Hello, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Geronimo: > > the last update of debian broke my system completely! > > I am very sorry for your wasted time and loss of data. I see why you > need to let off steam.
Thank you very much! - usually I'm not that coarse. > Nevertheless I think this threads leads nowhere unless you are more specific > about the hardware in use and what kind of upgrade you actually ran. Instead > of insulting Debian developers you could try to help them get the problem > fixed (or make them aware in the first place). With my last post I wrote about my specific hardware. If you tell me, what I could do to improve system and how I could do - of cause I'm willing to do any tests, that help improve system! > > ... and now a system breaks on the fact of having an external SATA- > > controller?!? Is that really so exotic, that no one tests that, before > > moving packages into stable? > > If you are under the impression that every package needs to pass > coordinated QA testing before it enters stable, then you are wrong. I followed quite a time several debian MLs and yes, my opinion from reading the discussion between developers was, that debian has a coordinated QA testing. > If nobody tested your setup using testing or sid, then you are basically > out of luck. I had the same issue when squeeze was testing and I reported it to this ML. But most comments leaded to my own problem. No one was willing to accept, that there's a big issue with grub. Even now - I don't have the impression, that anybody accepts, that my situation is a grub issue. > > ... and the installer? Crashes on installing, when /usr and /var are > > different partitions which should not be formatted. Huh??? > > This looks like a separate issue which you might want to report against > debian-installer. BTW, using unformatted /var and/or /usr for a fresh > installation looks like a bad idea to me. So, may be you can guide me to a better use case, when the system is broken and the machine does not work any more. I'm not a system specialist - just a user, so I do what I know or what I can google about. Any advice on how to do it better is welcome. kind regards Gero -- 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/201103211853.39001.geronimo...@arcor.de