Re: Aptitude extended state file

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I think this problem may have something to do with NFS. My home partition > on this machine is NFS-mounted, and I use NIS to get user account info. > When I create a test user on the NIS/NFS server, aptitude gives the same > warning message for him

Re: Aptitude extended state file

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Can anyone tell me what file is Aptitude's extended state file? > > It is /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates Hmm. Well, the permissions on pkgstates look ok: -rw-r--r--1 root root 671804 Jun 16 12:52 pkgstates I think t

Re: Aptitude extended state file

2002-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
t password. > 3) Aptitude gives me an error message, >"W: Can't open Aptitude extended state file" >but when I click OK, everything seems to work properly. That's weird. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Aptitude extended state file

2002-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
g else that requires root access, so I enter the root password. 3) Aptitude gives me an error message, "W: Can't open Aptitude extended state file" but when I click OK, everything seems to work properly. I don't get this message if I su to root before running aptitude.