Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
??? ?? wrote: Jason Self wrote: Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be getting a warning. The contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list: whatever you do, be sure to take an image of your HD using for example clonezilla, in case something goes terribly wrong... Little bit offtopic but, do You know how does it (clonezilla) work with RAID5? I tried Norton Ghost and it's very slow. spokz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be getting a warning. The contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ etch main deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non- free deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main Then, my upgrade attempt... r...@mail:/etc/apt# sudo aptitude update r...@mail:/etc/apt# sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libft-perl libsasl2 The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: debconf-utils libbind9-0 libc-client2002edebian libdns22 libisc11 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libjasper-1.701-1 liblwres9 libmagick9 libmail-imapclient-perl libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libparse-recdescent-perl libssp0 perl-doc python2.4 python2.4-minimal The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: bind9utils bsd-mailx cpp-4.3 db4.6-util djvulibre-desktop expect fontconfig gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base ghostscript gs-common gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libbind9-40 libc-client2007b libcairo2 libcap2 libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcrack2 libcroco3 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcwidget3 libdatrie0 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdns45 libept0 libfontenc1 libgnutls26 libgomp1 libgraphviz4 libgs8 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libilmbase6 libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 libjasper1 libkeyutils1 libldap-2.4-2 liblwres40 libmagick10 libmpfr1ldbl libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpaper- utils libpaper1 libpci3 libpixman-1-0 libpq5 librsvg2-2 libssh2-1 libsysfs2 libthai-data libthai0 libtommath0 libts-0.0-0 libwmf0.2-7 libxapian15 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc linux-libc-dev lynx-cur lzma netcat-traditional openssl-blacklist proftpd-basic proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-pgsql psfontmgr python2.5 python2.5-minimal tcl8.4 ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: cracklib2 libpci2 linux-kernel-headers lvm-common The following NEW packages will be installed: bind9utils bsd-mailx cpp-4.3 db4.6-util djvulibre-desktop expect fontconfig gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base ghostscript gs-common gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libbind9-40 libc-client2007b libcairo2 libcap2 libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcrack2 libcroco3 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcwidget3 libdatrie0 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdjvulibre21 libdns45 libept0 libfontenc1 libgnutls26 libgomp1 libgraphviz4 libgs8 libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libilmbase6 libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 libjasper1 libkeyutils1 libldap-2.4-2 liblwres40 libmagick10 libmpfr1ldbl libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpaper- utils libpaper1 libpci3 libpixman-1-0 libpq5 librsvg2-2 libssh2-1 libsysfs2 libthai-data libthai0 libtommath0 libts-0.0-0 libwmf0.2-7 libxapian15 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2 libxrender1 linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc linux-libc-dev lynx-cur lzma netcat-traditional openssl-blacklist proftpd-basic proftpd-mod-ldap proftpd-mod-mysql proftpd-mod-pgsql psfontmgr python2.5 python2.5-minimal tcl8.4 ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra x-ttcidfont-conf xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils The following packages will be REMOVED: cracklib2 libpci2 linux-kernel-headers lvm-common The following packages will be upgraded: adduser apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common apt apt-utils aptitude autotools-dev base-files base-passwd bash bind9 binutils bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox bzip2 ca-certificates clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam console-common console- data console-tools coreutils courier-authdaemon courier-authlib courier-authlib-userdb courier-base courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-pop courier-pop-ssl courier-ssl cpio cpp cpp-4.1 cracklib- runtime cron curl cyrus-admin-2.2 cyrus-sasl2-doc debconf debconf-i18n debianutils deborphan defoma
Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
Jason Self wrote: Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be getting a warning. The contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list: whatever you do, be sure to take an image of your HD using for example clonezilla, in case something goes terribly wrong... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
On 2009-08-29 19:47 +0200, Jason Self wrote: Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be getting a warning. [...] # sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are BROKEN: libft-perl libsasl2 These packages are not in Lenny, and apparently uninstallable there. And libsasl2 is claimed to be a dummy package in Etch anyway. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libsasl2: Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+etch1) but 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 is to be installed. libft-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.8.8 which is a virtual package. Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: libft-perl libsasl2 Install the following packages: libgpm2 [1.20.4-3.1 (stable)] Keep the following packages at their current version: bash [3.1dfsg-8 (now)] defoma [0.11.10-0.1 (now)] durep [0.8.1-7 (now)] libio-socket-ssl-perl [1.01-1 (now)] libuuid1 [1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 (now)] libxml-sax-perl [0.12-5 (now)] mysql-server-5.0 [5.0.32-7etch10 (now)] openssh-client [1:4.3p2-9etch3 (now)] openssh-server [1:4.3p2-9etch3 (now)] Leave the following dependencies unresolved: defoma recommends libft-perl Score is -713 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] I think you can go ahead. If everything goes fine, you may want to invest why some packages had been held back, and upgrade them individually. Another possibility is to press 'n' at the aptitude prompt and see what other solutions it offers. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
Okay; I've gone through the process and have since restarted. I
noticed that aptitude mentioned that 180 upgradeable packages were
available. It appears I've run out of space somewhere??? I'm not sure
which partition it's claiming to have out of space. Perhaps root?
