Debian Installation :: Distro Upgrade Error "Use Of Uninitialized Value In Concatenation (.) Or String"
Mar 10, 2011
M busy upgrading one of my clients old Debain etch boxes to Lenny but i keep on getting this error.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 22.
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: syntax error: unknown user `root' in statoverride file E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
The below program is giving unpredictable and wrong output when I compile with g++ under Ubuntu OS , tried with the complier avilable with Ubuntu 8.04 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
But it works fine when complied and ran Redhat g++ 3.4.6
I am new to perl and am having trouble adding some strings together.
My full code is below:
The problem is $NewCommandB is always split into two lines, where the second line contains the "/atlas2/<blah>/<etc>/..." string. Since I am generating a .sh file to execute a lot of similar commands I need the string to all be on one line. Any idea why I get this behaviour and any suggestion on how to tell perl to make $NewCommandB a one line string?
Btw for completeness finalFileList.txt contains just file names one line after another:
Inside a loop i'm populating a string variable. Because csh doesn't have very good support for arrays I thought of doing this. I want to add a new line character to the end of the concatenation each time the loop iterates. Then at the end print this variable out.
I tried " and some resources said it was just a "". Neither work. What am I doing wrong?
I have a clean install of Fedora 12 and trying to mount a second hard disk with data created under Fedora 8. Nautilus lists the hard disk and can see all the folders and files under Places > Computer. However, Nautilus only lists hte hard disk (/dev/sdc) but no partitions (e.g. sdc1, sdc2) under Filesystem. LVM shows Partition1, Partition2 and UnPartitioned space under /dev/sdc. LVM shows Partition2 as 'uninitialized Disk Entity /dev/sdc2'. If I try to 'Block Initialize' Partition2 (which is the largest listed partition), LVM warns all data in the partition will be erased. A partition with all the data is on the hard disk because Nautilus can see it but the partition is not listed under /dev/sdc so I can mount it.
After one year of squeeze use without problem (and without upgrade) on a laptop and I decided to upgrade everything today. During the upgrade, I was asked what partition grub should handle. There was 2 choices /dev/sda and /dev/sda1. I checked only the last one and this is I think the source of my problem.
Now restarting the system, grub fails and reports
Entering rescue mode... error: the symbol `grub_xputs` not found and leave a useless prompt grub rescue>
I don't have a rescue cd at hand right now. I have a usb key with some old version of eeebuntu (my laptop is not a eeepc) and surprisingly I can boot on it.
I tried to upgrade to v10.04 ("Lucid"). After nearly 15 hours of painfully slow downloading and installing, my computer froze, just as the upgrade was almost complete. Needless to say, my Linux kernel is now wasted. what is the best way to proceed? I would like to get theOS going again, without losing any of my data or files. I also have a Windoze partition on that HD, which needs to be preserved.
Now, every time I run update manager, it tells me to run a partial upgrade. I can close the window and proceed upgrading packages,but if I let it try the partial upgrade is starts a distribution upgrade !??! I am currently running 11.04.
How can I stop update manager from trying to update my distro version?
I was upgrading from lenny to squeeze. At the apt-get dist-upgrade step, at some point (after upgrading and configuring) it tried to create a new certificate for my mail server but creation of the certificate failed, dpkg reported an error and the whole process exited with error. So I rebooted the machine and issued again apt-get dist-upgrade but now the certificate was created successfully . After that it upgraded mysql-client and the process finished.
But I don't know if configuring of the upgraded packages has stopped at the point where dpkg stopped. I suppose so, because very few packages were configured at that point. Is the solution to run dpkg-reconfingure -a (or -u ?) or dpkg --confingure -a or something else ? (dpkg has the PACKAGE STATES)
dpkg --configure --pending gives me no package for configuration.PS: At least I hope that all packages were upgraded and a few were not configured. Is there a way to confirm that all packages were upgraded ?
Suffice to say I had a dual boot at work with an essential windows 7 and non-essential linux install on it, and randomly upgrading the distro made windows7 unbootable. Cue a missed days work, much embarrassment and ear bashing from those who are convinced Linux is written entirely by communists and hippies. In the end I had to re-install windows, which cut off the ability to boot to ubuntu - although I've left the existing ubuntu partitions as they were.
