Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-11 Thread David Christensen
On 07/10/2012 06:46 PM, Claudius Hubig wrote: So the problem is apparently in the building of the initrd and its detection of ‘necessary’ modules That sounds plausible. Unfortunately, I don't have knowledge of of initramfs system. Looking at it's /etc tree and a few man pages, I might be ab

Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-10 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, David Christensen wrote: > The warning "target sda2_crypt uses a key file, skipped" doesn't make > sense -- /dev/sda2 does not use a key file: > > 2012-07-10 17:18:38 root@i72600s ~ > # cat /etc/crypttab > sda2_crypt UUID=c020df80-6439-4e9e-a70e-0ff303d61180 none,discard luks > s1f

Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-10 Thread David Christensen
On 07/09/2012 08:40 AM, Claudius Hubig wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) David Christensen wrote: Loading Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... Loading, please wait... Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: - Boot args (cat /proc/

Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-09 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello David, David Christensen wrote: > Loading Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 ... > Loading initial ramdisk ... > Loading, please wait... > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) > - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait

Re: apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-09 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 07:30:42 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I have an Intel DQ67SW motherboard with Intel i7-2600S processor and > have installed debian-6.0.5-amd64 and the 3.2 kernel from backports. > > > I ran "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" yesterday. Since then, the > system fails

apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and now system fails to boot

2012-07-09 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have an Intel DQ67SW motherboard with Intel i7-2600S processor and have installed debian-6.0.5-amd64 and the 3.2 kernel from backports. I ran "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" yesterday. Since then, the system fails to boot: Loading Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 ...

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2002-05-22 Thread Jens Ellegiers
Wouldn't it make sense to change the installation process to use woody instead of testing ? The last installation CDs I tested selected apt servers with testing and not woody as distribution. Regards Jens On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 14:43, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Shawn Lamson wrote: > > deb http://ht

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2002-05-22 Thread Rene Engelhard
Shawn Lamson wrote: > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free > > I havent seen any updates for weeks - is this a sign of woody goi

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2002-05-22 Thread Shawn Lamson
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian woody main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free I havent seen any updates for weeks - is this a sign of woody going stable and not getting upda

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2001-06-21 Thread G.LeeJohnson
I'm trying to do a upgrade to unstable from stable progeny and I did the ususal: apt-get update ..then apt-get dist-upgrade something went wrong during i think computer froze and I wasn't able to respond to prompts given..what did happen though is now netscape seems symlinked to that

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2001-06-21 Thread der.hans
Am 19. Jun, 2001 schwäzte thomas so: > hi, > > i want to run the above as a cron job (like many do i guess). but > sometimes apt-get asks me if i want to replace the configuration files, > and i always answer N. but the only option with apt-get is -y, which will > probably (i havent tried it out

Re: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Colin Watson
thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i want to run the above as a cron job (like many do i guess). but >sometimes apt-get asks me if i want to replace the configuration files, >and i always answer N. but the only option with apt-get is -y, which >will probably (i havent tried it out) replace the my c

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

2001-06-18 Thread thomas
hi, i want to run the above as a cron job (like many do i guess). but sometimes apt-get asks me if i want to replace the configuration files, and i always answer N. but the only option with apt-get is -y, which will probably (i havent tried it out) replace the my config files with the default ones

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-13 Thread Ekkehard Krämer
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > You may want to investigate 'capt', which replaces dselect. I will do that. But there seem to be a lot of "dselect replacements" lately... is capt the "official" replacement? > > Can this be achieved somehow, so I can keep track of "new" packages > > better? > Re-

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-13 Thread kmself
on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 10:09:22AM +, Ekkehard Kraemer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only > > If I run apt-get from inside dselect (with "U" in the main menu), then >

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-13 Thread Ekkehard Kraemer
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only If I run apt-get from inside dselect (with "U" in the main menu), then when I "S"elect packages the first time, all packages that are new will be displayed at the top of all pac

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-12 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 12 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > 1) Use "apt-get -d upgrade", so the files will be downloaded but not >installed. So you can run an apt-get upgrade in the morning while >disconnected, since all files were fetched, and then you'll bne >able to interact with dpkg. Tha

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-12 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 06:37:10PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: Walter Tautz writes: > > > Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that > > configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. > > > Is the -q option appropriate? .any advice? > > > -walter > >

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
rade as a matter of course. Particularly if > you're tracking unstable. > My preference: > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only Maybe do an apt-get update first, then choose the wanted packages, and put only an apt-get -y upgrade in the crontab? That way he'd have

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-12 Thread kmself
#x27;re tracking unstable. My preference: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --download-only ...which will archive updated .debs, but not install them. I manually run an 'upgrade' once or twice a week. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelera

Re: running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-12 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Walter Tautz writes: > Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that > configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. > Is the -q option appropriate? .any advice? > -walter Assuming you want to download the files at night, for example. I believe you can either:

running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade as a cronjob?

2000-11-12 Thread Walter Tautz
Just wondering if this is possible in view of the fact that configuration is sometime done and so requires interaction. Is the -q option appropriate? .any advice? -walter