The system in partitioned as:
/home (100.30 GB in size / 60.29 GB free)
/root (276 MB in size / 30.90 MB free)
/swap (2.96 GB)
/tmp (392 MB in size / 349.98 MB free)
/usr (4.77 GB in size / 3.38 GB free)
/var (2.86 GB in size / 2.13 GB free)
My upgrade attempt:
redwing...@mail:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Resolving dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
Resolving dependencies...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx{a} libfreezethaw-perl{a} libmldbm-perl{a} libnet-libidn-
perl{a}
libxml-parser-perl{a} libxml-sax-expat-perl{a}
linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc{a} lynx-cur{a} uuid-runtime{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
autotools-dev bsdmainutils busybox clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon
clamav-freshclam courier-base courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-
pop
courier-pop-ssl courier-ssl cpp cron cyrus-admin-2.2 deborphan defoma
denyhosts dialog dictionaries-common dselect durep ed eject fam ftp
gcc
gettext-base groff-base hdparm iamerican ibrazilian ibritish
ibulgarian
icatalan iczech idanish idutch iesperanto iestonian ifaroese ifinnish
ifinnish-large ifinnish-small ifrench ifupdown igalician-minimos
ihungarian iirish ilithuanian info ingerman inorwegian
installation-report iogerman ipolish iportuguese iptables iputils-
ping
irussian ispanish ispell iswiss itagalog iukrainian klogd laptop-
detect
less libasound2 libclamav6 libclass-accessor-perl libedit2 libfam0
libfile-find-rule-perl libfont-afm-perl libgmp3c2 libhtml-format-perl
libio-socket-ssl-perl liblockfile1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev
liblua5.1-curl-dev liblua5.1-curl0 liblua5.1-expat-dev liblua5.1-
expat0
liblua5.1-filesystem-dev liblua5.1-filesystem0 liblua5.1-socket-dev
liblua5.1-socket2 liblzo2-2 libmailtools-perl libnewt0.52
libnumber-compare-perl libpam-cracklib libss2 libtext-glob-perl
libtimedate-perl libtool libuuid1 libwrap0 libxml-sax-perl
linux-image-2.6-powerpc linux-image-powerpc logrotate lynx mac-fdisk
mailx make makedev man-db manpages mkvmlinuz nano ncftp netcat
openbsd-inetd openssh-client openssh-server patch pkg-config
popularity-contest portmap postfix postgresql-client-common
postgresql-common powerpc-ibm-utils powerpc-utils psmisc python-gdbm
python-support pyzor reseed rsync smartmontools ssl-cert sudo
sysklogd
sysv-rc tasksel tasksel-data tcpd telnet traceroute unzip update-
inetd
usbutils vim-common vim-tiny wamerican wamerican-huge wamerican-large
wamerican-small wbrazilian wbritish wbritish-huge wbritish-large
wbritish-small wbulgarian wcanadian wcanadian-huge wcanadian-large
wcanadian-small wcatalan wdanish wdutch wfaroese wfinnish wfrench
wgalician-minimos wget whiptail wnorwegian wogerman wpolish
wportuguese
wspanish wswiss wukrainian xml-core
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
libfribidi0 reportbug
180 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/135MB of archives. After unpacking 141MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 51872 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-image-2.6.26-2-powerpc (from .../linux-image-2.6.26-2-
powerpc_2.6.26-17lenny2_powerpc.deb) ...
Done.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.26-2-
powerpc_2.6.26-17lenny2_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during `./
lib/modules/2.6.26-2-powerpc/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/
b43legacy.ko': No space left on device
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Examining /etc/kernel/postrm.d .
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postrm.d/mkvmlinuz
Preparing to replace libss2 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1
(using .../libss2_1.41.3-1_powerpc.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libss2 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.26-2-
powerpc_2.6.26-17lenny2_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up libss2 (1.41.3-1) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Current status: 179 updates [-1].
