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JumpyLINUX - 28.08.2006, 17:14 Uhr
Titel: Adept Updater stops to "Preparing 0%"...

I have clean install of Kanotix, but still Adept Updater stops to "Preparing 0%". It seems to dowload the files correctly but seems like the installation crashes. Any ideas what I should do? Was this even the right program to update my Kanotix? Can I try a console command that does the same thing (I'm not quite familiar with this sudo stuff yeat, so some help on this is necessary as well Verlegen

ockham23 - 28.08.2006, 17:26 Uhr
Titel: RE: Adept Updater stops to "Preparing 0%"...

The developers recommend to use

Code:

su

apt-get update

apt-get install [program]

If you want to upgrade the entire system, be sure to follow the procedure described in the FAQ. You cannot dist-upgrade from within KDE.

JumpyLINUX - 28.08.2006, 17:42 Uhr
Titel: I tried searching the FAQ ...

I tried searching the FAQ and found this:
http://kanotix.com/FAQ-id_cat-78.html

Upgrade of the installed system

If the whole system is to be upgraded this is achieved through "dist-upgrade".
By finding out what packages are to be upgraded, the procedure can be determined:

If there are no X or no KDE programs concerned by the dist-upgrade, then you can upgrade under the graphical user interface i.e. KDE, Gnome or whatever you use.Programs currently running that are to be upgraded should be shut down.

Otherwise the GUI has to be left and the upgrade has to be done on a textconsole (in this case you can first download the packages and after that finish the dist-upgrade in the textconsole.)

(Only) download:

# apt-get dist-upgrade -d

Download and install:

# apt-get dist-upgrade

...but it didn't tell how to close the GUI and get back to the GUI.[/url]

devil - 28.08.2006, 17:47 Uhr
Titel: I tried searching the FAQ ...

ctrl - alt - F1 takes you to the textconsole, logon as root , enter init 3, then go on as written above.

greetz
devil

JumpyLINUX - 28.08.2006, 18:56 Uhr
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For "init 3" I get the error:
stopping x display manager: xdm not running (/var/run/xdm.pid not found)

And for "apt-get dist-upgrade" I get alot of text, for example:
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.bat is locked by another process

ockham23 - 28.08.2006, 19:19 Uhr
Titel:

This is an - almost - fool proof way to do it: While still in KDE, open Konsole and enter

Code:

su

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade -d

This will download the updated files (~500MB), but not install them, so you can still use your computer to surf the web while downloading. Once the download is done, restart the computer and at the grub boot screen add "init 3" to the boot options. This will get you to a command line prompt. Log in as root and start the dist-upgrade:

Code:

apt-get dist-upgrade

When the dist-upgrade is done, reboot the computer:

Code:

reboot

If all went well, the KDE login screen will appear so you can continue from there.

There's an even better way to do it: h2's update script.

piper - 28.08.2006, 19:19 Uhr
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JumpyLINUX hat folgendes geschrieben::

For "init 3" I get the error:
stopping x display manager: xdm not running (/var/run/xdm.pid not found)

On this, just press enter

JumpyLINUX hat folgendes geschrieben::

And for "apt-get dist-upgrade" I get alot of text, for example:
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.bat is locked by another process

It seems that you have another debconf instance running somewhere. Only a running process can keep this locked,find it using htop and kill it and you should be ok.

JumpyLINUX - 28.08.2006, 20:14 Uhr
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OK. I had to run "apt-get dist-upgrade" three times to get uptodate. But it's updated now. Only it messed up my fonts - they are huge. I changed the font sizes to 6 from "Control Center" -> "Appearance & Themes" -> "Fonts" but even still some windows have big fonts (like Adept Manager for instance). Also the login screen remained huge. I totally hopeless now Traurig

What can I do?

piper - 28.08.2006, 20:47 Uhr
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I wouldn't use Adept Manager, very buggy, apt-get is the prefered way to install packages in Kanotix. Use h2's script (see my sig) to do dist-upgrades.

As for your login screen fonts being huge try control center > sys admin > login as root > login manager > fonts and change the size and restart x

You might want to run

dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config -->--> choose *native *automatic *no