Re: Re: All hung up over netatalk
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Gary Roach<gary719_list1@verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have a dual boot Toshiba Qosmio "laptop?" that I am upgrading from
>>> Lenny
>>> to Squeeze. Everything worked fine (Using Aptitude) until the
>>> installation
>>> of netatalk started; a program that I really don't need. I get:
>>>
>>> hostname: Unknown host
>>>
>>> First /etc/hostname is filled in. When I attempt to reinstall I get the
>>> same
>>> type of error and the process aborts. When I try to remove or purge the
>>> application I get the same result. An of course, Aptitude won't finish
>>> the
>>> upgrade installation because of this error. I get essentially the same
>>> result with dpkg. How can I get out of this mess. Help!
>>>
>>
>> Take a look at the netatalk maintainer scripts in "/var/lib/dpkg/info"
>> to see why they are failing.
>>
>
> The /bin/hostname is not returning the hostname. Is this a bug?
Check "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/init.d/hostname.sh" and whether there
is an Sxxhostname.sh in "/etc/rcS.d".
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