2002-May-10
If apt-get upgrade says "packages have been kept back", then try "apt-get -u dist-upgrade". ("-u" switch to show names of packages.) Did this to upgrade over 70 packages (125 MB) on antelope.
Left physical machine during update and couldn't login remotely. Had to call to have "sshd" ran. Killed the running apt-get and dpkg and restarted it remotely with "/usr/bin/dpkg --configure -a".
My RSA key for autologin stopped working. It said the from=hostname was "unknown key type" and didn't know key type for 1024. So I added the id_dsa.pub to it and it worked. Probably my client was using protocol 2. So I tried with Protocol 1, and sshd said "non ssh1 key syntax", but it worked. New OpenSSH uses one file for RSA and DSA, but I wonder how it knows difference -- since format is different?
Because perl install problem from two days ago, lyx never reinstalled. 27 minutes later it was installed.
I noticed that now abiword says "Abiword was not able to add its fonts to the X font path." and I need to to it manually and look the FAQ. But the FAQ indicates this problem occurs when using a dedicated font server. I don't use any font server. I wonder if this is related to the gv and gviw font messages I've been seeing the past couple days.
I typed "xset fp" and then I didn't get those font problems anymore. Maybe that reset it?
Installed lynx from pkgsrc -- it took over five minutes.