Further on the DSELECT saga.....
Yesterday, I reported that I was unable to install packages using dselect. I
discovered this morning that I had done something really silly.....I have
removed the CD from the drive and put it away........D'OHHHHHHHH .....
However....it still isn't working correctly, and so I am describing the
CURRENT problem as follows (in step form) :
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(1) Firstly, I keyed in 'mount' with no parameters. As you can see, the
cdrom is not recorded as being mounted at this stage :
"/dev/hdb2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/cdrive type msdos (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/ddrive type msdos (rw)"
(2) I then went into dselect, and attempted to install some packages, and I
got the following message .... straight away, that is, with no other
messages at all :
"Installation OK. Hit RETURN."
(In other words, it did nothing.....I might add that I had first attempted
to change some selections by going into option 2 - the select option -
before installing)
(3) So then I attempted to mount the cdrom, and the following was the
command and the result :
# mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
"mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only"
So far, so good (I think....).
(4) Then, once again, I keyed in mount with no parameters, and got the
following :
"/dev/hdb2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/cdrive type msdos (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/ddrive type msdos (rw)
/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
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(5) I also went to the directory /mnt/cdrom, and did a "dir" - it read the
contents of the CD, no problems. So in other words, it could still read off
the device.
(6) Finally, I went back in to dselect, and attempted once again to install
some packages, and got the following message :
"mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is mounted on /mnt/cdrom
installation script returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.
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As always, any help appreciated.....
regards,
Andrew J Fortune
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