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Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
Er; sorry. It should be: /home (100.30 GB in size / 60.29 GB free) / (276 MB in size / 30.90 MB free) /swap (2.96 GB) /tmp (392 MB in size / 349.98 MB free) /usr (4.77 GB in size / 3.38 GB free) /var (2.86 GB in size / 2.13 GB free) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
On 2009-08-29 20:42 +0200, Jason Self wrote: Er; sorry. It should be: /home (100.30 GB in size / 60.29 GB free) / (276 MB in size / 30.90 MB free) This is indeed not enough to unpack a linux-image package. Try removing all kernels but the current one. /swap (2.96 GB) /tmp (392 MB in size / 349.98 MB free) This is probably much more swap than you will ever need, so you may want to enlarge / and reduce swap space. Also, /tmp could be put on a tmpfs, if you have enough RAM. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt
On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: This is indeed not enough to unpack a linux-image package. Try removing all kernels but the current one. Thank you for the suggestion -- Removing old kernel images appears to have freed up enough space that the upgrade was able to complete. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 21:26:31, Jimmy Johnson wrote: You can use one of the many Live CD's and delete you system files before the install and then install without formating, it works a charm. :) Compared to: # sed -i -e 's/etch/lenny/' /etc/apt/sources.list # aptitude update # aptitude install aptitude # aptitude full-upgrade This sounds pretty hackish... Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed Here are the errors I notice during startup... 1: udev_rules_init could not read /etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules 2: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev: line 292 udevtrigger: commnad not found 3: Then for about three minutes the system sits at this message: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... 4: Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist) I'm then able to log in at the text-only console, and my previously (as-in etch) installed files/directories are there, but I have no network connectivity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed Here are the errors I notice during startup... 1: udev_rules_init could not read /etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules 2: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev: line 292 udevtrigger: commnad not found 3: Then for about three minutes the system sits at this message: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... 4: Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist) I'm then able to log in at the text-only console, and my previously (as-in etch) installed files/directories are there, but I have no network connectivity. Well, I've resolved all but item #4 above by running the following command: aptitude -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confmiss -o DPkg::Options::=--force_confnew reinstall udev I still don't have GNOME up and running (apparently because of #4 above), but the other errors are cleaned up, so I'm gettin' there, but still lookin' fer help. Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed Here are the errors I notice during startup... 1: udev_rules_init could not read /etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules 2: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev: line 292 udevtrigger: commnad not found 3: Then for about three minutes the system sits at this message: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... 4: Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist) I'm then able to log in at the text-only console, and my previously (as-in etch) installed files/directories are there, but I have no network connectivity. I don't know about 1-3. Regarding 4, I've seen lenny fail to load the video modules. If you enter: aptitude search vesa do you get a line like: i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa - X.Org X server -- VESA display driver You probably won't see the 'i' at the beginning of the line, which indicates that the vesa module is installed. If you don't see that, you'll need to install xserver-xorg-video-vesa using aptitude/apt/your- favorite-package-manager. -- Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed Here are the errors I notice during startup... 1: udev_rules_init could not read /etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules 2: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev: line 292 udevtrigger: commnad not found 3: Then for about three minutes the system sits at this message: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... 4: Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist) I'm then able to log in at the text-only console, and my previously (as-in etch) installed files/directories are there, but I have no network connectivity. I don't know about 1-3. Regarding 4, I've seen lenny fail to load the video modules. If you enter: aptitude search vesa do you get a line like: i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa - X.Org X server -- VESA display driver You probably won't see the 'i' at the beginning of the line, which indicates that the vesa module is installed. If you don't see that, you'll need to install xserver-xorg-video-vesa using aptitude/apt/your- favorite-package-manager. Yep, you're right. I ran... apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa and I'm back to normal! Thanks much, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? --- Em seg, 29/6/09, Ed Sutter esut...@alcatel-lucent.com escreveu: De: Ed Sutter esut...@alcatel-lucent.com Assunto: Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem... Para: Rich Griffiths richg...@one.net Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Data: Segunda-feira, 29 de Junho de 2009, 16:24 Rich Griffiths wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed Here are the errors I notice during startup... 1: udev_rules_init could not read /etc/udev/rules.d/libmtp7.rules 2: /etc/rcS.d/S03udev: line 292 udevtrigger: commnad not found 3: Then for about three minutes the system sits at this message: Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... 4: Failed to load module vesa (module does not exist) I'm then able to log in at the text-only console, and my previously (as-in etch) installed files/directories are there, but I have no network connectivity. I don't know about 1-3. Regarding 4, I've seen lenny fail to load the video modules. If you enter: aptitude search vesa do you get a line like: i A xserver-xorg-video-vesa - X.Org X server -- VESA display driver You probably won't see the 'i' at the beginning of the line, which indicates that the vesa module is installed. If you don't see that, you'll need to install xserver-xorg-video-vesa using aptitude/apt/your- favorite-package-manager. Yep, you're right. I ran... apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa and I'm back to normal! Thanks much, Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Veja quais são os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:46:34PM -0700, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Are you asking why upgrade instead of doing a clean install? -- Daryl Styrk Naples FL, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. Usually the machine's configuration is not affected during the upgrade and usually upgrades go pretty smoothly. Usually one can upgrade them remotely, if one has a lot of machines that they control. This can save a ton of time. Sometimes there are some hiccups with upgrades, but my experience (going back to about 1997) is really good. This was a feature of Debian that was ahead of nearly all other Linux distributions for a long time. It was common for people using other distributions to put off upgrading simply because it was a reinstall (which wasn't as easy as it is now). Debian people would just laugh at that. I remember when Debian was a little more work to install than some other distributions and my colleagues at work kept wondering why I insisted on using Debian. I would always say because I only had to install Debian once and not every time a new version was released (although there where a lot of other reasons too). Installs now days are pretty easy, but it wasn't always that way. