Re: Locking Hurd
Ok, I am answering my own question here.. But it seems
that my system is probably just running out of
memory..
/me adds swap now
--- jc <bluelexy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On a side note, my system keeps psuedo freezing
> while
> doing an apg-get operations. All the terminals
> stop working, including the console.. Numlock still
> toggles the led on the keyboard, and I can still
> ICMP
> ping the machine from my linux box.
>
> Any new connections made to the telnet port accept
> the
> connection, but no login prompt is issued....
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> --- Steve Bowman <sbowman@frostwork.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:11:32PM -0700, jc
> wrote:
> > > apt-get output:
> > > bsdutils: Depends: sysvinit (>= 2.59-2) but it
> is
> > not
> > > installable
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there anything to be done about this?
> >
> > Learn to use "dpkg -i --force-conflicts <pkgfile>"
> > when needed. Without
> > versioned Provides, you'll need to use it on a few
> > packages. Typically,
> > for packages that version depend on things
> provided
> > by the hurd package.
> >
> > Ummm. Looking at the Packages file a bit.... I
> > don't recall a problem
> > with bsdutils (but I'm using dselect/apt instead
> of
> > apt-get), but I see
> > bsdutils has a versioned depends on shellutils
> which
> > has a versioned
> > conflict with login which is provided by hurd.
> I'm
> > pointing this out
> > because, IIRC, I had to --force-conflicts to
> install
> > shellutils after
> > which everything was fine. I don't know if this
> > conflict has been
> > resolved yet or you've run into a different one.
> > Strictly speaking, this
> > isn't a hurd problem but a limitation of the
> package
> > management system.
> >
> > A word of warning, it's possible to shoot your
> foot
> > off by using
> > --force-conflicts carelessly. Make sure you know
> > what the conflict is
> > and why you're overriding it before proceeding.
> One
> > of the reasons
> > I use dselect is because I _like_ the conflict
> > resolution screens -
> > I think they're helpful in sorting this kind of
> > stuff out. YMMV.
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Steve
> >
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