Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-08 Thread Sentient Meat Net
Hi Michael. You got that right, exactly. I had followed some instructions from a blog post to install Oracle database on the system, but it was long, incomplete instructions, requiring a fair amount of mucking around in the system for me to try to get it right. I didn't quite get it running yet.

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-07 Thread Sentientmeat Net
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

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.10.2014 um 19:53 schrieb Don Armstrong: > 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 wher

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
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--some

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-07 Thread Sentientmeat Net
Hi Don, 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). I ran

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014, Sentientmeat Net wrote: > # journalctl -b _PID=7477 > -- Logs begin at Sun 2014-10-05 10:05:14 PDT, end at Mon 2014-10-06 > 20:11:54 PDT. -- > Oct 06 19:46:43 sinova systemd-sysctl[7477]: Failed to write > 'dba_group_gid' to '/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group': Invalid argument /

Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-06 Thread Sentientmeat Net
Hi, I've Googled around for where to start to solve this problem, and I can't even begin. I confess, I don't grok systemd or systemctl at all. Suddenly my breezy aptitude updates have broken, and I can't make even the smallest change with apt-get or aptitude. I've tried the -f switch to fix thing