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. Usually the machine's configuration is not affected during the upgrade and usually upgrades go pretty smoothly. snip For a single user, I suggest that this is a BIG reason for upgrading etch instead of installing lenny from scratch, Adriano. You won't have to answer all those setup questions (keyboard type, locale, timezone, etc.). If you are using X and a desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc.), your email will still be set up, with all your mail and folders in place. Your bookmarks will still be installed and working. Basically, your home directory will have all the data and configuration files as you left them -- you won't have to reconfigure email, your browser, your word processor, etc. Sometimes problems do occur with an upgrade. But the upgrade is usually easier than a fresh install. Be sure to follow the recommendations on the Debian web site. In particular, update etch before upgrading to lenny, and back up your data and config files, just in case ;-) -- Rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. I'm sure that I'm not along when I say that sorting the little problems that may pop-up are fun too and a feeling of accomplishment after the problem is solved. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? You won't have to answer all those setup questions (keyboard type, locale, timezone, etc.). If you are using X and a desktop (Gnome, KDE, etc.), your email will still be set up, with all your mail and folders in place. Your bookmarks will still be installed and working. Basically, your home directory will have all the data and configuration files as you left them -- you won't have to reconfigure email, your browser, your word processor, etc. You can use one of the many Live CD's and delete you system files before the install and then install without formating, it works a charm. :) Mepis has this option as part of the installer, even if /home is not on a separate partition, works a treat. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:54:25 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] There should be some input devices opened by Xorg. Please run this command instead (as root with X started): lsof $(find /dev/input/) Thanks. Starting in normal multi-user mode, having removed gdm, logging in as a normal user, starting X (startx) with a .xinint consisting of chvt 1 and xterm, login in as root, run the above lsof gives: COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME hald-addo 3640 root4r CHR 13,69 5677 /dev/input/event5 hald-addo 3640 root5w CHR 13,68 5671 /dev/input/event4 hald-addo 3640 root6r CHR 13,67 5567 /dev/input/by-path/../event3 hald-addo 3640 root7r CHR 13,66 5589 /dev/input/by-id/../event2 It would be good if someone with a working Xorg keyboard on Lenny could tell us if it is normal that this command does not show any /dev/input/ files opened by Xorg. On Sid, even with Xorg now relying on HAL for the input devices, I still see /usr/bin/X11/X hanging on to both mouse and keyboard device nodes. Another thing to check is if certain processes are running: ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev' [ snip: all normal, except that dbus is not running ] Did you run this in single user mode, or did you deliberately kill dbus? Multi user mode. I think dbus is running? Isn't it the dbus-daemon? [...] 103 2832 1 0 08:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system I had overlooked that line in your previous listing. I have one more dbus-daemon process running, as well as a dbus-launch process associated with x-session-manager, but that might simply be a normal difference between Lenny and Sid. (Again, it might help if another Lenny user posts his/her output of the above command for comparison.) [...] Does the keyboard work in Xorg if you boot from a Debian Lenny live CD (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/)? Running debian 5.0.0 live amd64 gnome ISO image, all seems to be working just fine. OK, at least that means your problem is not intrinsic to your hardware and Lenny's version of Xorg, and we have narrowed it down to the configuration of your installation. (For an unfortunately still somewhat broad definition of to narrow down...) IIRC, you already mentioned that the problem stays the same if you start X as root, which makes it less likely that a configuration file in your normal user's $HOME is to blame. You could create a new user and test X again, just to be sure. To tackle a system-wide problem with Xorg: Do you remember anything unusual, any problems during the upgrade, any packages that had to be kept back? Do you recall anything in the history of the system that might be related to the present problem, e.g. installing ill-behaved non-Debian packages or messing around with udev rules? Furthermore, it might help to take a look at your complete xorg.conf (if it is very long then you can put it on http://debian.pastebin.com/ and post the link), as well as the output og this command: ldconfig -pNX | grep /local/ The brute-force approach to hard-to-pin-down, system-wide problems with X is to remove (with --purge) all xorg packages and reinstall them. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
ldconfig -pNX | grep /local/ Bingo! Our servers have XWin32 LIVE libraries installed (A X11 server for MS/Windows, but which installs some libraries on the Linux box). The install of XWin32 placed links in /usr/local/lib. I removed those links and X is now functioning Thanks for that pointer, and for persisting in helping to resolve this. It is much appreciated. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Received Tue 21 Apr 2009 7:57am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] There should be some input devices opened by Xorg. Please run this command instead (as root with X started): lsof $(find /dev/input/) Thanks. Starting in normal multi-user mode, having removed gdm, logging in as a normal user, starting X (startx) with a .xinint consisting of chvt 1 and xterm, login in as root, run the above lsof gives: COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME hald-addo 3640 root4r CHR 13,69 5677 /dev/input/event5 hald-addo 3640 root5w CHR 13,68 5671 /dev/input/event4 hald-addo 3640 root6r CHR 13,67 5567 /dev/input/by-path/../event3 hald-addo 3640 root7r CHR 13,66 5589 /dev/input/by-id/../event2 Another thing to check is if certain processes are running: ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev' [ snip: all normal, except that dbus is not running ] Did you run this in single user mode, or did you deliberately kill dbus? Multi user mode. I think dbus is running? Isn't it the dbus-daemon? root 1369 1 0 08:38 ?00:00:00 udevd --daemon 103 2832 1 0 08:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system 105 3619 1 0 08:39 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald root 3620 3619 0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-runner root 3640 3620 0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event2 105 3648 3620 0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 3651 3620 0 08:39 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (every 2 sec) root 3745 3608 0 08:39 ?00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth1.