Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Niels Möller
Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyway, is md5 passwords supported? md5 passwords are a nice idea, but IMO the current implementation of it (and I'm thinking primarily of the design of it, not the actual code) is a really awful hack. It would be better to use pkcs#5 (and allocate a

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Roland McGrath
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:01:23PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote: > > On the Hurd, buying the farm means that some essential server, like > > exec or proc, have died and that there's basically no hope to recover > > except by rebooting the machine. > > Actually, no. It means that a protocol violati

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:01:23PM +0200, Niels Möller wrote: > On the Hurd, buying the farm means that some essential server, like > exec or proc, have died and that there's basically no hope to recover > except by rebooting the machine. Actually, no. It means that a protocol violation happened.

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Söderlund
> Ok, thanks. > btw, do you know if the maximum password lenght is 7? > I noticed that I got logged in after typing only half my password :) > Seems like this limit should be higher, I might have some stange configs > that causes the problem. Nevermind, I found it in /etc/login.defs. Anyway, is md5

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Söderlund
> > I don't understand much of this but "Computer bought the farm"?! > > wtf? :) > > That's the error message for the errno value EIEIO (try spelling that > out loud...). "To buy the farm" is US military slang for dying, or > somthing like that. > > On the Hurd, buying the farm means that some es

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Wolfgang Jährling
Niels Möller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the Hurd, buying the farm means that some essential server, like > exec or proc, have died and that there's basically no hope to recover > except by rebooting the machine. No, you can get this error message also when something harmless happens (at CCCon

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-16 Thread Niels Möller
Niklas Söderlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand much of this but "Computer bought the farm"?! wtf? :) That's the error message for the errno value EIEIO (try spelling that out loud...). "To buy the farm" is US military slang for dying, or somthing like that. On the Hurd, buying

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-10 Thread Söderlund
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:27:48 +0200 Manuel Menal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Niklas wrote : > > > And everything hung. I was accessing the hurd-computer through telnet > > and when I turned on the screen the whole screen was filled with > > "(default pager): dropping data_request because o

Re: apt-get error

2002-07-10 Thread Manuel Menal
Niklas wrote : > And everything hung. I was accessing the hurd-computer through telnet > and when I turned on the screen the whole screen was filled with > "(default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging > errors". This usually means that you have been running out of memo

apt-get error

2002-07-10 Thread Söderlund
Hi, I got a strange error when I was trying to do apt-get install xfree86-common: Unpacking xfree86-common (from .../xfree86-common_4.1.0-17_all.deb) ... E: Couldn't wait for subprocess - waitpid (1073741928 Computer bought the farm) And everything hung. I was accessing the hurd-computer through