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I want to close and remove this account from this forum, how do I do this?

Regards,
Rob.

Well that was frustrating. Turned out that "hostname -f" which is used by the nslcd script to determine the host/fqdn name was returning the unqualified name. This was caused by the approach of putting the unqualified name as a hosts file entry against 127.0.1.1. I can't remember the expla...

Hi, This is driving me bonkers. I have two Debian systems successfully using an established LDAP+Kerberos installation through PAM/NSLCD to authenticate SSH users. I've just spun up two more Debian systems and tried repeating the installation steps. They are stumbling over the file for the krb5_ccna...

Okay, I think its a Beaglebone problem. I re-copied the image of Debian onto the microSD card, and started again. I reconfigured everything, and got it back on the network. I then, as before, did a apt-get upgrade. This time however I performed a reboot command, and the system never came back up aga...

Contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst below: #!/bin/sh -e . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_version 2.0 run_mandb () { db_get man-db/auto-update [ "$RET" = true ] || return 0 # start-stop-daemon isn't available when running from debootstrap. perl -e '@pwd = getpwnam("man&quo...

Hi, I did an install of sysv-rc-conf on my Debian system, and it got corrupted during the man-db update. Now, everytime I try to install anything, all I get is: Setting up man-db (2.6.2-1) ... dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script was killed by si...

Nevermind, found a way to repair this. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2078996

• Clear out all the package lists from /var/lib/apt/lists/
• apt-get clean

update and upgrade will work after that.

Regards,
Rob.

Hi, Debian 7.5 (2014-05-14 image for Beaglebone) After performing an online resize2fs to resize the disk space to use the full SD card the image was installed on, I rebooted and performed a sudo apt-get update. I get the following error: Reading package lists... Error! E: gzread: Read error (-3: <fd...