Major Failure re-installing system!!!
I have re-installed my Debian Linux system many times over the past
few months...
A few times from hardware failures, once because of a broken package
corrupting my filesystem...
last night I had to do it again...I was recompiling my kernel (adding
NE2000 suport...which I didn't have in the previous custom version)
It would go for a while then I woul dget
cc1 recieved fatal signal 11 ....and it would stop dead
(I was building 2.0.29 on a hamm system)
after a while of "futzing around" I tested the memory (I had a similar
problem recently that was memory related...but these are
completly differnt SIMMS)
The memory tested fine (with memtest86) and I ddecided that since
/home is on a differnt partition than / ...I wont loose much
so I saved soem configs and offf I went
things went well...my method was to
A) install bo from debian 1.3.1 r6 offical CD (which I burned in january
I think)
[when I ran dselect to finish the install, I just allowed it to install
all of the
standard packages, I changed nothing)
B) use my poorly setup hamm disk (burned in late feb b4 freeze) and run
autoup.sh
right off from th disk
[same deal on the dselect, I didn't change anything (excpept I may have
told it
to use emacs20 instead of 19) ]
then I started the install...itt seemed to work ok ...only 2 packages
had problems
both from the "oldlibs" section (tk something I think)
I did the whole reboot/ wtmp/utmp fix...
Then I tried to run dselect again to instal X and everything else I
use...
it tried to install some packages..then died
it gives the following error whenever dpkg is used (which i salso
what dselect uses)
"Archive EOF is not on block boundery" or something to that effect
(very simmilar to that) and also look slike an error in "tar"
the thing is..I tried tar out on some archives..it works fine
I can not get dpkg towork at all with any deb file..on CD or off
any ideas? could this be a hardware problem?
-Steve
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replacement: (ok I admit...I am bored..its a slow day at work)
[sjc@debian ~]$fortune -o
Anything more than 3 shakes is for fun.
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