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid -q -e dhc_dbus=31 -d eth1 anet 4419 4402 0 08:44 tty3 00:00:00 xinit /home/anet/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.LvCwEgYUrc root 4420 4419 0 08:44 tty7 00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp root 4488 4446 0 08:47 tty1 00:00:00 grep -E X|hal|dbus|udev [...] Yes - now in user land. Does now encompass all the output that you posted in your last message? Yes. Does the keyboard work in Xorg if you boot from a Debian Lenny live CD (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/)? Running debian 5.0.0 live amd64 gnome ISO image, all seems to be working just fine. Thanks again for your help Florian. It is particularly useful, though we haven't solved it yet. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 13:49:53 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: [...] udev 0.125-7 You should upgrade udev to version 0.125-7+lenny1 (security.debian.org). xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-10 Rmadison tells me that the current version of this package for Lenny is 2:1.4.2-10.lenny1. I would try to upgrade to that. Other than those two packages, I did not see anything unusual your list. I have upgrade both. No change in the X/kbd behaviour Another thing to check is which processes are using files in /dev/input/. Ideally, this check should be done after X has started. Using CTRL-ALT-Fn does not work for you, but you could use a simple ~/.xinitrc that runs sudo chvt 1 in an xterm, which would return you to the text terminal. (You have to configure your system to allow your user to run sudo with this command without password.) Then I would like to the output of: lsof /dev/input/* I am getting: COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME hald-addo 4357 root4r CHR 13,69 5819 /dev/input/event5 hald-addo 4357 root5w CHR 13,68 5772 /dev/input/event4 hald-addo 4357 root6r CHR 13,67 5654 /dev/input/event3 hald-addo 4357 root7r CHR 13,66 5620 /dev/input/event2 There should be some input devices opened by Xorg. Please run this command instead (as root with X started): lsof $(find /dev/input/) Another thing to check is if certain processes are running: ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev' [ snip: all normal, except that dbus is not running ] Did you run this in single user mode, or did you deliberately kill dbus? Note that I am booting single user mode to do this, so it is logging in as root and running startx as root. I modified the .xinitrc to chvt 1 and to then xterm. I ran lsof on the console. I think it would be better to do further tests in the normal runlevel. I would temporarily uninstall or at least disable [xkg]dm to allow you to log in at the normal tty prompt. Yes - now in user land. Does now encompass all the output that you posted in your last message? Does the keyboard work in Xorg if you boot from a Debian Lenny live CD (http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/)? -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Thanks again Florian.
Received Sat 18 Apr 2009 3:34am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Have just upgraded
[...]
From etch to lenny, as per Subject.
[...]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43GL
[Quadro FX 550] [10de:014d] (rev a2)
[...]
dpkg -l udev {,lib}hal\* {,lib}dbus\* xserver-xorg\* libx11\* xkb\* | awk
'/ii/{print$2,$3}'
[ output edited ]
udev 0.125-7
You should upgrade udev to version 0.125-7+lenny1 (security.debian.org).
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-10
Rmadison tells me that the current version of this package for Lenny is
2:1.4.2-10.lenny1. I would try to upgrade to that.
Other than those two packages, I did not see anything unusual your list.
I have upgrade both. No change in the X/kbd behaviour
Another thing to check is which processes are using files in
/dev/input/. Ideally, this check should be done after X has started.
Using CTRL-ALT-Fn does not work for you, but you could use a simple
~/.xinitrc that runs sudo chvt 1 in an xterm, which would return you
to the text terminal. (You have to configure your system to allow your
user to run sudo with this command without password.) Then I would like
to the output of:
lsof /dev/input/*
I am getting:
COMMANDPID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
hald-addo 4357 root4r CHR 13,69 5819 /dev/input/event5
hald-addo 4357 root5w CHR 13,68 5772 /dev/input/event4
hald-addo 4357 root6r CHR 13,67 5654 /dev/input/event3
hald-addo 4357 root7r CHR 13,66 5620 /dev/input/event2
Another thing to check is if certain processes are running:
ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev'
root 1370 1 0 13:38 ?00:00:00 udevd --daemon
103 2862 1 0 13:38 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
root 3775 3638 0 13:39 ?00:00:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -lf
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth1.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient.eth1.pid -q -e
dhc_dbus=31 -d eth1
105 4336 1 0 13:44 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root 4337 4336 0 13:44 ?00:00:00 hald-runner
root 4357 4337 0 13:44 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on
/dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event2
105 4362 4337 0 13:44 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on
acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
root 4368 4337 0 13:44 ?00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling
/dev/hda (every 2 sec)
anet 4421 4404 0 13:44 tty2 00:00:00 xinit /home/anet/.xinitrc --
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth /tmp/serverauth.sVdbIjaCrQ
root 4422 4421 0 13:44 tty7 00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp
root 4439 3960 0 13:45 tty1 00:00:00 grep -E X|hal|dbus|udev
Note that I am booting single user mode to do this, so it is logging
in as root and running startx as root. I modified the .xinitrc to chvt
1 and to then xterm. I ran lsof on the console.
I think it would be better to do further tests in the normal runlevel.
I would temporarily uninstall or at least disable [xkg]dm to allow you
to log in at the normal tty prompt.
Yes - now in user land.
I've been playing with xev, looks like it is getting KeyRelease events
but not the KeyPress events for the keys that actually result in the
screen resolution being reset. Without knowing how hal and the kbd
device works, it is almost as if X is capturing these KeyPress events
and not passing them on, instead treating them as a screen resolution
change shortcut.
I think the capturing would be normal for real resolution-change key
combinations, but we have to figure out why your system misidentifies
other key press events as this combination.
