Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-06-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all hard drives on a machine to the condition they were in before anyone had

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-06-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 01:57:53PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: It's possible malware has corrupted that system too. In that event, on another computer that can burn CD;'s download dban from freshmeat.net and burn the iso onto a cdr cd not a cdrw. What dban does is to return all hard

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove 150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right to me so I don't use it. If `apt-get upgrade' suggested to remove `gnome'. I'd do the following: apt-get install gnome If that doesn't do anything, then I'd write down

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-10 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Problem Update: Thanks to every one! I created a new user and the programs that were getting floating point exceptions ran! I went back to my normal id and deleted a lot of .x files and directories. Now all those programs work there too. The only bad thing is that I got too enthusiastic and

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove 150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right to me so I don't use it. aptitude keep all ; aptitude install -sf for a start. Then use

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:50:37AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove 150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-09 Thread David Dawson
Mark Grieveson wrote: Greetings; I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have had all sorts of problems with it. It seems to me that either something got corrupted during the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that shouldn't be, or there is the wrong

How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. Web pages that work fine for everybody else don't work on my system and throw a bunch of javascript and java errors. I upgraded from Sarge

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 18:54, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. Web pages that work fine for everybody else

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I think I have something basically wrong with my system. I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have had all sorts of problems with it. It seems to me that either something got corrupted during the

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:26:18PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I think I have something basically wrong with my system. I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have had all sorts of problems with

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:23:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 18:54, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. [...] Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:54:36PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. could you have an old version of libc? [...] It seems to me that

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:54 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. [snip] Any way, any ideas short of the old Windows stand by, Format the hard

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 21:26, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] Don't have mc? Pitty. Debs are sort of a special-format tarball and there is some way to untar them but I forget how. They are ar files. To extract files from a deb: $ ar xv foo.deb -

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Mark Grieveson
Greetings; I upgraded from Sarge according to the instructions but I have had all sorts of problems with it. It seems to me that either something got corrupted during the upgrade, there is something left over from Sarge that shouldn't be, or there is the wrong version of a library