ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 20, Issue 340
David Armour
d.f.armour at shaw.ca
Sun Apr 23 17:26:25 UTC 2006
<major snippage>
>> FYI, /etc/apt/sources.list now reads:
>>
>> deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
>>
>> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
>> ## distribution.
>> deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
>> deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
>>
>> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
>> ## repository.
>> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
>> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
>> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
>> ## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
>> ## team.
>> deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe main restricted
>> multiverse
>> # deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe
>>
>> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
>> ## repository.
>> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
>> ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
>> ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
>> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
>> ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
>> # deb http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main
>> restricted universe multiverse
>> # deb-src http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main
>> restricted universe multiverse
>>
>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
>>
>> # deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
>> # deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
>> # deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main universe
>> multiverse restricted
>>
>>
>> # deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main universe
>> multiverse restricted
>>
>> ...
>>
> heres what your list should look like (i see a few mistakes in yours)
> # Ubuntu supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
>
> # Ubuntu supported packages (sources, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
>
> # Ubuntu community supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
>
> # Ubuntu community supported packages (sources, GPG key: 437D05B5)
> deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
>
> you have security repo comments out and like 4 listings for backports.
> there are no backports for dapper yet.
>
thank you for your pointers which will help immensely. oddly enough, i
thought i *had* commented out the lines for backports at some point
saturday. senility strikes! when's ubuntu coming out with a
'geezer-grade' distribution? :c) sign me up!
everything else seems to be back to normal, otherwise.
> - --
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>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Johnvivirito
> https://launchpad.net/people/gnomefreak
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: repartitioning USB Storage and U3
> From:
> hentaidan at gmail.com
> Date:
> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:50:50 +0100
> To:
> "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> To:
> "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> On 4/22/06, William Stephens <wstephens10 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> So in order to rid myself of this problem I ran cfdisk and deleted all
>> the partition i saw and wrote a new one and then formatted it with mkfs.
>> I got rid of some nonessential files on the drive, yet U3 crap is still
>> there.
>>
>
> I've heard of some devices where that sort of data is read only and
> cant be deleted?
>
> --
> http://www.yet-to.be
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: Apt-get error on Dapper
> From:
> Russell Cook <bike_oz at yahoo.com.au>
> Date:
> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:51:05 +1000
> To:
> Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> To:
> Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 16:42 +1000, Adam Conrad wrote:
>> Russell Cook wrote:
>> >
>> > Setting up initramfs-tools (0.40ubuntu29) ...
>> > Cannot find /lib/modules/2.6.12-9-amd64-k8
>> > dpkg: error processing initramfs-tools (--configure):
>> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>
>> Does /boot/initrd.img or /initrd.img point at a nonexistant file, by any
>> chance?
>>
>> ... Adam
>>
> Yes thanks Adam the sym links were screwed up, as was a bunch of other
> things. I needed to do the dpkg fixes as well as the apt-get -f
> install a number of times each to get things sorted.
>
> I now have two ongoing problems. I can't boot i.e. it hangs on the
> 2.6.15-20 kernel both -386 and -k7 versions. I'm stuck on 2.6.15-11-386.
>
> Also I've had to removed all vga=791 lines from grub or I can't see
> the OS booting or get a TTY session outside X windows.
>
>
> Kind Regards Russell
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>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
> Re: Macros in OpenOffice 2
> From:
> Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au>
> Date:
> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:52:02 +1000
> To:
> Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> To:
> Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>
> On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 01:05 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
>>>> Viel Spaß!
>>>>
>> I'm butting in here to say the special characters showed up fine here
>> -- I'm using gmail. Whatever email program you are using may be set to
>> a different character set by default. I just looked at the headers of
>> his message, and his character set is charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>
> Selecting iso-8859-1 didn't help, but selecting UTF-8 did.
>
> Regards, K.
>
>
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