Regards,
Graham
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Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 14:46:58 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Have just upgraded
To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid?
From etch to lenny, as per Subject.
[...]
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43GL
[Quadro FX 550] [10de:014d] (rev a2)
[...]
Hmm, no real clues so far. I would like to see the status of certain
packages on your system. Please post the output of:
dpkg -l udev {,lib}hal\* {,lib}dbus\* xserver-xorg\* libx11\* xkb\* | awk
'/ii/{print$2,$3}'
[ output edited ]
udev 0.125-7
You should upgrade udev to version 0.125-7+lenny1 (security.debian.org).
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-10
Rmadison tells me that the current version of this package for Lenny is
2:1.4.2-10.lenny1. I would try to upgrade to that.
Other than those two packages, I did not see anything unusual your list.
Another thing to check is which processes are using files in
/dev/input/. Ideally, this check should be done after X has started.
Using CTRL-ALT-Fn does not work for you, but you could use a simple
~/.xinitrc that runs sudo chvt 1 in an xterm, which would return you
to the text terminal. (You have to configure your system to allow your
user to run sudo with this command without password.) Then I would like
to the output of:
lsof /dev/input/*
(You have to run this command as root.)
Nothing is listed.
I think there should be some output. (However, I run Sid and Xorg's
default handling of input devices changed recently, therefore I am not
entirely sure how this is supposed to be on Lenny.) In any case, I think
it is better to do the test like this:
lsof $(find /dev/input/)
Another thing to check is if certain processes are running:
ps -ef | grep -E 'X|hal|dbus|udev'
Note that I am booting single user mode to do this, so it is logging
in as root and running startx as root. I modified the .xinitrc to chvt
1 and to then xterm. I ran lsof on the console.
I think it would be better to do further tests in the normal runlevel.
I would temporarily uninstall or at least disable [xkg]dm to allow you
to log in at the normal tty prompt.
I've been playing with xev, looks like it is getting KeyRelease events
but not the KeyPress events for the keys that actually result in the
screen resolution being reset. Without knowing how hal and the kbd
device works, it is almost as if X is capturing these KeyPress events
and not passing them on, instead treating them as a screen resolution
change shortcut.
I think the capturing would be normal for real resolution-change key
combinations, but we have to figure out why your system misidentifies
other key press events as this combination.
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Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Received Wed 15 Apr 2009 5:32am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Have just upgraded
To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid?
From etch to lenny, as per Subject.
I tend to forget to check the subject again once I start to compose a
reply in vim.
a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision
690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip.
Which chipset is it? Post the output of
lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|graphic|display'
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro
FX 550] [10de:014d] (rev a2)
OK, that is nothing exotic and should work well with the nv driver.
All seemed to proceed well,
but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the
screen resolution changing - I can't login!
After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going
on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The
simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user
mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition
is also just fine.
Post the output of these three commands:
awk '/Section.*InputDevice/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section InputDevice
Identifier Generic Keyboard
Driver kbd
Option XkbRules xorg
Option XkbModel pc104
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection
That looks OK to me.
[ snip: only harmless warnings in Xorg.0.log as far as I can tell ]
grep -Ei 'keyboard' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(**) Option CoreKeyboard
(**) Generic Keyboard: always reports core events
(**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: xorg
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: pc104
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: us
(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Generic Keyboard)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (type:
KEYBOARD)
Hmm, no real clues so far. I would like to see the status of certain
packages on your system. Please post the output of:
dpkg -l udev {,lib}hal\* {,lib}dbus\* xserver-xorg\* libx11\* xkb\* | awk
'/ii/{print$2,$3}'
This produces:
dbus 1.2.1-5
dbus-x11 1.2.1-5
hal 0.5.11-8
hal-info 20080508+git20080601-1
libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5
libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1
libhal-storage1 0.5.11-8
libhal1 0.5.11-8
libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2
libx11-data 2:1.1.5-2
libx11-dev 2:1.1.5-2
udev 0.125-7
xkb-data 1.3-2
xserver-xorg 1:7.3+18
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-10
xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.3+18
xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.0.8-1
xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.3.1-1
xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.3.0-1
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics 0.14.7~git20070706-3
xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0.7.9.3-2
xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.3+18
xserver-xorg-video-apm 1:1.2.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-ark 1:0.7.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
xserver-xorg-video-chips 1:1.2.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus 1:1.2.1-1.lenny1
xserver-xorg-video-cyrix 1:1.1.0-8
xserver-xorg-video-dummy 1:0.3.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 1:0.4.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-glint 1:1.2.1-1
xserver-xorg-video-i128 1:1.3.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6
xserver-xorg-video-mach64 6.8.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-mga 1:1.4.9.dfsg-1
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic 1:1.2.1-1
xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.10-1
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome 1:0.2.902+svn579-4
xserver-xorg-video-r128 6.8.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd 1.2.1-2
xserver-xorg-video-rendition 1:4.2.0.dfsg.1-2
xserver-xorg-video-s3 1:0.6.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge 1:1.10.1-1
xserver-xorg-video-savage 1:2.2.1-2
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion 1:1.6.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-sis 1:0.10.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb 1:0.9.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-tdfx 1:1.4.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-tga 1:1.1.0-9
xserver-xorg-video-trident 1:1.3.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-tseng 1:1.2.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-v4l 0.2.0-1
xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:1.3.0-4
xserver-xorg-video-vga 1:4.1.0-8
xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.2-1
xserver-xorg-video-voodoo 1:1.2.0-1
Another thing to check is which processes are using files in
/dev/input/. Ideally, this check should be done after X has started.
