Perl CPAN Catch-22 + ADHD (was: How's ...)

2022-07-04 Thread Will Mengarini
0400]: > CPAN is a repository for Perl modules [...] but in general > using the Debian dh-make-perl package to pull a CPAN > module and convert it into a .deb will make you happiest. That fails because of the same Catch-22: dh-make-perl *depends* on CPAN, and CPAN *itself* is broken. All dh-make-perl do

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-22 Thread Kent West
.org > Cc: jasheb...@aol.com > Sent: Fri, Nov 19, 2021 11:10 am > Subject: Re: installation catch 22 > > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:36 AM wrote: > > > The installation runs through to completion but the system does not boot > up. > I have tried several times

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-19 Thread Dan Ritter
jasheb...@aol.com wrote: > I have been trying to install Debian on an older computer using the CD1 > install. > The installation runs through to completion but the system does not boot up.I > have tried several times with the same result. > I am able to log in and look at the log file where it

Re: installation catch 22

2021-11-19 Thread Kent West
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 9:36 AM wrote: > > The installation runs through to completion but the system does not boot > up. > I have tried several times with the same result. > > I am able to log in and look at the log file where it informs me that some > firmware > needs to be updated. (red

installation catch 22

2021-11-19 Thread jashebert
I have been trying to install Debian on an older computer using the CD1 install. The installation runs through to completion but the system does not boot up.I have tried several times with the same result. I am able to log in and look at the log file where it informs me that some firmwareneeds

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-03, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I was going to document here the work-a-round I successfully used > yesterday to install desired additional packages. There's a bug report concerning this from 2014. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745381 In that thread our very own

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > At this point, the same cognoscenti who bemoan Linux lacking market > penetration tell him to go read some techie manuals and perform arcane > incantations. As true ostriches they insist the problem is "operator > error". This is a good way to not get any help. -- John

Re: Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 8:26 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > At this point, the same cognoscenti who bemoan Linux lacking market > penetration tell him to go read some techie manuals and perform arcane > incantations. As true ostriches they insist the problem is "operator > error". > This is a

Systemic Debian bug -- was [Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22]

2019-04-03 Thread Richard Owlett
Rather than quote my original post, I'll restate the underlying problem. In the beginning, Joe Average would obtain Debian on a set of physical installation CDs. He boots from it. The installer does it's thing. Later, desiring additional software, he inserts the same CD and allows Synaptic to

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-02 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 05:33:05AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > I was wondering about that. I've never had a clear understanding of > when to use 1 slash and when to use 3. I assumed that in this case 1 > was acceptable because how Synaptic's error message was phrased when > attempting

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/01/2019 06:11 PM, Jason wrote: On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote: In-Reply-To: The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered no problems *HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk]

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread Jason
On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 07:23:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote: > >In-Reply-To: > > > > > >>The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered > >>no problems > >> > >> > >>*HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] which are in

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/01/2019 02:51 AM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] I added the line deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib main to the beginning of sources.list . [...] This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/31/2019 08:55 AM, bw wrote: In-Reply-To: The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered no problems *HOWEVER* I need several packages [gparted, tcl, tk] which are in the DVD image. Synaptic is unable to install them: 1. sources.list refers to a

Re: BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-04-01 Thread didier gaumet
Le 31/03/2019 à 15:28, Richard Owlett a écrit : [...] > I added the line >> deb "file:/media/richard/Debian testing amd64 1/debian" buster contrib >> main > > to the beginning of sources.list . [...] > This is unacceptable when installation via an iso image on a flash drive > is becoming more and

BUSTER install - CATCH-22

2019-03-31 Thread Richard Owlett
I wish to install Buster on a machine with essentially *NO* internet connectivity. I downloaded the DVD1 ISO on my primary machine [creates secondary problem of being up against data cap]. The installation, having put the DVD1 ISO on a flash drive, encountered no problems *HOWEVER* I need

Re: How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Good to know. I was going to suggest that maybe your Internet connection was failing, but I did not do so because you checked it with another machine. On 17/08/17 11:04, Kynn Jones wrote: > It appears that the problem was a network misconfiguration (outside of my > control), and it is now

