Re: Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2008-06-23 Thread Joe Hickey
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:20:44AM +0100, Jason Williams wrote: > Have the same problem as Graham did, but I'm still new at this and don't > really understand how to find and disable running process(s)? Please > help, trying to get my soundcard working, really doing my head in. A simple way of fin

Re: Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2008-06-23 Thread Jason Williams
Have the same problem as Graham did, but I'm still new at this and don't really understand how to find and disable running process(s)? Please help, trying to get my soundcard working, really doing my head in. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:02:29PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta > > package. > > > > > > I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with > > > >

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta > package. > > > I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with > > debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale > > I get back > > locales locales/lo

debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta package. I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale I get back locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_AU ISO-8859-1, en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO-

Re: Re: debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-12 Thread Felix Lechner
> anybody tell from the information below where the problem should be > reported? > > Package maintainer Chris Lawrence has not yet responded. > > Sincerely, > Felix > > Original Message > Subject: debconf problem in foomatic-filters > Date:

Re: debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
d be > reported? > > Package maintainer Chris Lawrence has not yet responded. > > Sincerely, > Felix > > ---- Original Message > Subject: debconf problem in foomatic-filters > Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:43:34 -0500 > From: Felix Lechner > To: Chr

debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-08 Thread Felix Lechner
, Felix Original Message Subject: debconf problem in foomatic-filters Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:43:34 -0500 From: Felix Lechner To: Chris Lawrence Hello Chris, I have a problem installing foomatic-filters_3.0.2-20061031-1.2_all.deb. For some reason, the config mechanism for

Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sat 01 Jun 2002 10:16am +1000 from Joey Hess: > Graham Williams wrote: > > I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current > > with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: > > > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is lock

Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
Graham Williams wrote: > I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current > with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by > another process > > and the various messages about > >

Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Graham Williams
I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process and the various messages about Package debconf is not configured yet.

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Fri, 10 May 2002 11:48:55 -0700 "Eric Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then > one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the monitor blanks > out for power saving. Next you come back and press space bar and the

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Webb
Also just use something like the "ALT" key instead of the spacebar. You shouldn't have a problem then. Joey Hess wrote: Eric Richardson wrote: I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody.The

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Richardson wrote: > I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is > that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody. > > The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then > one of these configuration screens comes up, and then

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>whatever question was pending goes through before you have a chance to >>>answer it. It's like hitting the space bar acts as a return and the >>>default action gets executed. >> The reason why i always press Strg/Ctrl to get out of Screensavermode >>

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-13 Thread Eric Richardson
Joerg Jaspert wrote: Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: whatever question was pending goes through before you have a chance to answer it. It's like hitting the space bar acts as a return and the default action gets executed. The reason why i always press Strg/Ctrl to get out of Sc

Re: debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-10 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Eric Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > whatever question was pending goes through before you have a chance to > answer it. It's like hitting the space bar acts as a return and the > default action gets executed. The reason why i always press Strg/Ctrl to get out of Screensavermode :) --

debconf problem during upgrade

2002-05-10 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody. The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the monitor blanks out fo

Re: Debconf problem - won't configure itself

2001-11-17 Thread Joey Hess
Morbo wrote: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome > debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at > /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 35. You need to upgrade to debconf

Debconf problem - won't configure itself

2001-11-17 Thread Morbo
Hi, I've tried an update on my testing (Woody) machine. Some packages won't configure though, because Debconf isn't configured yet. But I can't configure Debconf. I have all Perl 5.6 packages installed according to dselect running: dpkg --configure debconf results in the following: Gdk-WARNING *

Re: debconf problem

2001-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Viljo Marrandi wrote: > > If you are not trying to run unstable or testing, you need to change all > > occurrances of Debconf::Question to DebConf::Question (note case change) in > > /var/lib/debconf/*.db. > > I am running stable (as stable as it is now, though). I changed all to > DebConf::Questi

Re: debconf problem

2001-05-18 Thread Viljo Marrandi
> > I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of > > 2.2 system > > To unstable or testing? How long ago, about 3 months, I take it? unstable i suppose. And yes, it was long time ago, maybe even 3 months > So you say you just upgraded? This appears like you upgraded to

Re: debconf problem

2001-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Viljo Marrandi wrote: > I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of > 2.2 system To unstable or testing? How long ago, about 3 months, I take it? > What is this object method "value" it's trying to access? Some module that > i've removed by an 'accident'? If anyone ha

debconf problem

2001-05-17 Thread Viljo Marrandi
Greetings, I have following problem - some time ago i was upgragding some parts of 2.2 system and apparently screwed something really up. When i try to install some new packages that require debconf i get error (at the end of message), btw. i get same error when trying to install debconf too. I ch

Building Xfree 4.0.3 source package on potato (debconf problem?)

2001-03-09 Thread Arcady Genkin
I've been trying to compile my own X4.02 debs using "apt-get source". The problem is that xfree v4.0.2 has libglide2-dev libglide3-dev as build dependencies. I was able to build the .deb's for the libglib, BUT, they won't install because my debconf is too old for them (they want debconf (>= 0.3.74

Re: apt-get install debconf problem

2001-01-30 Thread Vinod Kurup
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 05:48:42PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > I am having some trouble installing/upgrading debconf from unstable...is > > anybody having a similar problem? > > Yeah, I got several errors related to Perl and installing Perl 5.6 (which > it did, since it or whatever depended on

Re: apt-get install debconf problem

2001-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
/debconf/gettext.pm...something about a reserved word ("our") being > used. template.pm also reported an error. > > > >From: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: john smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re

Re: apt-get install debconf problem

2001-01-30 Thread john smith
an-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: apt-get install debconf problem Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:30:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [198.144.200.155] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBC408B680021D820F3D8C690C89B12290; Tue Jan 30 14:30:00 2001 Received: by kitenet.net (Postfix, fr

Re: apt-get install debconf problem

2001-01-30 Thread Bart Szyszka
> I am having some trouble installing/upgrading debconf from unstable...is > anybody having a similar problem? Yeah, I got several errors related to Perl and installing Perl 5.6 (which it did, since it or whatever depended on it also depended on Perl 5.6) didn't help. I ended up formatting and ins

Re: apt-get install debconf problem

2001-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
john smith wrote: > I am having some trouble installing/upgrading debconf from unstable...is > anybody having a similar problem? That's rather hard to tell since you have not explained what the problem is. You may just need to instal perl-5.6 first though. -- see shy jo

apt-get install debconf problem

2001-01-30 Thread john smith
hi, I am having some trouble installing/upgrading debconf from unstable...is anybody having a similar problem? thanks. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Re: Debconf problem after upgrade

2000-01-28 Thread Todd Suess
I get this message at times too, as far as I can tell, it's harmless. Todd On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I started to run 'apt-get upgrade' today and I get this: > > Configuring packages ... > WARNING: Using deprecated debconf compatibility library. > > I stopped the process fr

Debconf problem after upgrade

2000-01-27 Thread Pollywog
I started to run 'apt-get upgrade' today and I get this: Configuring packages ... WARNING: Using deprecated debconf compatibility library. I stopped the process from continuing and I don't know if it is safe to proceed. Does anyone else get this too? I am using Potato. -- Andrew --