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Re: Ubuntu Problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Mar 26 16:27:13 2009

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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:26:02 -0400
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>

(Original reporter dropped from CC)

This smelled to me like the known bug, "debathena-cluster install  
will try to install when there's not enough space, use up all the  
disk and fail un-gracefully, breaking arbitrary things".

-Bill



On Mar 26, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Tim Abbott wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Antony H. Nguyen wrote:
>
>> Actually, we got it fixed. We installed the login flavor of  
>> Debathena, but the
>> only difference was that we opted to not install the extra  
>> software packages
>> (which were causing the problems we encountered earlier).
>
> Interesting.  I don't know what in -extra-software would be  
> responsible...
>
>> Though, my Linux Mint is still Debathena-less. I could be at SIPB  
>> on Saturday
>> afternoon, if you don't mind helping me try to set up Debathena  
>> successfully.
>> Thanks.
>
> Sure.  I'll be at SIPB at least from 1PM-6PM.
>
> 	-Tim Abbott


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