Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:21:14AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >Nope. Haven't even done the "configure/make/make install" dance on > this partition. BTW, what is the exact purpose of avahi-daemon? I took > a look at its description, but still don't understand. Sorry, haven't looked into mul

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-26 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:33:32 +1200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:43:49AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >Aptitude was the only package manager used on this machine > > following the advice of several user

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:43:49AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >Aptitude was the only package manager used on this machine following > the advice of several users. Easily? Well I was lucky to have a > Ubuntu Dapper installation on another partition so I could retrieve the > needed packages an

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:31:39 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: [...] >The strange thing is I **think** avahi-daemon was installed > **before** KDE desktop was put on the machine. What I find strange is > that Aptitude removed it when it wasn't installed as part of KDE. That part is easy: Apt

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:05:48 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:17:14 +0100 > > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Looks like > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:07:06 + Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:29 +0100 > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > The fact that your working network connection was broken by > > installing a

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank McCormick wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:17:14 +0100 > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Looks like >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123 > > > > Well, maybe, but KDE was installed using Aptitude, removed with > Aptitude and Aptitude was used to re

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:07:06 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:29 +0100 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > The fact that your working network connection was broken by installing > > and then removing avahi-daemon, on the other hand, sounds like a real > > bug. (But it

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:17:14 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 > > Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to the > > fact kde-desktop is no longe

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:32:29 +0100 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > The fact that your working network connection was broken by installing > and then removing avahi-daemon, on the other hand, sounds like a real > bug. (But it is probably not a bug of aptitude.) If aptitude remo

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 22:03:38 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: [...] > Bottom line, keep KDE off your machine :). I like the smiley there... >Seriously, I still don't > understand why removing kde-desktop pulled off avahi-daemon. I went > back into th

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Frank McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 > Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to the > fact kde-desktop is no longer on my machine. Now Aptitude wants to > remove all the files I just installed avahi-daemon and its dependecies, > plus dhcp3-client

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:54:30 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to the > > fact kde-desktop is no longer on my machine. No

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >Michael, see my reply to Andrei. DHCP started running by itself > > > just before I was about to re-in

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Michael, see my reply to Andrei. DHCP started running by itself > > just before I was about to re-install it. Alls well that ends well. > > Thanks for the replies

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:06:03PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:59:04 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the > > > error messages are

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:59:04 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the > > error messages are gone---and I can bring up eth0 with "ifconfig > > eth0 up" but dchp is not runni

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:55:24 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the > > error messages are gone---and I can bring up eth0 w

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:33:05PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:37:54 -0400 > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Have you tried reinstalling avahi-daemon? And what kind of errors are > > > you get

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK I re-installed avahi-daemon ( and related dependecies) - the > error messages are gone---and I can bring up eth0 with "ifconfig eth0 > up" but dchp is not running so no network. How do I get it running ?? Do you have dhcp3-client installed? Try r

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:37:54 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you tried reinstalling avahi-daemon? And what kind of errors are > > you getting exactly? > > > I am about to try that - I dl'ed that and a few related pac

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:33:54 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Have you tried reinstalling avahi-daemon? And what kind of errors are > > you getting exactly? > > > > I've had trouble with gnome and avahi-daemon a

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:23:34 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Results: Network is screwed as that process also removed > > avahi-daemon. Now booting up Etch results in a bunch of error > > messages, and no network. Unless I can figu

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:23:34PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:17:05PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > After trying KDE for a couple of days...I decided it wasn't for me. > > > > Sudo aptitude purge kde-desktop. > > > > Results: Network is screwed as that pro

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 08:17:05PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > After trying KDE for a couple of days...I decided it wasn't for me. > > Sudo aptitude purge kde-desktop. > > Results: Network is screwed as that process also removed > avahi-daemon. Now booting up Etch results in a bunch of er

Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-22 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After trying KDE for a couple of days...I decided it wasn't for me. Sudo aptitude purge kde-desktop. Results: Network is screwed as that process also removed avahi-daemon. Now booting up Etch results in a bunch of error messages, and no net