E: Read error - read (21 Is a directory) What is this

I am having a problem with a friend's setup. He suddenly cannot upgrade his system and gets this error whenever he attempts to do so. I have done some searches but only found two references in spanish. apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done E: Read error - read (21 Is a directory) is what

IMAP server

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Re: Backup - USBLink External Hard Drive (40 GB)

Andy Saxena wrote: Has anybody had any luck with the Buslink L40 40 GB External Hard Drive or similar piece of hardware? It seems there is a requirement for a driver for this apart from the usual USB kernel modules. -Andy You might want to take a look at this page. If you look aat the out

Re: suporte

Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I'm going to install Debian Potato at HP Netserver E 800. anyone knows about an onboard NIC that is inside it? TIA,Paulo Henrique. I suppose that is has pci slots, if so when you get to the driver s

Mozilla little problem

The error I receive when I start Mozilla as myself is: could not initialize the browser's security component. The most likely cuase is problems with files in your browser's profile directory. Please check that this directory has no read/write restrictions and your hard disk is not full or close t

wdm problem

After my system boots it hangs at wdm; the mouse works but there is no keyboard access. This is what the ps ax | grep wdm shows [08:09:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps ax | grep wdm 901 ?S 0:00 /usr/bin/X11/wdm 905 ?S< 0:04 /usr/bin/X11/X -auth /var/lib/wdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0

Re: crc error after uncompressing the kernel

I was using the kernel. For a while. After I upgraded my potato to progeny my xserver got changed and has been misbehaving for a while. So I would boot and I would not have access to keyboard; mouse would work. So I had to contantly power down the machine. I think that some parts of the filesy

crc error after uncompressing the kernel

what does it mean when you get a crc error after the lilo prompt and the kernel start uncompressing. It happened with my laptop and I am able to boot the original kernel bot not the new kernels I had compiled after. Badiane

badiane: How do I recompile a package

like postfix for example. If I postfix compiled with specific extensions how do I do that? Is there a good howto on remaking deb packages, getting sources and all that good source? I would like to be able to work with the packages in the same what that I would with .gz packages. Another thing,

badiane: wmaker doesn't work after upgrade

This is a copy of my sources.list. deb ftp://archive.progeny.com/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://archive.progeny.com/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non