On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 6:35 PM, John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> now switch to the X display (Alt+F8 probably) > move cursor to the xterm, and > # /usr/bin/startxfce4 > > now see what happens. Now, no, I think I should change the subject or start a new thread? It seems my install simply fails me completely now. I had to do some repair when booting a few days back, then it worked and now the repair tends to come up at boot, again. But even if it doesn't, it is not okay. Unfortunately, all messages flash by too quickly, and don't show in dmesg neither. But there is always something like /dev/shm not found, some udevdevdevsdev-message, the wireless is recognized, but fails latrer during boot, and now apt-get also shows some weird messages. That means, I better forget the whole thing and install, again, after some 3 years? But I'd still like to save/backup as much as possible. The following script shows some of the misery: % apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 10 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4) ... Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk. /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs-kpkg: line 35: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Setting up libxul0d (1.8.0.15~pre080323b-0etch2) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/libxul0d.postinst: line 6: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied dpkg: error processing libxul0d (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread: acroread depends on libxul0d; however: Package libxul0d is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-debian-files: acroread-debian-files depends on acroread (>= 8.1.2); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-debian-files (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-escript: acroread-escript depends on acroread (>= 8.1.2-0.3); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-escript (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-plugins: acroread-plugins depends on acroread (>= 8.1.2-0.3); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. acroread-plugins depends on acroread-escript; however: Package acroread-escript is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-plugins (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up iceweasel (2.0.0.14-0etch1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/iceweasel.postinst: line 12: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied dpkg: error processing iceweasel (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mozilla-firefox: mozilla-firefox depends on iceweasel (>= 2.0.0.14-0etch1); however: Package iceweasel is not configured yet. mozilla-firefox depends on iceweasel (<< 2.0.0.14-0etch1.1~); however: Package iceweasel is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing mozilla-firefox (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xulrunner-gnome-support: xulrunner-gnome-support depends on libxul0d; however: Package libxul0d is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xulrunner-gnome-support (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acroread-data: acroread-data depends on acroread (>= 8.1.2-0.3); however: Package acroread is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing acroread-data (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 libxul0d acroread acroread-debian-files acroread-escript acroread-plugins iceweasel mozilla-firefox xulrunner-gnome-support acroread-data E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Is there any 'repair' function in Debian, some checking of packages? Uwe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