Although I can get away with allocating a few partitions to ubuntu, I can't really justify fiddling with the MBR based upon this experience. I need a fast boot and persistent data for doing anything further with ubuntu at work, so I'm wondering whether a safer bet would be to setup a usb stick with enough grub to boot to the existing ubuntu install? Not a full usb distribution, just enough to boot into the existing install? how this would be doneIs it really just a grub-install /dev/sdXX (where XX is the usb)?
I want to upgrade from another distro to ubuntu server for a few reasons. The only problem is I have a lot of data that needs to survive. here is how my computer is setup. I've 5 drives on the computer,
A- 10gb drive for OS and swap only, no data
B,C,D,E - 4x 500 GB drives in a LVM. they make up one large drive with xfs and this volume has about 1.2 TB of data. there is nothing fancy on it, no encryption and no software raid of course the little 10gb drive can be formatted no problem, but the LVM needs to be migrated over intact.
OK, I've tried to install:Mint 6, 7 XFCE, and 8jolicloudeasypeasyand probably another or two..Oh, I'm installing this on my Acer Aspire One 751h, so I am using a USB key and UltraISO, with the exception of jolicloud, which has its own USB creator, and most recently I tried Mint 6 using UNetBootIn.Anyway, I keep getting the same general error, but with different files... Sometimes its errno5: input/output error, and other times its parts of a file (blah/doowop/dadada/video....) I don't know if its a driver problem or what, but I've seen video, sound, and other random stuff.. each time it gives a different one though.Either way, the main paragraph in the window talks about having a dirty CD, needing to replace my hard drive, or burning a new CD at a slower speed... I've checked the md5sum, and that's not the problem.
I'm wondering if my problem is that I'm creating the USB from one computer, and then trying to install it on the 751h. Another thing that might be causing the problem, but I doubt, is the fact that when I set up the partition, I select "use entire disk". Another question, Does it make a difference if the drive letter changes? On our main computer, the USB is mapped to drive E:, but on the 751h, it shows up as D:. If I have to change it on the 751h, how can I without an OS? when trying to install linux, it wiped out my windows, and I don't feel like re-installing it just to change it in a few minutes.
Iḿ trying to install TCL 8.0.5 onto my machine, if i type �wish it tells me there are already these programs:
Code: The program 'wish' can be found in the following packages: * tk * tk8.4 * tk8.5 * tk8.3 Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package> The error trace is here:
Code: luke@luke-laptop:~/Downloads/tcl8.0.5/unix$ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether cross-compiling... no checking for getcwd... yes checking for opendir... yes code....
checking system version (for dynamic loading)... ./configure: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string Really not sure whats wrong, I�m horrible with linux if I�m honest, tried a couple of google searches but didn�t make very much progress.
i dont know if this is the right section for this but i installed linux after i installed windows server 2003 and some how the grub loader got messed up and wouldnt show, only windows would boot. i fixed the grub loader through my live disc and when i select Other operating systems i get Error 11: Unrecognized device string. here is my fdisk -l.
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x2c8e2c8d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 7 34329 275699497+ 7 HPFS/NTFS [Code].....
i dont know if this is the right section for this but i installed linux after i installed windows server 2003 and some how the grub loader got messed up and wouldnt show, only windows would boot. i fixed the grub loader through my live disc and when i select Other operating systems i get Error 11: Unrecognized device string. here is my fdisk -l.
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x2c8e2c8d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 7 34329 275699497+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 34330 38227 31310685 83 Linux /dev/sda4 38228 38913 5510295 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x99b707d2
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 38912 312560608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdc: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000080
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 6 48163+ de Dell Utility /dev/sdc2 7 38227 307010182+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdc3 38228 38913 5510295 db CP/M / CTOS / ...
I keep getting the following msg as I try to upgrade from 10.04 -> 10.10 ... "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report." I don't think any of the issues above apply - can anyone offer advice on how to get around or "force " the upgrade
doing an upgrade from 10.4 to 10.4 LTS and got this error:
Could Not Calculate Upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:The package 'skype' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.
This can be caused by: * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
Actually there are three c programs double,half and square which respectively double halfs and square an integer , i have place .out file in sbin folder ,now they are processes now i have to concatenate these three processes like double half it return 8 how i will write the codes for it.
