Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Mark Allums
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 14 November 2008, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Friday 14 November 2008, Jeff Soules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Mark Allums wrote: Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with anything in the i386-amd64 family. Yeah, but it's not actually that good at testing memory. Do you have a reference for that? I do. We never trust memtest negatives unless it has been

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Nick Syrotiuk wrote: Well, it looks like I may have an intermittent problem. Yesterday I removed 2 Gb of memory (2 sticks, 1 Gb each) leaving 2 Gb in the box but I still had problems. It might be your PSU. Today, I booted the machine and I no longer had APT

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Mark Allums
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Mark Allums wrote: MS's memory tester is pretty terrible IMO, but the memtests are a little It flags errors faster than memtest in the opinion of some of our lab techs. Probably memtest is too conservative in what it does to the

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-15 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Mark Allums wrote: MS's memory tester is pretty terrible IMO, but the memtests are a little It flags errors faster than memtest in the opinion of some of our lab techs. Probably memtest is too conservative in what

Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Hi everyone, I'm having some major problems with Lenny on a new Dell PC (only 2 months old). The problems only started this week after I upgraded my system. I wrote to this list earlier in the week about GCONF-CRITICAL and other issues. And I followed Lee's and Sven's advice-- thanks!

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Nick Syrotiuk wrote: Unfortunately, I'm still having major problems: 1. apt-check takes 100% control of 1 of 4 cpus 2. iceweasel will not start (from the command line) due to a segmentation fault 3. I tried to install icedove but the .DEB package downloaded by aptitude was initially

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Yes, it could be that. I'm a software guy not a hardware guy. How do you suggest I diagnose a hardware problem? Keep in mind I cannot install/remove any packages at the moment. Apt cannot build the dependency tree. It just hangs. Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Nick Syrotiuk wrote:

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Nick Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Yes, it could be that. I'm a software guy not a hardware guy. How do you suggest I diagnose a hardware problem? Keep in mind I cannot install/remove any packages at the moment. Apt cannot build the dependency tree. It

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Nick Syrotiuk wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Nick Syrotiuk wrote: Unfortunately, I'm still having major problems: [snip] bzip2: data integrity error when decompressing ... E: Some index files failed to download... Several strange issues... have you checked your hardware (memory, disk,

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread lee
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:03:16 + Nick Syrotiuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, it could be that. I'm a software guy not a hardware guy. How do you suggest I diagnose a hardware problem? Try shutdown -rF now and watch when the file systems are checked on reboot. Try to remove as many memory

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Jeff Soules
Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with anything in the i386-amd64 family. If you can burn the CD, it will do its own thing so long as you boot from the CD drive. See: http://www.memtest.org/ (Don't know if your system is functional enough to download and burn a cd, but

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Jeff Soules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with anything in the i386-amd64 family. Yeah, but it's not actually that good

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Friday 14 November 2008, Jeff Soules [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Friday 14 November 2008, Jeff