packages, but there > remain a large group of things which depend on xlib6g which isn't > available. I remain very loathe to re-boot until I can get xlib6g. I can understand that. Try /pub/debian/dists/frozen/main/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.1-1.deb I just checked and it is there (ftp.debian.org, at least). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm upgrade
When Bob Nielsen wrote, I replied: Thanks for the reply. There were myriad things (fvwm* among them) that wouldn't load as they depended on xlib6g which wasn't available. I ran and re-ran install and config and remove phases until my remaining errors were minimized. I've since added a few more packages, but there remain a large group of things which depend on xlib6g which isn't available. I remain very loathe to re-boot until I can get xlib6g. > > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > I just finished my bo -> hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet > > because > > during the upgrade, I couldn't install fvwm2 or fvwm95 and I'm afraid > > that if I > > re-boot, I may loose my X environment. Any advice?? > > What errors did you get when trying to install fvwm2 and fvwm95? > Sometimes it is necessary to rerun Install with dselect a few times to > pick everything up. Try this at least. > > You should reboot, as that may clean some things up. If X won't run > yet and you have to reinstall anything, there's always the venerable > virtual console. > > > > Auch, I see that my display mumble.jpg and xlock commands are no longer > > working. > > I've forgotten the package which supplies the display command. The > > xlock > > problem is minor in my environment. TIA for any help forthcoming. > > display is contained in the Imagemagick package. > > Bob > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm upgrade
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: > I just finished my bo -> hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet > because > during the upgrade, I couldn't install fvwm2 or fvwm95 and I'm afraid > that if I > re-boot, I may loose my X environment. Any advice?? What errors did you get when trying to install fvwm2 and fvwm95? Sometimes it is necessary to rerun Install with dselect a few times to pick everything up. Try this at least. You should reboot, as that may clean some things up. If X won't run yet and you have to reinstall anything, there's always the venerable virtual console. > > Auch, I see that my display mumble.jpg and xlock commands are no longer > working. > I've forgotten the package which supplies the display command. The > xlock > problem is minor in my environment. TIA for any help forthcoming. display is contained in the Imagemagick package. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hamm Upgrade Failure - problem with dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb
Mark Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # dpkg --info ../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb > dpkg-deb: `../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb' is not a debian > format archive > > What's wrong? I can't upgrade anything using dselect as a result of this > bug. Try getting dpkg-perl from a different mirror. dpkg --info can read dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb from ftp.debian.org, and it installs cleanly on my machine. You must have a corrupted file. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hamm upgrade woes
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, you wrote: > Many packages didn't install, and some could not be removed > (timezone, wg15-locale, etc). I manually > removed the packages the script didn't, then ran autoup.sh again, What version of autoup.sh did you use? The most recent is v0.19. The problems you describe are similar to ones that we encountered prior to about v0.14. Did you run script to record the session, or did you note the exact error messages? It would be helpful to have this information. By manually removing the files that it failed to remove, and rerunning the script, you appear to have completed the script successfully. If all the packages that the script lists for removal have been removed, and all the package that the script lists for installation have been installed, your system should be stable, and the balance of the upgrade can be handled by dselect. >Eventually, the script completed, and I was ready to upgrade > via dselect using ftp. More problems ensued. I'm being told that > packages I want are not found, even though the option to update > available packages worked. Can someone give me specific paths to > specify in dselect for ftp upgrade? The directory structure for hamm is different from that used earlier. The paths for dselect are dists/unstable/main/binary-i386, dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386, and dists/unstable/contrib/binary-i386. >I want to convert my system to Hamm, but I can't complete, and > I'm afraid to shutdown or reboot for fear it may not come back up. > Are there packages that run under Bo that won't under Hamm? > (xloadimage, etc?). Which libraries must I have to run X-windows, > gimp, etc, and which libraries must NOT be loaded to avoid > conflicts? I suggest you let dselect update its package list using the paths mentioned above, enter the select phase and resolve any conflicts it shows, then let it install everything it has marked for installation. I recommend that you wait until after this step to select any more packages. It will probably be necessary to make several passes (usually 2 or 3, but sometimes half a dozen) through the install - configure cycle to satisfy dependencies. If you use the dpkg-mountable option (highly recommended if you have a local mirror), it will probably show some predepends that must be resolved manually before it starts the actual installation. With the dpkg-mountable option, it is necessary to run the update phase after each install phase. After this, you should have the necessary run time libraries installed. The descriptions in dselect or in /var/lib/dpkg/available list the libraries that are required for the various packages. In general, dselect will take care of those for you. I see that several people have told you about dpkg -l to get a list of packages installed on your system. Have fun, Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!
>> >> My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the >> steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I >> decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded >> 60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through >> a couple of passes of "Install" and then tried "Config" once. >> This went through and eventually config'ed xbase. This restarted >> my xdm server. The problem is that my video card (at times) can >> only start X once. Further attempts to start X lock the machine up >> tight (which is why I moved to xdm in the first place). This was one >> of those times, and the machine locked up (that is not the problem). The >> only solution that I have found to this is to press "reset". I did >> this and then the real probelms started... >> >> The boot started correctly, but then got to this point: >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly >> INIT: version 2.73 booting >> INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" >> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 >> Starting system log daemon: syslogdstart-stop-daemon: nothing in /proc - >> not mounted? >> >> I get many of the "start-stop-daemon" errors. >> >> Later it says: >> while opening UTMP file: No such file or directory. >> >> I also get many of these errors. >> >> If I try to log in as root, I get (using the correct password): >> Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Bad file descriptor >> >> I have no idea how to correct these problems. I have had this system >> going since early Debian 1.1 days and I am stumped. What do I need to do? Hi! I had a strange problem couple a weeks a go, that looked similar: /proc or swap partitions would not get mounted, if they were last lines in fstab ... same with .fechmailrc and procmail. I simply moved the lines on top of the list and everything worked. Really strange! This was straight after an upgrade. --j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maria Lynn Jason Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly >INIT: version 2.73 booting >INIT: Cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot" >INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Do the following: - boot the system with -b added on the LILO command line (for example, boot: linux -b) - Now in maintenance mode, mount the root file system r/w: # mount -n -o remount,rw / - Edit /etc/inittab - look for the line with /etc/init.d/boot in it - Replace that with: # Boot-time system configuration/initialization script. si::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS - save the file - umount and reboot: # mount -n -oremount,ro / # reboot -f Something hosed your /etc/inittab during the upgrade, but I have no idea why. I think you had a buggy version of sysvinit installed by accident before.. (there have been some troubles in the 2.72 series) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | The dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac lay in his bed [EMAIL PROTECTED] | awake all night wondering if there is a doG -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Hamm upgrade troubles. Help!
Can you say boot disk? For a boot disk I use the Debian install boot disk. From dos you can edit the syslinux.cfg file to mount the correct disk as root. (and you can disable the ramdisk if you need to.) Useing the boot disk will not fix things but you should be able to log on and get a look things. You might even be able to run the filesystem check program (can't remember the name off hand). I have done lots of gnasty things includeing pressing reset mutiple times but I have never had a crash that I could not recover from. (well actually I did delete everything once. I was going to repartition two of my drives to give linux a large disk to work with. I backed up Linux using tar and placed the tar file on an empty dos partition. I then typed something along the lines of: cd /;rm -Rf *. Note how I forgot to unmount the dos drive. ) -- Stephen Gregory > of those times, and the machine locked up (that is not the problem). The > only solution that I have found to this is to press "reset". I did > this and then the real probelms started... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
