Trouble with dselect.
My aim was to build a custom kernel, so I installed the kernel-source package for 2.0.38 kernel version. I propably should have also installed the headers package as well, but I did not notice it since it is located in the base section, not the development. It was after this that the problems occured: dselect refuses to install or remove the kernel source packages. Here are the error messages that I got last time: installation script returned error exit status 139 unpacking kernel-source... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-source-2.0.38_2.0.38-0_all.deb (--unpack) subprocess dpkg-dep --fsys -tarfile killed by signa (Segmentation fault) Errors where encountered while processing: /var/... (the same file as above) ... _all.deb E:Subprocess returned an error code (1) ( some text like: fix the errors and install later) Press enter to continue inst script returned error exit status 100 The system seems to be just okay otherwise. dselect even installs other packages than the source or the header packages. Please, help me. I am xtremely grateful for all the assistance I can get for fixing this thing (=getting the package installation going again.) Jussi Mattila
Trouble with dselect: Hangs
Hi, I am running potato and have upgraded my system using dselect/apt without problems for a long time. Now I have problems though: dselect downloads the selected packages, the message Fetched kB in XXmXXs (B/s) shows up and then it hangs. Nothing happens, no error message even. It seems like the command to start the unpacking and installing aren't given or something. I then have to terminate dselect and manually install the packages using: dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb This is the ONLY way I am able to upgrade now. What might be wrong, and how can get dselect to function normally again? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Trouble with dselect
The dselect program is having trouble seeing the packages for installation; I put them in a directory named install on the c drive, and also copied the packages file into the same directory. Only 20 or so packages come up in the screen for selection. How can i get dselect to see all the packages that are there? -- Jim Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bytemaster.com 617.491.5530 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Trouble with dselect
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jim Kennedy wrote: The dselect program is having trouble seeing the packages for installation; I put them in a directory named install on the c drive, and also copied the packages file into the same directory. Only 20 or so packages come up in the screen for selection. How can i get dselect to see all the packages that are there? Well, the packages file is constructed for an archive directory structure that you have not duplicated. If you have all of the .deb files in one directory, and you wish to install them all, you can do this with something like: dpkg -iR /pathtopackages/*.deb (It may work without the *.deb, but I have never actually tried it this way, so you may need to experiment with the proper command line.) Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble with dselect (packages ignored)
Howdy, I have had two problems with dselect v.1.4.8 for a couple of months now and I am at my wits end. 1) After I upgraded to 1.2, I have had a problem with packages that I select and dselect silently ignores them. The three files that I have found are 'menu', 'macutils', 'gv-3d'. The last one, gv-3d, didn't work but gv did. Is this a problem with my database or is this a problem with the server (ftp.debian.org)? 2) After I have selected the packages that I want and I have downloaded them, dselect looks for old/corrupt files. In that list, I find two packages (actually, one package from different releases) that I had tried to install but later purged them. Later, when the packages are actually being installed, I see them again with the message Skipping previously deselected package: gnuchess-book. After the installation, it deletes installed package files, but it skips the two gnuchess-book packages. The two files are in /frozen/stuff I don't remember and /Debian-1.2-fixed/stuff I don't remember. Can I just delete them manually without running either dselect or dpkg, or do I have to figure out how to get rid of them with either program? Thanks for listening. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
