From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc1-hems4-0-cust107.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.105.88.107]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B0C482A for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:06:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id A4B3DB00C; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:07:48 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:07:48 +0100 From: Richard Hirst To: "Carlos O'Donell Jr." , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, baldric-exec@baldric.uwo.ca Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Users staying up to date. Message-ID: <20010828000748.G7064@linuxcare.com> References: <20010814154037.I25258@megatonmonkey.net> <20010815010034.K22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20010814215030.A26703@megatonmonkey.net> <20010815041610.M22144@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20010817155340.C8649@megatonmonkey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20010817155340.C8649@megatonmonkey.net>; from carlos@megatonmonkey.net on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:53:40PM -0400 List-ID: On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 03:53:40PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell Jr. wrote: > > > > /usr/share/locale > > /usr/share/locale/cs > > /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES > > /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo > > > > I seem to remember someone saying this was a bug in an old version > > of dpkg. So one way around this may be to dpkg --remove texinfo, then > > install dpkg, then install texinfo again. > > > > I tried removing texinfo. Sadly, what proceeds to occur is a > relative chain of packages that continually depend on > /usr/share/locale/cs, all the way down to 'tar.' At which point > I had lost most of my system functionality and was scp'ing > binaries into /bin to keep it alive. > > A fruitless effort, but interesting none the less. ;) > > When I get home tonight I'll roll a new kernel and do more testing. > > How does the installer get around this problem? > Since it too must start with a base system? > (Maybe it's just my misunderstanding of the complete inner workings > of hte installer). The installer starts with a bunch of .debs which are sufficiently new that they don't have the apt-segv problem. That is the case for the 0.9.2 ISO, anyway. You might me able to do a fresh install from the 0.9.2 ISO to get a more stable system. If you don't want to do that, you could try using dpkg -i to install .debs from that ISO. Possibly a dpkg -i *.deb in the binary-hppa/base dir might just work. You should probably be running a new(ish) kernel before you do that. Richard