Re: Why, oh why, will bugs.debian.org not accept an update to my BT
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:02:48PM +0200, Peder Chr. Nørgaard wrote:
> I really hope this is the right place to report this problem - I found the
> e-mail address on <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>.
A littler higher on the page you can find owner@bugs.debian.org, which
are the people that can actually help you (CCing).
> This is the problem: Earlier today I issued a bug report to debian - 446106.
> When I now try to follow up on the report, the mails are
> rejected "administratively" - please see the attached report. This is quite
> unacceptable - I wish to proceed in solution of the problem, not fight e-mail
Content-Description: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@pasmtpb.tele.dk>: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
> From: Mail Delivery System <MAILER-DAEMON@pasmtpB.tele.dk>
> Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender
> To: pcn@pogt.dk
>
Content-Description: Notification
> This is the Postfix program at host pasmtpB.tele.dk.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
> The Postfix program
>
> <446106@bugs.debian.org>: host bugs.debian.org[140.211.166.43] said: 550
> Administrative prohibition (in reply to end of DATA command)
Content-Description: Delivery report
> Reporting-MTA: dns; pasmtpB.tele.dk
> X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 533C5E30DE5
> X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; pcn@pogt.dk
> Arrival-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:52:56 +0200 (CEST)
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; 446106@bugs.debian.org
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
> Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host bugs.debian.org[140.211.166.43] said: 550
> Administrative prohibition (in reply to end of DATA command)
Content-Description: Undelivered Message
> From: "Peder Chr. Nørgaard" <pcn@pogt.dk>
> Reply-To: nvidia-glxfailstoinstall
> To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: Bug#446106: nvidia-glx fails to install
> Cc: 446106@bugs.debian.org
>
> On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
> >
> > Can you please try aptitude instead of apt-get? Aptitude has an
> > interactive resolver that can try several solutions and generally
> > gives more information than apt-get.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sven
>
> Sven, that was a really good piece of advice. aptitude indicated that the
> problem was a conflict with package libgl1-mesa-swx11. I could not remove
> that package without killing xorg&kde. But I could install libgl1-mesa-glx -
> that removed libgl1-mesa-swx11 and a few other libraries while evidently
> satisfying the necessary dependencies. After that, installing nvidia-glx
> worked.
>
> So we (the fraction of the Debian community using non-free nvidia code) really
> have two problems:
>
> 1) that in this case - which I think will happen to everyone trying to install
> nvidia-glx on an october 2007 "sid" debian - installing nvidia-glx is
> non-trivial exercise. This could be seen as a bug - at least a documentation
> bug - for nvidia-graphics-driver. The bug is pretty new - I did the same
> exercise on a different "sid" debian system in September and did not hit this
> particular wall.
>
> 2) that apt is giving a completely useless error message in this situation, a
> message that does not help at all figuring out what the real problem is.
> This could be seen as a bug for apt.
>
> Any suggestions as on how to proceed? I don't have a problem any longer - but
> a lot of other people might.
>
> best regards
> --
> Peder Chr. Nørgaard e-mail: pcn@pogt.dk
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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