Hi, Help requested please; thankyou in advance. I'm reasonably experienced with Unix but not with Linux, so please treat me as a newbie:
I'm attempting to upgrade the kernel on my linkstation box and I'm getting a dreaded crash in apt-get. When I run the webinstaller shell script it bombs out as copied-and-pasted below: ---------------------------------------- 15:28:49 URL:http://downloads.buffalo.nas-central.org/Installers/Webinstaller/md5sums /latest-kernel.tar.gz.md5 [55/55] -> "latest-kernel.tar.gz.md5" [1] --> kernel retrieved. --> Getting modules... 15:32:36 URL:http://downloads.buffalo.nas-central.org/Installers/Webinstaller/latest- modules.tar.gz [9281802/9281802] -> "latest-modules.tar.gz" [1] 15:32:37 URL:http://downloads.buffalo.nas-central.org/Installers/Webinstaller/md5sums /latest-modules.tar.gz.md5 [56/56] -> "latest-modules.tar.gz.md5" [1] --> modules retrieved. /usr/local/sbin/webinstaller-kernelinst.sh: line 248: 21855 Segmentation fault apt-get -y install module-init-tools FATAL: Can't install Debian's module-init-tools, or lm-sensors (Tera only) --> You need to take care of that yourself: apt-get --reinstall install wget diff modutils module-init-tools # all systems apt-get --reinstall install lm-sensors # Tera only --> Then re-run the webinstaller. ---------------------------------------- So I then try and manually run the errant apt-get command and I get: --------------------------- Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# apt-get -y install module-init-tools Segmentation faultsts... 9% Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# ls -lt /var/cache/apt total 19800 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1000000001 Feb 22 15:41 pkgcache.bin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 14336 Feb 22 09:39 archives -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19169764 Aug 17 2007 available Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "stable"; APT::Cache-Limit "1000000000"; Buffalo400Gb:/tmp# --------------------------- It looks as if I'm in update-hell: the updater is crashing out even after pushing the cache limit up to something ridiculous such as 1000000000 (== 1,000,000,000 ). For the last two or three days I have revisited this problem sporadically. I usually end up with half a dozen firefox windows open on this laptop, each with a dozen tab pages following any threads relating to this problem. I've optimistically tried several variants in order to fix the problem, hence I could have taken the machine into a worse state. When all you have is a hammer, every problem seems like a nail. I'm even starting to doubt myself regarding the configuration: when I view the debian_version it shows "5.0" but I installed the box originally a couple of years ago and only recently attempted the update. So how do I extricate myself out of this mire: I'd love to obtain a working "apt-get" that doesn't hit a segmentation violation, but the only mechanism I know of to get a new version is to use the existing (broken) apt-get, hence I am in "catch 22" situation! Any replies to the effect of "just restore the previous version" might prove futile: some of the advice I read was to clear out the cache hence I'm guessing that the backups have gone. Pragmatically, I use this little linkstation box as a third-level backup disk: the main files are on my PCs, I have a terabyte external hard disk as my backup media and I backup the terabyte to the linkstation. So the files on it are not *absolutely* important but I'd want to preserve them if possible: no disk-formats entertained at the moment. Have got to the "totally p*ssed off" stage, I throw myself upon the mercy of the newsgroup and humbly request any help that is offered. If you need further data information then please let me know. Regards and thanks in advance Mungo Henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
