Re: linux 2.6 & apt-get
On Friday 28 November 2003 22:20, Alexander Winston wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 10:41, Martin Büchler wrote:
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> > i'm sure that i'm not the first to experience this but i can't find any
> > info about this on the net.
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> > here's my problem:
> > i'm running debian sid (up2date, did a dist-upgrade from kernel 2.4) with
> > kernel 2.6. everything works fine except for apt-get which gives me
> > following error on install/upgrade/dist-upgrade:
> > E: Couldn't determine free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ - statvfs
> > (75 Value too large for defined data type)
> >
> > as said before i've been looking around the net, upgraded debian with a
> > 2.4 kernel, even did a source compile of libc. i'm trying to get this
> > working now for at least 2 weeks with no success, so any help would be
> > great.
> >
> > thanks,
> > martin
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> You would be better off reverting to the 2.4 series of Linux until the
> 2.6 series is no longer beta.
I'd do this at once if just my nforce2 was better supported in 2.4 :( (having
just pio is imho a bit unusable). And except that above mentioned issue
everything works perfectly stable (and final 2.6 is not far away).
What I should have mentioned though is that i host my archives via nfs.
Earlier libc versions gave me a similar error on df which is by now gone.
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