Re: How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
hours before this sudden failure. The package is definitely > installed, and the error above persists even after I run `dpkg-reconfigure > -p low ntp` (which requires no input from me). > > The only fix I can think of at this point would be to reinstall ntp > altogether, but I ca

Re: How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
settings for this are in /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf. On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Kynn Jones wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:51:15 From: Kynn Jones <kyn...@gmail.com> To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: How to get around ntpd catch-22? Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2

Re: How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
n User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: How to get around ntpd catch-22? Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:51:44 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org I installed Debian on a (legacy) Optiplex 9010 desktop, using a minimal USB installation image, and netinst

Re: How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Kynn Jones
It appears that the problem was a network misconfiguration (outside of my control), and it is now resolved. Sorry for the confusing query.

Re: How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 10:00:48AM -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Dear sir, unfortunately I do not have a solution to your problem, but I > want to note that in “Failed to start ntpd.service: Unit nptd.service > not found.” the name of ntpd was spelled “nptd”; maybe that is the > source of

How to get around ntpd catch-22?

2017-08-17 Thread Kynn Jones
so I have a Catch-22 situation. How can I fix this problem without having an internet connection? --- Aug 17 10:00:42 myhost ntpd[757]: error resolving pool 3.debian.pool.ntp.org: Temporary failure in name resolution (-3) Aug 17 10:00:45 myhost systemd[1]: Stopping Raise network interfaces...

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. Just some info for those considering upgrading from Sarge to Etch (or Sid). I just upgraded my system from Debian Sarge, to Debian Sid. I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, but circumstances drove me to Sid. I changed the repositories in my sources.list

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-12 Thread Colin
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. Just some info for those considering upgrading from Sarge to Etch (or Sid). I just upgraded my system from Debian Sarge, to Debian Sid. I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, but circumstances drove me to Sid. I changed the repositories in my sources.list from

catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. Just some info for those considering upgrading from Sarge to Etch (or Sid). I just upgraded my system from Debian Sarge, to Debian Sid. I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, but circumstances drove me to Sid. I changed the repositories in my sources.list from sarge to etch, and

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mark Grieveson wrote: I'm hoping one day that I'll be samrt and actually make a back-up of my system before trying stuff like upgrading again. You should always have backups. If you are running unstable, you should make the backups NOW. You never know what is going to happen in the next

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread Mark Grieveson
was how irritating the udev/kernel image catch-22 was. I know others have dealt with this quandary too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)

2006-02-11 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Sunday, 12 February 2006 12:21, Mark Grieveson wrote: Thanks for the tips. I did install OpenOffice.org 2.0, and it works well. My main point was how irritating the udev/kernel image catch-22 was. I know others have dealt with this quandary too. In my experience, aptitude is quite, eh, apt

Re: Display Catch-22

2004-05-25 Thread CW Harris
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:09:51PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:57:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software

Display Catch-22

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
If this is a re-posting, my apologies. The original was reported Mail Delivery Failed and did not appear in the list I downloaded. In another case I re-posted a message after receiving the Mail Delivery Failed notice, the re-posting did appear when I downloaded the list and there was a

Re: Display Catch-22

2004-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas H. George wrote: My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software from the Linux tarball changing all the ownerships to root:tom and all the permissions to 770. Please be specific. What

Re: Display Catch-22

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:57:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software from the Linux tarball changing all the ownerships to root:tom and

Display Catch-22

2004-05-23 Thread Thomas H. George
My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software from the Linux tarball changing all the ownerships to root:tom and all the permissions to 770. This allows me to display the monitor but I cannot change

Catch 22 ~ base-config console-data

2001-12-04 Thread tabanna
Can someone please help me ~ I am getting error message that my base-config is not OK because console-data is not configured { which I have tried to do in KDE control center} 1) when I try dpkg --configure console-data I get error that base-config is not completed. 2) when I try dpkg

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Michael Wagner
On Tuesday, 04. Dec. 2001 at 20:49:11, tabanna wrote: Can someone please help me ~ I am getting error message that my base-config is not OK because console-data is not configured { which I have tried to do in KDE control center} 1) when I try dpkg --configure console-data I get error

