an error in installing setiathome and ksetisaver

Luis M lemsx1 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 19:10:10 UTC 2006


setiathome was completely replaced with BOINC.

I'm not sure if this breakage is related to that, but this package
should be removed from Ubuntu.

cheers,

On 2/21/06, Cybe R. Wizard <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> Here's synaptic's message:
>
> Setting up setiathome (3.08-4) ...
> setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar not found in /tmp.
> --12:08:19--
> ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
> => `/tmp/fileewCOZC' Resolving alien.ssl.berkeley.edu... Connecting to
> alien.ssl.berkeley.edu|128.32.18.176|:21... failed: Invalid argument.
> dpkg: error processing setiathome (--configure): subprocess
> post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency
> problems prevent configuration of ksetisaver: ksetisaver depends on
> setiathome (>= 3.0-1); however: Package setiathome is not configured
> yet. dpkg: error processing ksetisaver (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Setting up ksensors (0.7.3-9) ...
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  setiathome
>  ksetisaver
>
> Doing <sudo dpkg --configure setiathome> reveals that:
>
> Setting up setiathome (3.08-4) ...
> setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar not found in /tmp.
> --12:28:48--
> ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
> => `/tmp/fileEAOeQi' Resolving alien.ssl.berkeley.edu... failed: Name
> or service not known. dpkg: error processing setiathome (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  setiathome
>
> Doing <ping 128.32.18.176> finds the server, and the site,
> ssl.berkeley.edu is there, but no alien.ssl.berkeley.edu
>
> It seems that the setup needs
> setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
> from ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/
> dropped into  /temp/fileEAOeQi  so I
> <wget (sorry about this wrap)
> ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar>
> and get this:
> --12:39:29--
> ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar
> => `setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar' Resolving
> alien.ssl.berkeley.edu... 128.32.18.176 Connecting to
> alien.ssl.berkeley.edu|128.32.18.176|:21... failed: Connection timed
> out. Retrying.
>
> and that just repeats over and over.
>
> Is this a temporary outage thing or possibly a bug?
>
> Cybe R. Wizard
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