>>>>> "john" == John Houwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I seem to have a similar problem with dselect/dpkg, but not
> with the dpkg-ftp option (haven't gotten that far yet)
> The dselect package has given me problems from the first. I
> made a few errors in my 1st attempt at the CDRom install,
> but managed to get most of the selected packages unpacked &
> installed. Where dselect hung was on the
> kernel-source/kernel-headers packages. (where is
> local/binary ??)
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This sounds like the problem that I'm having. I installed debian
on a new system and all went well until I tried to use dselect to
install the kernel-source package. While doing that, dpkg
crashed with a segmentation fault. So I tried to use dselect to
purge the kernel-source package and again dpkg crashed, this time
leaving me with a hung system. All I could do was power cycle my
machine since the keyboard was apparently frozen and I could not
log in on any other consoles. This left me with a bad disk which
I cannot fix because now e2fsck crashes with a segmentation
fault. It looks like I'm going to have to reformat my hard disk
and reinstall from scratch. :(
I don't have any answers for you, but you are not alone. I'm
tempted to try a different distribution in hopes of getting a
stable system.
I'll let you know if I come up with any solutions.
Mike
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Nuclear Physics Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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