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:49:11PM +, tabanna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Can someone please help me ~ I am getting error message that my base-config is not OK because console-data is not configured { which I have tried to do in KDE control center} 1) when I try dpkg --configure

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:49:11PM +, tabanna wrote: 1) when I try dpkg --configure console-data I get error that base-config is not completed. 2) when I try dpkg --configure base-config I get error that console-data is not completed So 'dpkg --configure base-config

Re: Catch 22 ~ base-config console-data

2001-12-04 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, tabanna wrote: How can I cut out from this circle, and Fix matters ? Try: dpkg -i console-data* base-config* Oki

Upgrade Catch-22

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Wiley
Argh. I have a Woody machine that attempted to go through an upgrade last night and is now in dpkg jail. ppp tries to upgrade but bails with: Unpacking replacement ppp ... depmod: Unexpected value (20) in '/lib/modules/2.4.9-686/kern el/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for

Re: Upgrade Catch-22

2001-10-16 Thread Timothy Webster
thing. Thanks again for your help. At least some learning will come of this. :) -=greg - Original Message - From: Timothy Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Wiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Upgrade Catch-22 This is an easy one to fix

Re: Upgrade Catch-22

2001-10-16 Thread Greg Wiley
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001 2:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like you are going to have to use method 2. edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to trick dpkg into thinking modutils are not installed. Get a hold of modutils 2.4.8.1 from somewhere. Install this manually with dpkg -i When you

removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
I have been plagued by this for a long time, decided to do something about it and messed up. Who has kind words of advice? I'm running Potato 2.2r1 on a P200 desktop. For some reason (honestly, I didn't do it consciously) irda-common-0.9.5-2 was installed, but never wanted to get configured (and

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:18:40PM +0200, Hans wrote: I'm running Potato 2.2r1 on a P200 desktop. For some reason (honestly, I didn't do it consciously) irda-common-0.9.5-2 was installed, but never wanted to get configured (and I don't even have ir hardware installed). It also wouldn't let

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this package, especially since you've never actually installed it properly. I think you meant dpkg

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Hans wrote: dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this package, especially since you've never actually installed it

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Hans wrote: dpkg --force-reinstreq --purge irda-common See dpkg(8) and dpkg --force-help for details. Be warned that this has the potentiol to break your system. Realistically, it's probably ok for this package, especially since you've never

Re: removal catch-22

2001-05-03 Thread Hans
When all else fails, do it manually. You can edit the entry for the package out of /var/lib/dpkg/status, then use the info in /var/lib/dpkg/info/package-name.list to rm the files in the package. You'll also want to check for anything done by the {pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts in the info dir. Best

?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread DTi4565459
At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now machine won't boot linux. Boot floppy won't work for linux either.

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now machine won't boot linux. Boot floppy

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Andy Bastien
Pending further investigation, we now allege that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At home I have a laptop where win98 and linux co-exist, with lilo offering to boot either one at startup. But at office, after linux installs lilo to MBR, NT won't boot. So, I went to boot floppy, ran fdisk /mbr; but now

Re: ?? Lilo, Win NT, MBR problems: a catch 22

2000-12-26 Thread Nate Amsden
i did this recently, and as a solution i just created a 15MB C: drive for the boot loader(primary partition) then Linux got a /boot partition and NT got it's own primary partition. then i load LILO to the MBR and tell it to boot to C: (which then loads NT's boot loader) to load NT or load linux

Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread JoshNarins
I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 installation, since I have no SCSI devices. I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. The CD-Rewritable howto says I need SCSI support. (whoops!) I am eager to try making a debian kernel, to make sure only the drivers I need

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Saturday, December 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did write: I am eager to try making a debian kernel, to make sure only the drivers I need are there, but first I need to make a backup !!! While backups never hurt, a kernel rebuild shouldn't require backups. If you leave out some necessary

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread mikpolniak
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:32:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 installation, since I have no SCSI devices. I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. The CD-Rewritable howto says I need SCSI support. (whoops!) I

