Hi,

I ran following command and got an error.

$ apt-get install lighttpd
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
to correct the problem.

I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
off to restart it.

$ dpkg --configure -a

Setting up ndas-admin (1.0.3-101) ...
System startup links for /etc/init.d/ndas already exist.
Starting NDAS: modules inserted. start: error occurred
failed to start ndas service
Report this problem with the following messages at
http://code.ximeta.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/newticket
================================================== ============================
Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12)
(waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian
4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4159 2006-10-01 17:21
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1-686/kernel/drivers/block/ndas/CREDITS.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33199 2006-10-01 17:21
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1-686/kernel/drivers/block/ndas/ndas_block.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187786 2006-10-01 17:21
/lib/modules/2.6.18-1-686/kernel/drivers/block/ndas/ndas_core.ko

...............

What was going on?

Thanks.

Jim


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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ran following command and got an error.
>
> $ apt-get install lighttpd
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> to correct the problem.
>
> I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
> off to restart it.

because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.

now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know.

A

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On Thursday 03 April 2008 18:39, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I ran following command and got an error.
> >
> > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > to correct the problem.
> >
> > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
> > off to restart it.
>
> because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.
>
> now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know.
>
> A

The -a flags means that all packages not configured are (re)configured, not
all packages on the machine.
But no more than you about crashing the system.
Thierry


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Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> >
> > I ran following command and got an error.
> >
> > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > to correct the problem.
> >
> > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
>
> because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.
>
> now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know.

Ever tried it? I haven't. It may loop one by one through them all
nicely, or it may be feircely resource dependent, and he doesn't have
enough machine to keep up. Next throw away install I do, I'm going to
try it. Thanks.


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On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:27:59AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > >
> > > I ran following command and got an error.
> > >
> > > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > > to correct the problem.
> > >
> > > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> > > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
> >
> > because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.
> >
> > now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know.
>
> Ever tried it? I haven't. It may loop one by one through them all
> nicely, or it may be feircely resource dependent, and he doesn't have
> enough machine to keep up. Next throw away install I do, I'm going to
> try it. Thanks.

I've done it, no problem, on a low-resource system. It goes one-by-one
although I forget how it decides the order. It is no more
resource-dependent than any other shell script and doesn't do anything
more than would have been done during the package install. However,
perhaps it found a weakness in the system, in the same way that
compiling taxes a system in unusual ways. I'm thinking re drive system
or it found a kernel bug...

Doug.


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Thierry Chatelet <tchatelet@free.fr>:
> On Thursday 03 April 2008 18:39, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > >
> > > I ran following command and got an error.
> > >
> > > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > > to correct the problem.
> > >
> > > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> > > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
> >
> > because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.
>
> The -a flags means that all packages not configured are (re)configured, not
> all packages on the machine.

Drat. It's getting so you need to read the manpage before answering a
question. Thanks.


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On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 06:56:33PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Thursday 03 April 2008 18:39, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I ran following command and got an error.
> > >
> > > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> > > to correct the problem.
> > >
> > > I then ran the dpkg, and did not know why it went to call setting up
> > > my ndas driver and then freezed my system. I have to pull the power
> > > off to restart it.
> >
> > because the -a flag means "all", so every package gets reconfigured.
> >
> > now, as to why that might cause the system to crash, I don't know.
> >
> > A
>
> The -a flags means that all packages not configured are (re)configured, not
> all packages on the machine.

ah! you're right. I was confusing it with dpkg-reconfigure -a which
does everything. And no, it's not a resource problem, just takes a
while sometimes.

A

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