Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it is the same problem as before, and it looks as though it could be, > > the work round is:- > > > > rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin > > apt-get update > > apt-get install foo bar ... > > > > The needs to

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Wolfgang Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems it isn't the same problem, as this did not fix it. But it seems something is broken here anyway: hurd:/cdrom/pool/main/s/screen# dpkg -i screen_3.9.11-5_hurd-i386.deb dpkg-split: error reading screen_3.9.11-5_hurd-i386.deb: Input/output erro

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-18 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If it is the same problem as before, and it looks as though it could be, > the work round is:- > > rm -f /var/cache/apt/*.bin > apt-get update > apt-get install foo bar ... > > The needs to be used to install any set of packages. It seems it isn't the

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Wolfgang Jährling wrote: > Hi! > > I thought the following is a problem which several people encountered > before, and that there was a workaround for it, but I could not find > anything about it with Google or in my local archive of the mailing > lists. > If it is the same pr

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it seems the /var is not writable. So you probably show us what > fsysopts /var/cache/apt shows. If /var would just be non-writable, it would fail also without using rpctrace. And actually, it is on the root file system, which is writable; the err

Re: Installing packages hangs

2002-08-16 Thread James Morrison
--- Wolfgang_Jährling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I thought the following is a problem which several people encountered > before, and that there was a workaround for it, but I could not find > anything about it with Google or in my local archive of the mailing > lists. > > In a fresh J1

Installing packages hangs

2002-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Hi! I thought the following is a problem which several people encountered before, and that there was a workaround for it, but I could not find anything about it with Google or in my local archive of the mailing lists. In a fresh J1 installation, doing "apt-get install screen" (or the same with an