On 04/20/2009 10:04 PM, Derek Broughton wrote: > richard wrote: > >> >> In order to try and get Virtualbox up I reloaded 2.6.28-11 server, >> reloaded virtualbox, it starts but borks staring the VM >> >> I ran apt-get update, in case I had only had a part update. >> >> and got this:- >> >> apt-get: update >> Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Sources >> Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/contrib Sources >> Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/non-free Sources > > Why do you think that it's OK to use Debian (sid, no less) sources with > Ubuntu? And then, why would you think we could fix it. Debian & Ubuntu > are _largely_ compatible, but if mixing them breaks things, I'm afraid > you're on your own.
Some of Debian and Ubuntu binaries can be incompatible with each other,
mainly do to depends and such. Mixing the 2 repos can cause problems.
As i recall we do not have support for Debian repos in Ubuntu, however
this might have changed but i have yet heard if it is supported or not.
>
>>
>> so I checked the software sources
>>
>> ALL the sources are now jaunty i386
>
> Except the ones that are Debian... My bet is that you've checked
> the /etc/apt/sources.list, but not /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
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