Re: apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-20 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Dennis! On 6/20/19 2:50 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Probably not news. > (...) > Anyways a reboot simply results in ye blinking Apple icon of desperation > wherein no OS could be found.  So that was the end of that. I haven't had the time yet to continue working on the issues with grub-ofpat

Re: apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-20 Thread Frank Scheiner
Hi Dennis, during the package upgrade of GRUB, `grub-install` uses `ofpathname` to determine the OF path of the device that holds the GRUB files needed for booting and uses `nvsetenv` to write it to the NVRAM. Unfortunately `ofpathname` doesn't return a working OF path on Power Macs. To fix that

apt-get update and upgrade results in unbootable G5

2019-06-19 Thread Dennis Clarke
Probably not news. Saw this ... ppc64# ppc64# uname -a Linux hydra 5.0.11-genunix #1 SMP Fri May 3 21:37:21 UTC 2019 ppc64 GNU/Linux ppc64# apt-get update Get:1 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease [55.3 kB] Get:2 http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports sid/main all

Re: Sysvinit error on apt-get update

2011-12-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:04:34PM +0100, pe...@kahn.nu wrote: > Hi and thanks for all your hard work. > I have just tried updating my debian hurd install and dpkg fails with the > following error: > > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit_2.88dsf-16_hurd-i386.deb (--unpack): >

Sysvinit error on apt-get update

2011-12-19 Thread peter
Hi and thanks for all your hard work. I have just tried updating my debian hurd install and dpkg fails with the following error: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sysvinit_2.88dsf-16_hurd-i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/sbin/halt', which is also in package hurd 20111206-1 c

Re: apt-get update

2003-07-20 Thread Chris Tillman
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 05:18:05PM +0200, Gerald Frick wrote: > I hate to display my ignorance but I am stumped by a very simple thing. > I have woody installed on a new world imac. I want to upgrade to > testing or unstable but I cannot find where to > indicate the release. I have a 686 machine

Re: apt-get update

2003-07-19 Thread pan
I forgot the most important part :) after you change those lines, run (as root) apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade and you're done On Sat Jul 19, 2003 at 06:33:53PM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You have to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list > >

Re: apt-get update

2003-07-19 Thread pan
You have to edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list Where you have this: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib replace 'stable' with 'testing' or 'unstable', like this deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contribhh Do this in all the lines you hav

apt-get update

2003-07-19 Thread Gerald Frick
I hate to display my ignorance but I am stumped by a very simple thing. I have woody installed on a new world imac. I want to upgrade to testing or unstable but I cannot find where to indicate the release. I have a 686 machine that I upgraded to unstable and in that version the target release

Re: apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-20 Thread Michel Lanners
On 19 Feb, this message from Adam Done echoed through cyberspace: [about 'Dynamic MMap ran out of room' with apt] >> Add >> >> APT::Cache-Limit "8388608"; >> >> to /etc/apt/apt.conf. This will be fixed in the next apt version. >> > > Thank you ever s much.. that worked.. weeks and weeks tr

Re: apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Done
Add APT::Cache-Limit "8388608"; to /etc/apt/apt.conf. This will be fixed in the next apt version. Thank you ever s much.. that worked.. weeks and weeks trying to fix it..and it worked perfectly.. Thank you. -Adam -- Adam Done <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Don, 2003-02-20 at 00:45, Adam Done wrote: > > It has been a while since i have written anything to the list but for > some very very odd reason I have not been able to do an apt-get update > to work properly with unstable main. I have tried to use various > sites

apt-get update with unstable main Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Adam Done
It has been a while since i have written anything to the list but for some very very odd reason I have not been able to do an apt-get update to work properly with unstable main.  I  have tried to use various sites in the /etc/apt/sources.lists and every one I use gives me the same problem as

Re: apt-get update problem

2002-09-13 Thread simon . raven
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 17:07:01 +0200, Roland Wegmann composed: that Ign. line simply means that the URL that apt-get received from the config file (sources.list) is unresolvable, i.e., it cannot find it. it doesn't your box is b0rken, just the URLs. simon > Debian homepage and I always get an

apt-get update problem

2002-09-13 Thread Roland Wegmann
Hello Since several weeks I try to use different sourc.list entries for Openoffice. Till now none of them works. Therefore I have the strong suspicion that my woody box is ill-conditioned. To find out what is wrong, I need to know, what the following output (after using apt-get update) mean

Re: apt-get update seg fault

1999-04-16 Thread Matt Porter
e > > lists: > > Which version of apt? 0.3.4 ? It was an earlier version. It's already upgraded apt _to_ 0.3.4 so I'm not sure what it was before. > > > ERROR > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz > >

Re: apt-get update seg fault

1999-04-16 Thread Hartmut Koptein
? > ERROR > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz > 404 Not Found > --- > > Tried apt-get update again and it worked. Any ideas about the initial > segfault? Maybe I have/had something misconfigured? It seems to work > now. This is s

apt-get update seg fault

1999-04-16 Thread Matt Porter
p.us.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Fetched 528k in 2m6s (4190b/s) Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache.../usr/lib/dpkg//methods/apt/update: line 3: 102 Segmentation fault apt-get update update available list script returned error