[GLLUG] apt died... and I killed it.

[Dan Ryan]

It's definitely not kernel panicking.  I can boot up and log in and  
even ssh into it from work (where I am right now), I just can't use  
apt or aptitude because the dependencies are all messed up.   
Everything else is completely functional.  Weird.

Dan Ryan


On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Thomas Hruska wrote:

> Sean O'Malley wrote:
>> could be bad ram? that might also be a dual proc if it is a tower  
>> and that
>> could be confusing it.
>
> Usually Linux will refuse to boot (kernel panic all over the place)  
> if there are hardware problems.  It isn't very tolerant of hardware  
> failures.  And the latest kernels pick up and enable SMP  
> automatically, IIRC...and a LOT of people would be running into  
> problems with apt-get if problems were SMP-related.
>
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