Re: Catch-22 with modules/backups

2000-12-23 Thread mikpolniak
On 23 Dec 2000 16:27:02 EST, mikpolniak said: On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:32:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I did not install SCSI support during my debian-2.2.17pre6 installation, since I have no SCSI devices. I have one backup mechanism, a CD-Rewritable drive. The

Catch 22 dpkg mystery

2000-09-24 Thread Richard Jenniss
Can anyone explain to me how you can install g++ ? I checked debian.org to find that g++ depends on http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/g++.html thats great, so one of the dependencies is libstdc++2.10-dev But libstdc++2.10-dev depends on g++

Re: Catch 22 dpkg mystery

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Richard Jenniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone explain to me how you can install g++ ? I checked debian.org to find that g++ depends on http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/g++.html http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/g++.html thats great, so one of the

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-14 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 1 Jan 1996, Ted Llewellyn wrote: Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.8,

SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do that I have to upgrade libstdc++2.8, and apparently to do THAT, dpkg has to

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 20:12:48 +, Ted Llewellyn wrote: Well, this is very pretty.I'm running Debian 2.0 with the default SANE--the doc says v0.71 but I think it's v0.74. I was going to upgrade to version 1.0. To do that, I have to install the new libc6, and to do that I have to

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Alexander N. Benner
Hi Ship's Log, Lt. Ted Llewellyn, Stardate 010196.2012: Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:12:48 + WOW .. a 2 Year old Email ... :-) did this mail get lost or is your date set a bit wrong ? greetings -- Alexander N. Benner - The Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper: -7- A Promise Keeper is

Re: SANE install catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread wtopa
Is the list catching up on OLD mail or has someone forgotten to set their clock up? Subject: SANE install catch-22 Date: Mon, Jan 01, 1996 at 08:12:48PM + In reply to:Ted Llewellyn Quoting Ted Llewellyn([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well, this is very pretty.I'm running

Re: SANE install Catch-22

1998-12-11 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Well, everyone has picked up on the date. Can anyone answer the question? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Your clock has the wrong date (1.1.1996) Alex.

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-11-03 Thread Jiri Baum
Sergey wrote: The package route is still better, but you don't have to use dselect. There's no problem about using dselect. Tell it you don't have a Packages file, when it asks for the path to the main packages, give it the path you have and tell it to 'scan' for packages. Make all the other

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
First of all, thanks to everyone who responded. Using dpkg is just what I needed to do. However, I now have run into a new problem. I've installed the gcc, binutils, make and patch packages and their dependancies. I patched the 2.0.35 kernal. I followed the instructions at the kernal.org

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-31 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: Then I ran make zImage (takes awhile!) and it aborted with the following error: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found ***[bootsect.o] Error 127 ***[zImage] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED](pa):bhmit1$ dpkg -S as86

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Andy Kennedy
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. menu too fast to read anything. I finished

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/28/98 at 12:53 PM, Jerry E. McGoveran [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst.

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You can always (under win95) go to the debian ftp site and download any .deb package, then boot linux and mount the windows partition. Then cd to the directory with the .deb and do a dpkg -i filename.deb. My system has a windows partition, and I have that listed in my /etc/fstab so it is mounted

Re: Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : At 06:37 PM 10/28/98 -0600, Andy Kennedy wrote: : On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jerry E. McGoveran wrote: : : I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is : apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of :

Catch-22 - Help!

1998-10-28 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
I have a Debian installation in which the ethernet card driver is apparently not installed. There were some errors at this stage of the installation process, but the screen drew and reset to the inst. menu too fast to read anything. I finished the installation, and now I need to update the

catch 22

1997-12-04 Thread Boateng, Ofori \(INNOLOG\)
I hope you can help me find out the origin or how we got this catch 22 phrase? I would appreciate a respomse from you. I got to you page when I did a search on catch 22 Thank you in advance. Ofori Boateng -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: catch 22

1997-12-04 Thread Pete Harlan
I hope you can help me find out the origin or how we got this catch 22 phrase? I would appreciate a respomse from you. I got to you page when I did a search on catch 22 Thank you in advance. Ofori Boateng Searching for catch 22 brought you to the Debian pages because of this thread

Re: Apache - catch 22?

