Thanks to everyone who responded to this one. I've reinstalled the os and its all working right now. I'm 95% certain the problem was something in the /var tree. Either I lost some files or directory perms got mixed up. I had other problems with programs that used the /var/cache/... directory. I was going to do a chmod -R 777 on /var before I rebuilt out of curiosity, but I went and forgot. -jh "Kevin R. Bullock" wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, John Hawley wrote: > > > As I mentioned in the original post that I did do an 'apt-get update'. > > Within the space of an hour (read your msg, Ben), I did the update and the > > install on two similiar machines and one worked and the other didn't. Oh, > > well, looks like I majorly fudged one system. > > This one probably isn't your fault. A few 404 errors from apt-get *does*not* > mean that the system is corrupted. It simply means that the package that apt > requested isn't on the mirror you're using. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org