Re: Common bugs in wheezy AMD 64 bit
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:26:26PM +0530, Rupesh Reddy wrote:
> Sir I have already mentioned that package management is not good in debian
> based distributions than rpm based distributions then you have answered
> that apt package manager is very sophisticated and I believed in you and I
> have obtained Debian wheezy AMD64bit dvd's and installed the system two
> times and and these installations has taken completely one month even not
> succeeded.
>
> What I have noticed is that debian installation dvd's contain buggy
> software and the total debian system is worse.
>
> I have never experienced in my life such errors while operating wheezy
> system and the errors I encountered frequently are
> 1) Input output error
> 2) segmentation fault
> 3) while installing software using synaptic getting read errors even though
> I have copied all the iso images to harddisk and created local repositories.
Report RC bugs if things crash. Crashes can happen, especially in the packages
that are not widely used, because they are not tested enough. You found those
crashes, so report them and don't complain, otherwise they can't be fixed.
> 4) Even when there is power failure I am facing problems regarding packages
What? If my power fails, I can't work anymore because my system has no
power. What are you talking about?
>
> Many people in debian forums suggested and argued that dont install all the
> software contained in local repositories but I am not sure whether a
> particular package which is useful for me will not contain bugs.
>
> At first time I have installed 32000 packages foolishly and thought debian
> system cant go wrong and finally the system resulted in broken state
You can't install all packages, this is impossible, because packages
can conflict with each other. Some packages provide the same program
(such as the various MTAs), so installing all of them cannot work.
If you want a system where you can install all packages, Slackware
might work for you. But Slackware obviously does not have as many
packages as Debian.
> When I try to remove broken system the package management subsystem is
> unable to remove a package or even install a new package and
> frequently throwing the following error
> Unable to initialize frontend Newt:
> and then the installation process or removal process stops.
APT does not use Newt, so you're definitely at the wrong address here. You
must have done some hard work to produce this breakage, though. In fact,
nothing in the package management part (must) use newt. I assume that
debconf can use newt if it asks questions via whiptail, but this all
does not really matter, as it should not break if used normally.
>
> At present I am in second installation and I have installed main packages
> which are useful to me
> Now the problem is package manager is throwing frequently that there is an
> error at line ... in /var/lib/dpkg/status file and when I correct it again
> it is showing the same.
> So I have copied the status-old file to status now I am getting the
> following error
> root@Rupesh:~# aptitude search ~b
> [ ERR] Reading package lists
> E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> E: Error occurred while processing libhttp-date-perl (NewVersion2)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> [ ERR] Reading package lists
> E: Problem parsing dependency Depends
> E: Error occurred while processing libhttp-date-perl (NewVersion2)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> root@Rupesh:~#
> Sir I am requesting is there any way to solve this issue.
Don't mess with dpkg's database files by hand if you don't know
how it works. The error message tells you that you broke the Depends
line of the libhttp-date-perl message.
>
> While operating OpenSuse(most user friendly) or atleast Fedora it was a
> nice experience. OpenSuse newer throws the system into broken state and
> also when the system is corrupted it tries to fix the issues at its
> best.You can ask why you have choosed debian then my answer is it offers
> more desktop environments.
You were probably just lucky if you survived an RPM system without
something broken. And if those break, you are often completely out
of luck, whereas you can still repair things in Debian.
> I want to start my career in Linux so can I use Debian or not.
Well, try learning things instead of complaining to (APT)
developers. There are user channels available where you can
get help.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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