Thanks for your help. ---- Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 1.You run Debian. You need a mail transport agent. Many > scripts are set up to mail information to root. Without a MTA, > this doesn't happen. Out-of-the-box exim4 on Etch will deliver > local mail only.
Ahhh, that explains why my other machine had exim installed by default too. Thanks. > Since networking is notworking, and so many things in *NIX > rely on networking even without being connected to a network, > you want the minimum trying to run. Run in single mode > (either reboot single or do a shutdown (no -r or -h) to > single-user. When done do a full shutdown -r rather than > change back to RL 2. Networking is definitely working as I can access the web. "aptitude show openbsd-inetd" showed the status as "partially configured". > Its openbsd-inetd that's messing up the works. Try > reinstall: # apt-get install --reinstall openbsd-inetd I tried with both apt-get and aptitude and here is the output (it's long): # aptitude reinstall openbsd-inetd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages will be REINSTALLED: openbsd-inetd 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Setting up openbsd-inetd (0.20050402-5) ... Starting internet superserver: inetdinvoke-rc.d: initscript openbsd-inetd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing openbsd-inetd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netbase: netbase depends on openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver; however: Package openbsd-inetd is not configured yet. Package inet-superserver is not installed. Package openbsd-inetd which provides inet-superserver is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base: exim4-base depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-light: exim4-daemon-light depends on exim4-base (>= 4.63); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4: exim4 depends on exim4-base (>= 4.63); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however: Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet. Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed. dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-common: nfs-common depends on netbase (>= 4.24); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nfs-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-kernel-server: nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common (>= 1:1.0.8-1); however: Package nfs-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nfs-kernel-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: samba depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing samba (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of smbfs: smbfs depends on netbase (>= 2.02); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing smbfs (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of swat: swat depends on samba (= 3.0.24-4); however: Package samba is not configured yet. swat depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing swat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: openbsd-inetd netbase exim4-base exim4-daemon-light exim4 nfs-common nfs-kernel-server samba smbfs swat E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up openbsd-inetd (0.20050402-5) ... Starting internet superserver: inetdinvoke-rc.d: initscript openbsd-inetd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing openbsd-inetd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netbase: netbase depends on openbsd-inetd | inet-superserver; however: Package openbsd-inetd is not configured yet. Package inet-superserver is not installed. Package openbsd-inetd which provides inet-superserver is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing netbase (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of smbfs: smbfs depends on netbase (>= 2.02); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing smbfs (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of swat: swat depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing swat (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-base: exim4-base depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: samba depends on netbase; however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing samba (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-common: nfs-common depends on netbase (>= 4.24); however: Package netbase is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nfs-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4-daemon-light: exim4-daemon-light depends on exim4-base (>= 4.63); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-kernel-server: nfs-kernel-server depends on nfs-common (>= 1:1.0.8-1); however: Package nfs-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nfs-kernel-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of exim4: exim4 depends on exim4-base (>= 4.63); however: Package exim4-base is not configured yet. exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | exim4-daemon-custom; however: Package exim4-daemon-light is not configured yet. Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed. Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed. dpkg: error processing exim4 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: openbsd-inetd netbase smbfs swat exim4-base samba nfs-common exim4-daemon-light nfs-kernel-server exim4 > 2. I've never used tasksel. I always use aptitude interactivly. > But changing to aptitude is a whole other kettle of fish. I never use tasksel either, but this time I thought that it would be the best way to remove the same "group" of programs I installed using tasksel; like "Web Server". -- Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
