Re: [Denemo-devel] Building Denemo 0.8.10 from gub, afresh

[Richard Shann]

Thanks for the tips - it looks like I may be ok after all - I asked
synaptic if there were any upgrades since yesterday, and low and behold
there was a new kernel and libc, which I installed and the computer is
booting from the new kernel. They must have blundered with the version I
picked up.
Even better the gub build looks like it may go thru - it has got a long
way without falling over.

Richard



On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 15:09 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 09:20 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > 
> > > I would probably just install debian again. I use ubuntu and gub has
> > > never worked for me. It always fails at some point trying to meet
> > > the dependencies. Do you create a seperate /home partition? If so
> > > re-installation is easy with debian based systems.
> > 
> > I just took the defaults, which doesn't do a separate partition. But
> > it is quite small - it fits on a dvd, so I can just back up. It is
> > strange though, I am not getting problems generally - programs are
> > not crashing mysteriously or anything. But intensive work building
> > like gub, or, once just building denemo, throws up some un-repeatable
> > failure of gcc, or gas or ld or ...
> 
> Have you ever done a cpucheck. You could also have overheating issues.
> There are utilities that tax your cpu real hard to find out if there
> is any computation errors at heavy loads.  
> 
> > I don't know how to install debian again without downloading
> > everything again, which takes more than one night. 
> 
> I can't remember the name of the command but there but it lists all
> packages installed. I would use this if I wanted to reinstall a system
> and have all the same programs. All the current packages that are
> installed in your system are usually backed up on debian based systems
> in /var somewhere. In ubuntu it is in /var/cache/apt/archives/. If you
> add this to a dvd or hard drive based repository I think it will save
> you from downloading everything again because it is already sitting
> there.  
> 
> >Is there some
> > re-installation that would work from the already downloaded stuff?
> 
> I would try the method mentioned above if you don't want to worry about
> the downloading. I would do a cpu if not a ram check first. Then
> google the method mentioned above. I have seen it documented in
> various ways. I think it may be installing via bootable business card
> or something. 
> 
> Jeremiah 
> 
> 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
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