Art Alexion on 10 Oct 2006 13:20:21 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] After dist_upgrade, kubuntu system won't boot


Thanks for helping with this Sean.

On Monday 09 October 2006 15:29, sean finney wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 09:31 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > mkdir: Cannot create directory `/dev/shm/var.run': file exists
> > mkdir: Cannot create directory `/dev/shm/var.lock': file exists
> > rmdiir:  `/dev/shm/var.run': device or resource busy
> > rmdiir:  `/dev/shm/var.lock': device or resource busy
>
> wierd.  i can't find any reference to these files, anywhere, on my
> system.  sounds like some stuff left over from the previous release
> or something?  try
>
> grep -r 'var\.run' /etc 2>/dev/null > foofile
>
> and see what's in foofile, what package the file belongs to, what
> release the the package belongs to, etc.  

Zero byte empty file (though it seemed to take a lot of disc activity to 
create it. 


> in fact, you might want to try 
> out apt-show-versions (iirc), which with a little grepping can find any
> leftover packages, which you should probably purge.

Will deborphan do it?

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