Hi Glad it's sorted out now. I did wonder because I'm using unstable but never encountered your problem. I wondered if you run apt-get upgrade only or did you run apt-get dist-upgrade every now and again? On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:43:08PM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi John, > > I am still enthusiastic about unstable, even after this problem. It > turns out that modutils was pretty much replaced by another package, but > was still installed, and when I got up enough courage to remove it and > purge its files, everything cleared up nicely. Evidently I overlooked > something in a changelog or somewhere that would have told me in advance > to do that. But the advantages of keeping current with Sid far outweigh > the occasional problems that might arise. This is the first problem I > have had with unstable in -- let's see -- closer to a year than to six > months now. One thing that helps is to install apt-listbugs and > apt-listchanges, which warn you during the upgrade process about known > problems. Of course you have to pay attention to those warnings, though. > <smile> > > Chuck > > - -- > The Moon is Waning Gibbous (73% of Full) > Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh > and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFERWt8XnuiIOyDVQURAleFAJ9lK+sjFK0JSozU5AsFZCg8Y/7jLwCfYA4j > HNE9g3ktA74TuZtzL6bp40o= > =L5X8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ---end quoted text--- -- 2E0AXU Blindness Advocacy Self Help (BASH Online) bashonline-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Freedom & Power provided by debian GNU Linux
