On Saturday, March 30, 2019 04:12:05 PM rh kramer wrote: > I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed > things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie > system.
Things might be OK. Things I did: * googled for errorackage -- found some pages but not much help -- some pages gave long lists of instructions to try, but it sounded more like a shotgun approach than any real knowledge based thing. Some people thought it meant a hardware bus error, some thought some kind of memory problem (hardware or not), others just suggested commands to try -- maybe there is a better page out there that I didn't find * Aside: what the heck does errorackage mean / stand for and what is it telling me? Who came up with that "word"? * I edited sources.list to get rid of the jessie-updates (I don't think that did anything significant with respect to the errorackage error) * I did a df and found /boot and /var close to full, I examined /var expecting to find a lot of space used for the apt archives, but instead there was a bunch of stuff (in /var/tmp as opposed to /var/cache/apt/archives) related to mkinit... (I'm writing from a different computer, so I couldn't copy and paste) -- something like over 1.5 GB -- deleted all that, then did: apt-get update apt-get upgrade That seemed to work pretty well, I mean, it seemed to install everything except the new linux kernel which was held back. tried: apt-get dist-upgrade Found a message in there that said a partition / filesystem was out of space -- /var looked ok, so cleared out some space in /boot by deleting an old kernel (something like n.n.n -04) tried apt-get dist-upgrade This time saw a message that it didn't work and suggested that I try apt-get -f install <and then, presumably, a packagename> instead, I tried apt-get -f dist-upgrade That seemed to work, so things may be ok -- I guess I'll have to watch the system for a while and think about rebooting (to put the new kernel in service). > > What I did and why: > > I understood from some other posts on the list that the mirrored > repositories for Wheezy and Jessie went away in early March, so (for > Jessie) I found a post that told me what the content of > /etc/apt/sources.list should be for Jessie LTS. > > I then ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade below are the results. > > I think I know how to fix one part of the problem -- I think I need to > remove the references to jessie-updates from the sources.list file. But, > I'm fairly sure that won't solve what looks to me like the bigger problem: > > root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade > Bus errorackage lists... 1% > root@s31:~# > > Oh, an extra credit question: are there mirrors I can use for Jessie LTS or > must I use debian.org? If there are mirrors I can use, where would I find > those? > > Here is what I put in the sources.list file: > > from an email: On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès <pierre.fou...@gmail.com> > wrote: ... > > For Jessie LTS "/etc/apt/sources.list should look like this one:" > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free > > deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free > > Here are the results I got from running apt-get update and then apt-get > upgrade: > > <quote> > root@s31:~# apt-get update > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie > InRelease > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates > InRelease > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease > Get:1 http://deb.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,420 B] > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates Release.gpg > Get:2 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources [305 kB] > Get:3 http://deb.debian.org jessie Release [148 > kB] > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Sources > Get:4 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [664 > kB] Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates > Release > Get:5 http://deb.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7,063 kB] > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64 > Packages > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free amd64 > Packages > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib > Translation-en > Get:6 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en [335 > kB] > Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free > Translation-en > Get:7 http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib Sources [50.4 > kB] > Get:8 http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free Sources [99.2 > kB] > Get:9 http://deb.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,818 > kB] > Get:10 http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages [49.8 > kB] > Get:11 http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages [83.2 > kB] > Get:12 http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en [38.3 > kB] > Get:13 http://deb.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4,581 > kB] > Get:14 http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en [72.0 > kB] > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 > Packages > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 > Packages > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64 > Packages > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free > Sources > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 > Packages > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 > Packages > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64 > Packages > > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Sources > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib > Sources > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free > Sources > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 > Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 > Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64 > Packages > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib > Translation-en_US > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib > Translation-en > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Translation-en_US > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main > Translation-en > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free > Translation-en_US > Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free > Translation-en > Fetched 19.5 MB in 1min 16s (255 > kB/s) > W: Failed to fetch > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/source/Sources 404 > Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > > W: Failed to fetch > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/source/Sources > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > > W: Failed to fetch > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/source/Sources > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > > W: Failed to fetch > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/main/binary-amd64/Package > s 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > > W: Failed to fetch > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/contrib/binary-amd64/Pack > ages 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > > W: Failed to fetch > http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/non-free/binary-amd64/Pac > kages 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80] > > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones > used instead. > root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade > Bus errorackage lists... 1% > root@s31:~# > </quote>