On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:34:58 +0000 (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote:
> unmount it. Or vice versa. I recommend that you shutdown and > reboot, DO NOT LOGIN TO GNOME, switch to a text console via > Ctrl+Alt+F1, login on the text console as root, and with luck, > that pesky udisks daemon will not be running. Then try your > upgrade. Hi Stephen, That would have been a good thing to try. I did manage to almost fix everything by doing the rest of the dist-upgrade online, rather than by the discs. So, things are working close to normal now. One issue I still have is with updates. Given that I have dial-up, I prefer to rely on the Debian discs rather than the online repositories; so, my sources.list is made up of mostly the discs, with security, nonfree and multimedia repositories. However, now whenever I run "apt-get update", the machine demands to rescan all eight dvds: Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-8 20110205-17:27' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter It never used to do this with Lenny. It's just annoying to have to pull out all eight dvds once again each time I wish to update the system (it's not as if the dvds will be any different at a later time, so I'm not sure what the rationale is for the rescans). Does anyone know how to fix this? -- 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/20110307002146.7501c...@yahoo.ca