I'm currently teaching myself perl. I'm trying to write a program that unscrambles words by comparing each element in the array. There is an input file where you type the words to be unscrambled and there is a word list file containing approximately 1300 words. After everything has been processed the program is supposed to paste those words to an output file.
Code: #!/usr/local/bin/perl #use strict; #always add this in the beginning of code. #use warnings; #always add this in the beginning of code. #open(INFILE, '<', 'sample.txt'); # For reading #open(INFILE, '>', 'sample.txt'); # For writing #open(INFILE, '>>', 'sample.txt'); # To append .....
I dont know how to put this that somobody would understand my problem but here we go. I have problem like said in title.I am unable to upgrade my kernel. Sunaptics says that I have 2.6.35-28 installed. I tried to reinstall 2.6.35-28 via synaptics but it gives me error.
Thats what uname -a says:
pekka@pekka-laptop:~$ uname -a Linux pekka-laptop 2.6.35-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 21 17:40:48 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
Tried to install 2.6.35-27 via terminal thats what I get:
Code: pekka@pekka-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.35-27 [sudo] password for pekka: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree code....
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic (--remove): subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: linux-image-2.6.35-25-generic E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) pekka@pekka-laptop:
I want to strip the process name from the hosts - i did it with the code below.
I have two questions - is there a more compact way to strip off the process names? usalso i want to get rid of the errors after extracting the hostname. It is complaing about $arry[1]. using my $arry[1] is not allowed. Assigning the slice to a value, as is 'my $sliced_arry = $arry[1]; print $sliced_arry , does not work either.
Code:
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at newcomm_stats.pl3 line 7, <NEWCOMM> line 16 here i get what i want - just the host name, but still get those nasty errors. assigning a value to $1 does not work, and localizing $1 with 'my' is not allowed.
Last weekend, i upgraded debian from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2, i notice that apt was upgraded, but the gpg keys remained unchanged.However, after i upgrade, when i do "aptitude update" i get errors such as
[... usual hit and other stuff ...] W: GPG error: http://mirror.nus.edu.sg squeeze Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG AED4B06F473041FA Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze) <ftpmaster@debian.org>
When I run ddclient with an existing ddclient.cache file I get errors saying "uninitialized value" and the remote IP address does not get updated. This pretty much renders ddclient useless. If I delete the cache file then things work fine and the IP address *does* get updated (if need be). I happen to be running version 3.7.3 of ddclient but I've tried this with ddclient 3.8.0 and the result is exactly the same except that the line number in the error changes to line 2030.
Here's the code at that line number :
Code: if ($config{$host}{'login'} eq '') { warning("null login name specified for host %s.", $host); I'm running ubuntu ( 9.04 I think ) and using zoneedit.com for dynamic dns. Here's a transcript showing the problem. root@ruby:/var/cache/ddclient# ddclient
I upgraded Netbook edition from Lucid to Maverick, and it's gone horribly wrong. It may be because I had set up the a Gnome session in Lucid so that I could add and remove applets to panel in while still having the netbook session layout.
After distro upgrade I ended up with a hybrid system with both the unity launcher AND the Lucid-style UNE launcher. Unity does not recognise any of my installed software, e.g open office or bibus in "Office". UNE launcher does. There is also no option of Gnome session at login, only Desktop and Netbook!
After upgrading to Lucid I get the following warnings which I did not have before:
Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct
These occur when I start emacs and xpdf. On searching I see people are adding font paths to their xorg.conf file but on looking at mine there is no longer a font section. Also I have few directories fonts/X11/usr/share/fonts/X11$ ls misc/util/. I'm assuming the above folders and xorg.conf file are correct.
/etc/gdm3/Xsession[3408]: ![1433316153,000,xklavier_evt_xkb.c:xkl_xkb_process_x_event/] #011ATTENTION! Currently cached group 0 is not equal to the current group from the event: 1
I upgraded to testing to 2-6-39-2-amd64 successfully (from 2-6-38...), but when I start to upgrade software packages, there is an error E: postgresql-common: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 I tried to pkill -9 postgresql-common and restart the package upgrade, but got the same error message. Here is the dpkg.log
