On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 01:15:48PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. > an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the > rest of the line unchanged as /bkups ext3 rw,user,noauto 0 2 > > Next I rebooted the system, mounted /bkups (no problem) and entered the > command df -h. The ususal list of partitions were listed and /bkups > still appeared as the mount point for /dev/sda1. > > I take it that everything is working ok and if I were to reconnect the > sata drives in a different order the designation /dev/sda1 might change > to something else but mounting /bkups would always access the same > partition? > > I raise this question because I am having trouble installing linux-base > and linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64. The installation of linux-base asked to > change fstab entries to UUID identifiers and I told it to do so. Later > in the process the installion failed with the message: > > > Writing extended state information... > Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... > Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector > size. > dosfslabel failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1059, > <STDIN> line 10. > dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: > linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 depends on linux-base (>= 2.6.32-15); however: > Package linux-base is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > linux-base > linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 > > and, as the installation failed, fstab was unchanged. Since the > dosfslabel failed I thought to change the fstab file to use UUID's > before trying to reinstall linux-base. > > Note: I have run dosfsck on the one vfat partition and fskck on the ext3 > partitions and the checks found no errors on any of the partitions. > > I would appreciate any comments or suggestions regarding this problem
I deleted the vfat partition and created a new ext2 partition in its place. Ran e2fsck on all of my partitions. The result was clean in every case. Tried to install linux-base and the installation failed with the same dosfslabel message. Filed bug report. My problems actually started a couple of days ago when I ran a dist-upgrade. In addition to the failure to install linux-base something in the upgrade locked the resolution of X windows at 640x480. The internet became almost unuseable as only a fraction of the window fit in the display. Some months ago we were told xorg.conf was no longer needed. Fortunately I had saved a copy so I put an old version of xorg.conf in /etc/X11. Result: display is back to high resolution, better in fact than it was without xorg.conf before the dist-upgrade forced the display resolution to 640x480. Conclusion: stick with linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 until problems goes away. > > Tom > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100618171548.ga2...@tomgeorge.info > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100619165722.ga3...@tomgeorge.info