Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-28 Thread T
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:23:31 +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: >> > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the >> > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. >> > >> > After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, >> > nor unins

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-25 Thread Philippe Grenard
- How to make the system believe that the package isn't (or is) install, > > in order to remove and reinstall it properly > > - Is there a way to "run the dpkg process" step by step by hand with only > > some basic commands as cp, rm, mv, mkdir, to see whe

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-25 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mardi 25 Octobre 2005 02:43, Bill Marcum a écrit : > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the > > "magic keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > > > After that, t

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:28:12PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > Hi all! > > well, last time I did a dist-upgrade , the system hanged, and even the "magic > keys" didn't answered, so I had to reboot the system. > > After that, there was one package that i couldn't upgrade, nor install, nor >

Re: Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread anoop aryal
ith an error or exit code 1) > > Well, the questions are : > - How to make the system believe that the package isn't (or is) install, in > order to remove and reinstall it properly > - Is there a way to "run the dpkg process" step by step by hand with only > some bas

Do I need to reinstall the whole system?

2005-10-24 Thread Philippe Grenard
ot;run the dpkg process" step by step by hand with only some basic commands as cp, rm, mv, mkdir, .... to see where there is a problem - any other idea? - Do I need to reinstall the whole system? I thank you all for any help! I already tried a lot of google but i couldn't find a solution