[1902] in athena10
Re: Ubuntu Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Smith)
Thu Mar 26 16:43:46 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:42:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Quentin Smith <quentin@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, Greg Price <price@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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I think it's more likely that debathena-extra-software pulls in software
that isn't appropriate for Linux Mint.
--Quentin
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, William Cattey wrote:
> (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
>