1996-08-23 Thread Fundamental
At 09:01 22/08/96 -0400, you wrote: Hi Fun -- hi Su:) dpkg --info libgdbm1_1.7.3-11.deb yields: ... Depends: libc5 (=5.2.16-1) ... You quite right, but i have libgdbm1_1.7.3.8 ... thats my other problem, i cant find lib3-11 ... I even had a look at ftp.debian.org, i can find this version ...

Apache - catch 22?

1996-08-22 Thread Fundamental
Hi i just grabbed the unstable apache package. I tried to install it and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what, libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16 while i have libc5-18.

Re: Apache - catch 22?

1996-08-22 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Fun -- You said: Hi i just grabbed the unstable apache package. I tried to install it and it wouldnt because it need libc5 and libdbgm1 (?). I grabbed these packages installed libc5 and then tried installing libdbgm1, guess what, libdbgm1 wont intsall because it wants version libc5-16

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-09 Thread wb2oyc
Thanks to all the Debian L'ers for the suggestions on how to deal with this problem, especially Dwarf, Guy, Jim and Heiko. I did manage to correctly get a fresh source and image installed by using Heiko's suggestion (or a very close version of it)! I changed the status file to read purge ok

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-09 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Paul -- You said: My CD is on a SB16 card. I've told the new kernel NOT to load modules (N to kerneld) and somehow, what is now happening is SB driver loads during boot, and then later in the boot process I see loading modules, and you guessed it, it loads sbpcd as a module also! The

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread wb2oyc
manually created the symlink Jim, THANKS! I'll give that a try.best suggestion I've heard today :-) Paul - Jim

RE: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread Crow, Owen
I've managed to get myself in a catch-22 kind of dilemma. In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the proper options to support IP masquerading, somehow or other both my kernel-image and kernel-source packages have gotten to a state where I'm stuck fast! Before you try anything

RE: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread wb2oyc
On 23:36:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: masquerading, somehow or other both my kernel-image and kernel-source packages have gotten to a state where I'm stuck fast! Before you try anything drastic, check the #!/... line of the post-install scripts for the kernel. Mine pointed to a non- existent

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread Christian Hudon
On 7 Aug 1996, Jim Pick wrote: I had the same problem with a virgin Debian 1.1 installation. I investigated and found that the kernel-image/kernel-source postinst and prerm scripts reference #! /bin/perl. However, on my virgin Debian 1.1 installation, there was no symlink from /bin/perl

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread Graham Williams
Jim Pick wrote on 08 Aug 1996 04:44:21 +1000: wb2oyc ... In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the wb2oyc proper options ... results in errors during the prerem wb2oyc or postrem scripts for both the source and image package. Jim I had the same problem with a virgin

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread wb2oyc
On 14:19:59 Guy Maor wrote: On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way to force dpkg to reinstall (or remove) in spite of the error it encounters attempting to remove the older package first? Type `dpkg --force-help' for instructions on forcing options. I think you want

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread Guy Maor
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way to force dpkg to reinstall (or remove) in spite of the error it encounters attempting to remove the older package first? Type `dpkg --force-help' for instructions on forcing options. I think you want --force-remove-reinstreq. Be

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the try Guy, but no help there. Been there, done that. The remove (or forced install) doesn't work either, for the same reason. The prerem and/or the postrem script fails. Actually, I thought the force option would be the answer, but I

Re: catch 22?

1996-08-08 Thread Jim Pick
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to get myself in a catch-22 kind of dilemma. In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the proper options to support IP masquerading, somehow or other both my kernel-image and kernel-source packages have gotten

catch 22?

1996-08-07 Thread wb2oyc
Oh Debian L'ers, I've managed to get myself in a catch-22 kind of dilemma. In an effort to get a working 2.0.0 kernel with the proper options to support IP masquerading, somehow or other both my kernel-image and kernel-source packages have gotten to a state where I'm stuck fast! I cannot