That solved it! I tried the 'getent' command and it found nothing, so I resolved to just find anything mentioning dba_group_gid... turned out that some lines I added to /etc/sysctl.conf while trying to install Oracle (working from a fairly informative blog posting about installing Oracle on Debian) had me add those lines to that file. Luckily I'd commented that portion when I made those changes, so I could tell what was going on. I commented out that line... then crossed my fingers, jumped as high as I could while whispering "tabitha" and doing two 360-degree turns before landing... and after roughly 1,000,000,000 downloads, triggers and updates, I'm now back on Jessie with my packages updating.
Thank you!! On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, Sentientmeat Net wrote: > > Hmm, I tried to figure out what group id might be required to replace... > > > > 'vm.hugetlb_shm_grop dba_group_gid' > > > > ...with, in... > > > > /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/sysctl.d/* (and I have no idea where or which > > package 'dba_group_gid' came from--something standard and maintained I'm > > 99.9% sure). > > Well, if you find the file that has it, it'll be more obvious what it > is. (But using codesearch.debian.net, I don't find any matches for > dba_group_gid in Debian... so it's likely to not be in Debian at all.) > > > I ran 'id -g dba_group_gid' as you suggested. Unfortunately it replies > > like this, that there IS no such user: > > > > # id -g dba_group_gid > > > id: dba_group_gid: no such user > > > > > > Any more ideas? I appreciate mightily the suggestions. > > Sorry, id was the wrong command.[1] You want something like: > > getent group dba_group_gid; > > instead. > > If there's no match at all, then that group doesn't exist, and you can > just delete that line completely. > > 1: id only works for user names, not group names, and I keep forgetting > that. > > -- > Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com > > I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended > up where I needed to be. > -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141007175346.gf23...@rzlab.ucr.edu > >
