tom arnall wrote:
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:37, Marty wrote:tom arnall wrote: > Marty, > > should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing > sources.list to the new repository. Well, fix that. :-) > loro@debian:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade It's a typical cascade of errors caused by the first few individual package dependency problems. Again I don't know what dist-upgrade did, but dselect should recover or at least fix most of the problems, assuming you address the permissions issues in /etc raised by Daniel and point to the right repository. Good luck. Keep posting if you have problems. If may be a hard slog, but you can probably be walked though this.thanks for the help Marty. i have decided to do a reset and reinstall. i broke my system doing the 'chmod -R 777 /dev' and i think i just need to bite the bullet and do what others recommended back then. not doing it and asking for help with some of the consequent problems is really a bit much ;o).tom arnall arcata
Good luck. It sounds like your best option for now, but for the record I don't think it would any big deal to fix your system. I've made worse mistakes, but I also realize that not everyone has the time or inclination to perform surgery on a broken install in the name of science or hack value. :-)