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- To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
- Subject: Re: Fw: Message with no Package: tag cannot be processed! (Debian Lenny to Squeeze upgrade)
- From: Linda R <lindamarcella@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 05:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Message-id: <1310299347.82769.YahooMailClassic@web120611.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
- In-reply-to: <20110710041109.GA9783@elie>
Hi Jonathan,
Today I ran parted from a live CD, and moved some unused space from my home partition to my root partition, and thank goodness it worked, and booted again. The only thing was it left more small unused fragments, but it's probably not significant.
I went through the upgrade steps again, but no changes. Not sure why some programs like deborphan are marked "deinstall" by dpkg --get-selections "*".
Then I reran pdflatex (part of the TeX package) and googled for similar errors, and found where TeX looks for files, and that the old configuration file was blessedly automatically saved somehow, maybe by the "apt-get dist-upgrade", because there was a question in the saved script asking which configuration file to keep. So, it was like a one-line difference, and changing that fixed Tex (pdflatex and bibtex ran).
And I'm even going to sleep an hour earlier tonight - probably by 5:30 am.
Linda
--- On Sat, 7/9/11, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fw: Message with no Package: tag cannot be processed! (Debian Lenny to Squeeze upgrade)
> To: "Linda R" <lindamarcella@yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, July 9, 2011, 9:11 PM
> Hi Linda,
>
> Linda R wrote:
>
> > I'm sorry I was impatient after spending most of my
> day and all of
> > my night yesterday on this, and was a bit disconcerted
> with the
> > temporary loss of the GUI.
>
> No problem. That's quite understandable.
>
> Some of these problems --- recovery from basic "tasks" (in
> the tasksel
> sense) failing to upgrade and coping with insufficient disk
> space
> during upgrade --- sound improvable indeed. I am
> swamped now but
> would like to send comments on that to the bug log some
> time in the
> next week or so. Please feel free to remind me if I
> drop the ball.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
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