Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-22 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Huh. Whadya know. I loaded Wheezy 64-bit and the same problem occurred. Connected the system directly to the network interface and the problem vanished. Connected it directly to the IPCop fir

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy wrote: > Installed the https transport package to try https: in sources.list. But now > I > see a few "Failed to connect to 2001:500:61:28::70: Network is unreachable" > (or address 2607:ea00:101:3c0b:207:e9ff:fe00:e595). Why are any IPV6 addrs > being used? Why not?

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-16 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 15 June 2012 02:07:02 Claudius Hubig wrote: > Hello Neal, > > Neal Murphy wrote: > > Aptitude also reports "W: GPG error on security.debian.org > > squeeze/updates Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA > > 2" > > > > So I give up. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
No network problems over here either. No firewall since I have nothing listening on my system and have no problem going out to web or ssh. On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. >

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy wrote: > Aptitude also reports "W: GPG error on security.debian.org squeeze/updates > Release: the following signatures were invalid: NODATA 2" > So I give up. Next time I'm down there, I'm going to reinstall. Or maybe just > install wheezy to keep both sites the same (

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 13 June 2012 15:24:39 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..network problems. Fix those, and try again. Checked. The host I'm working on shows no networking errors. The firewall shows no errors. The resets do seem to come from the remote (seen using tcpdump on the internet link). There've bee

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 14 iun 12, 04:09:29, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if > I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary mirrors > are only to be used to push files to other secondary mirrors. If > that's the case, terciary downlo

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've been encountering these errors persistently for about the last week too. I usually do echo $? to check the error level after any aptitude operation now. I think ftp.us.debian.org has been designated a primary server and if I understand the mirrors stuff on debian.org correctly primary mi

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:48:44 -0400, Neal wrote in message <201206131348.44297.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu>: > Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? > The system was fine until I installed updates recently. > > -- (...) > > E: Some index files failed to down

Re: what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Neal, Neal Murphy wrote: > W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/non- > free/i18n/Translation-en_US.gz Error reading from server - read (104: > Connection reset by peer) [IP: 128.31.0.36 80] Looks like a connection problem. Is your internet connection alive

what causes these apt-get/aptitude errors?

2012-06-13 Thread Neal Murphy
Any idea what would cause the following errors and how to recover? The system was fine until I installed updates recently. -- Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org squeeze Release.gpg Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/contrib Translation-en Err http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sque

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 16 apr 12, 14:34:33, Tom Roche wrote: > > (Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an > apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.) This is the correct list for apt-get/aptitude usage in Debian ;) [snip] I see that you fixed your problem by usi

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Tom Roche wrote: > > So I did > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > sudo apt-get -f install > > > > which got the packages fixed and installed, as verified by subsequent > > In future, you might want to run "sudo apt-get upgrade" before "sudo > apt-get dist-upgra

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > > So I did > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > sudo apt-get -f install > > which got the packages fixed and installed, as verified by subsequent In future, you might want to run "sudo apt-get upgrade" before "sudo apt-get dist-

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-17 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/16/2012 09:26 PM, Tom Roche wrote: Wayne Topa Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:24:26 -0400 I just looked for lmde in the debian packages and it is not there and it's not in the original post @ http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg01217.html either, because LMDE is not a package I am gues

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Indulekha
Tom Roche wrote: > > Indulekha Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:52:34 -0500 >>> Have you tried "apt-get -f install"? > > No, and using apt-get rather than aptitude was the right idea: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_liter

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Tom Roche
Wayne Topa Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:24:26 -0400 >>> I just looked for lmde in the debian packages and it is not there and it's not in the original post @ http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/04/msg01217.html either, because LMDE is not a package >>> I am guessing the lmde might be a Linux Mint pa

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Wayne Topa wrote: >On 04/16/2012 02:34 PM, Tom Roche wrote: >> >> (Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an >> apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.) >> >> As detailed @ >> >> http://forum.linuxmint

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Indulekha
Tom Roche wrote: [...] > > `sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude full-upgrade` > > aptitude did not die silently! and chugged on until finished. However, > on finish it reported, at the end of a very long scroll (thank you, > gnome-terminal :-) > >> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration

Re: how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/16/2012 02:34 PM, Tom Roche wrote: (Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.) As detailed @ http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99035 recently I successfully upgraded a box with Linux Mi

how to fix aptitude errors upgrading LMDE UP3 -> UP4

2012-04-16 Thread Tom Roche
(Apologies if this is not the correct place to post (is there an apt-user or aptitude-user list?), but it's been helpful in past.) As detailed @ http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=99035 recently I successfully upgraded a box with Linux Mint Debian Edition Update Pack 3 (with which

Re: reporting aptitude errors

2007-12-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:04:19AM +0100, roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > hello > i am receiving a long list of errors from aptitude but i do not know > how to copy and post them here ... If you are running at the command-line, you can click and drag to select text, and then mid

Re: reporting aptitude errors

2007-12-11 Thread Firebeam
roberto wrote: hello i am receiving a long list of errors from aptitude but i do not know how to copy and post them here ... I suppose you run aptitude's "full screen" user interface. You can use it from the command line too, just like apt-get, e.g.: # aptitude install so, this way, I thin

reporting aptitude errors

2007-12-11 Thread roberto
hello i am receiving a long list of errors from aptitude but i do not know how to copy and post them here ... i have checked /var/log/aptitude but the log stops on march, since probably on this machine there have been no update from that date up to now thank you very much -- roberto OS: GNU/Lin

Re: aptitude errors

2005-06-21 Thread Dean Montgomery
I was able to fix the problem by: aptitude reinstall nagios-plugins On Tue, 2005-21-06 at 12:54 -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote: > > > I am unable to get aptitude to work. > > > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude i

Re: aptitude errors

2005-06-21 Thread Ibrahim Mubarak
--- Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote: > > > I am unable to get aptitude to work. > > > > === > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude install cacti > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree >

Re: aptitude errors

2005-06-21 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dean Montgomery wrote: I am unable to get aptitude to work. === [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude install cacti Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Rea

aptitude errors

2005-06-20 Thread Dean Montgomery
I am unable to get aptitude to work. === [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt# aptitude install cacti Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done 2 packages

Aptitude errors

2001-11-22 Thread Mike Kuhar
Happy Thanksgiving All, Strange. I 'apt-get upgrade' both my desktop and laptop today. A new aptitude is installed, 2.7.2-1. After installation, aptitude works great on my laptop. On my desktop, however, I get the following error: aptitude: pkg_grouppolicy.cc:779: void pkg_grouppolicy_ta