Re: help! netstd screwed up... Other Problems!
Thought I'd mention the primary big problems I had with the update. These
are ones for which I found no answer (I'm hardly a guru, though. I expect
the workaround is out there somewhere.) I thought it might be nice for
whoever's writing the install scripts...
Both gnome and kde were problems. I don't know about the kde issues other
than I Think they are similar to the gnome ones. (Both desktops are options
for me. I actually play mostly with fvwm2/ctwm/other managers.) I need
sleep occasionally.
Gnome packages hung on an issue of a gnome library package apparently trying
to overwrite a file also included in gnome-bin. Renaming the file and
rerunning the install still failed despite gnome-bin not being on that
section of the install list, so I figure it's in the script somewhere? I
"solved" this (after a number of unsuccessful attempts to force an install or
remove one package or another to remove the conflict) by using dselect to
remove all of gnome. The apt-get dist-upgrade apparently continued to
install a few gnome packages. Too late at that point to check.
Imlib also was problematic. This stemmed from /etc/im being linked to
/etc/imlib (probably from an earlier potato update?), causing the install to
attempt copying an rc file onto itself. I delinked the two, and copied imlib
to im. Things proceded smoothly from there.
I don't watch every thread here, so these may have surfaced before. Sorry if
so. But thought it would be best to throw 'em out to the pack.
Kenward
In <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.9910030158090.12008-100000@anomie.dhis.org>, on 10/03/99
at 02:06 AM, Brad <lists@anomie.dhis.org> said:
>> a whimper... Will continue the update and see what happens.
>For the curious, the problem was probably like this:
>1) apt-get dist-upgrade runs through, upgrading tons of stuff.
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