Using CTRL-ALT-Fn does not work for you, but you could use a simple
~/.xinitrc that runs sudo chvt 1 in an xterm, which would return you
to the text terminal. (You have to configure your system to allow your
user to run sudo with this command without password.) Then I would like
to the output of:
lsof /dev/input/*
(You have to run this command as root.)
Nothing is listed.
Note that I am booting single user mode to do this, so
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:21:11 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
Have just upgraded
To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid?
From etch to lenny, as per Subject.
I tend to forget to check the subject again once I start to compose a
reply in vim.
a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision
690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip.
Which chipset is it? Post the output of
lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|graphic|display'
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro
FX 550] [10de:014d] (rev a2)
OK, that is nothing exotic and should work well with the nv driver.
All seemed to proceed well,
but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the
screen resolution changing - I can't login!
After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going
on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The
simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user
mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition
is also just fine.
Post the output of these three commands:
awk '/Section.*InputDevice/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section InputDevice
Identifier Generic Keyboard
Driver kbd
Option XkbRules xorg
Option XkbModel pc104
Option XkbLayout us
EndSection
That looks OK to me.
[ snip: only harmless warnings in Xorg.0.log as far as I can tell ]
grep -Ei 'keyboard' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(**) Option CoreKeyboard
(**) Generic Keyboard: always reports core events
(**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: xorg
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: pc104
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: us
(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Generic Keyboard)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (type: KEYBOARD)
Hmm, no real clues so far. I would like to see the status of certain
packages on your system. Please post the output of:
dpkg -l udev {,lib}hal\* {,lib}dbus\* xserver-xorg\* libx11\* xkb\* | awk
'/ii/{print$2,$3}'
Another thing to check is which processes are using files in
/dev/input/. Ideally, this check should be done after X has started.
Using CTRL-ALT-Fn does not work for you, but you could use a simple
~/.xinitrc that runs sudo chvt 1 in an xterm, which would return you
to the text terminal. (You have to configure your system to allow your
user to run sudo with this command without password.) Then I would like
to the output of:
lsof /dev/input/*
(You have to run this command as root.)
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Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer: Thanks for the suggestions Florian. More details below. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Have just upgraded To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? From etch to lenny, as per Subject. a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. Which chipset is it? Post the output of lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|graphic|display' 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro FX 550] [10de:014d] (rev a2) All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. Post the output of these three commands: awk '/Section.*InputDevice/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc104 Option XkbLayout us EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse EndSection grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist. (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist. (WW) The directory /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType does not exist. (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory) (WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc800,0x800) grep -Ei 'keyboard' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (**) |--Input Device Generic Keyboard (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (**) Option CoreKeyboard (**) Generic Keyboard: always reports core events (**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard (**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: xorg (**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: pc104 (**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: us (**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled (II) evaluating device (Generic Keyboard) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Keyboard (type: KEYBOARD) (You can do this in single user mode because the Xorg log from the previous start of X should still be present as long as GDM has not been restarted.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny: On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as nv (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to vga at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to vesa exhibits the same behaviour as nv - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the nv driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes for upgrading? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo things. Thanks Thorny. Yes I did follow the release notes in upgrading and have been trawling through the upgrade-lenny.script file and my wajig log for clues. Trying to purge various X and friends and reinstalling (and trying to stay with stable rather than testing or sid because this is a test upgrade for a bunch of servers deployed in production). no luck yet. Trying to stay with stable rather than... Were you trying to do a dist-upgrade with testing and unstable repositories in your sources list? You would probably be better advised to switch to codename, lenny in your sources list and/or not have testing or unstable available. Perhaps I misunderstood what you wrote but you may now have a mixed system which might not be trivial to recover from. Are you sure you followed the release notes correctly. There is no testing/unstable. Install done from DVD (5.0.0) whilst server was standalone. The only entries in sources.list are the 5 DVDs. I followed the release notes carefully, and used the script command to record the process. Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as nv (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to vga at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to vesa exhibits the same behaviour as nv - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the nv driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes for upgrading? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo things. Thanks Thorny. Yes I did follow the release notes in upgrading and have been trawling through the upgrade-lenny.script file and my wajig log for clues. Trying to purge various X and friends and reinstalling (and trying to stay with stable rather than testing or sid because this is a test upgrade for a bunch of servers deployed in production). no luck yet. Trying to stay with stable rather than... Were you trying to do a dist-upgrade with testing and unstable repositories in your sources list? You would probably be better advised to switch to codename, lenny in your sources list and/or not have testing or unstable available. Perhaps I misunderstood what you wrote but you may now have a mixed system which might not be trivial to recover from. Are you sure you followed the release notes correctly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as nv (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to vga at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to vesa exhibits the same behaviour as nv - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the nv driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
All I can recommend is to boot single user mode, sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade sudo dpkg --configure gdm perhaps even aptitude remove gdm and aptitude install gdm then reboot into multy user mode. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:10:41PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as nv (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to vga at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to vesa exhibits the same behaviour as nv - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the nv driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as nv (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to vga at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to vesa exhibits the same behaviour as nv - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the nv driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes for upgrading? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: Have just upgraded To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. Which chipset is it? Post the output of lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|graphic|display' All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. Post the output of these three commands: awk '/Section.*InputDevice/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log grep -Ei 'keyboard' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (You can do this in single user mode because the Xorg log from the previous start of X should still be present as long as GDM has not been restarted.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: etch to lenny upgrade - X apps no longer see keystrokes?
Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login! After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as nv (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to vga at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to vesa exhibits the same behaviour as nv - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the nv driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes for upgrading? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo things. Thanks Thorny. Yes I did follow the release notes in upgrading and have been trawling through the upgrade-lenny.script file and my wajig log for clues. Trying to purge various X and friends and reinstalling (and trying to stay with stable rather than testing or sid because this is a test upgrade for a bunch of servers deployed in production). no luck yet. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem
Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. Can't live with it, can't live without it. Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this system with sarge, and successfully upgraded to etch a couple of years ago and have kept etch upgraded. I've tried apt-get -f dist-upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade with same results. Specific next steps, please? Thanks! - John No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.3/1970 - Release Date: 02/24/09 13:35:00
Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. Can't live with it, can't live without it. Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this system with sarge, and successfully upgraded to etch a couple of years ago and have kept etch upgraded. I've tried apt-get -f dist-upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade with same results. Specific next steps, please? Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from yesterday, rather than sending it again. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem
On Wed, February 25, 2009 10:25 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. Can't live with it, can't live without it. Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this system with sarge, and successfully upgraded to etch a couple of years ago and have kept etch upgraded. I've tried apt-get -f dist-upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade with same results. Specific next steps, please? Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from yesterday, rather than sending it again. I would if I could... I never saw my message posted, nor did I see your response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. Now that you've beat on me, and if you're sure your comments got posted, would you please send them to me again off-list? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:10:00 -0500, John Fleming (j...@wa9als.com) wrote: On Wed, February 25, 2009 10:25 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. Can't live with it, can't live without it. Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this system with sarge, and successfully upgraded to etch a couple of years ago and have kept etch upgraded. I've tried apt-get -f dist-upgrade and aptitude dist-upgrade with same results. Specific next steps, please? Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from yesterday, rather than sending it again. I would if I could... I never saw my message posted, nor did I see your response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. They are in the archives. Tzafrir did reply to you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/02/msg02235.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/02/msg02272.html -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from yesterday, rather than sending it again. I would if I could... I never saw my message posted, nor did I see your response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. They are in the archives. Tzafrir did reply to you: Thanks, Bob! I searched for libc6 and didn't find it.Tzafrir, the answer to your question is in the subject line. It is a non-dpkg error. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
On Mar 5, 8:10 pm, Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed March 5 2008, BartlebyScrivener wrote: export CC=gcc-4.1 then restart the installation Thanks for your help. This doesn't work for me. It says that the 4.1 compiler is not able to load the driver. Make sure I have Lib6 something installed. I'll investigate. Mess. RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
If I install the nvidia drivers using these instructions (susbtituting the newest nvidia drivers for the one listed). Then it gets me into X and all works fine. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/11/28/upgrading-nvidia-drivers-in-debian-lenny/ However, on reboot, the Xserver fails to start. saying Module already built-in? thanks rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
Thanks, Paul. I had lingering glx files and kernels that were still on the machine. I followed these instructions from the nvidia forum and removed them. Works fine now. Thank you again. http://tinyurl.com/ypn66q RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
On Thu March 6 2008, Rick Dooling wrote: I had lingering glx files and kernels that were still on the machine. I followed these instructions from the nvidia forum and removed them. Works fine now. Thank you again. http://tinyurl.com/ypn66q Usually, when I get a new kernel installed and I have to reboot, I make sure I have the linus-header files installed for the new kernel.. then go to NVIDIA to make sure I have the latest driver, then reboot, type the : export CC=gcc-4.1 then the sh NVIDIA...pkh1.run then /etc/init.d/kdm restart and X restarts. 2 keys, the export command an the kernel header files.. shouldn't matter how many kernels you have around, I always have the last 2 or 3 kernels ( and header files), so at least I can go back to the last kernel that worked.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
Hello, I have an agp nvidia card, forget mfr, but the number following is 6600. I am used to losing the x-server on kernel upgrade, but I have a script that I run which always brings it back. #!/bin/sh /etc/init.d/gdm stop rmmod nvidia m-a a-i nvidia apt-get install nvidia-glx /etc/init.d/gdm start However, today when I upgraded to Lenny and the newest amd k7 kernel, this script no longer works. I see a message that says something like module already built in failed to load module nvidia module does not exist fatal server error no screens found. Any help much appreciated. I'll go to the wiki where I got my first script. Thank you RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
On Mar 5, 10:00 am, Rick Dooling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to nvidia site for latest drivers http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx Downloaded the latest drivers and followed install instructions. Got a warning about gcc compiler 4.2 not matching the version used to compile the kernel. If you know what you are doing select NO and continue the installation. Even though I don't know what I'm doing, I chose NO, continued installation, and so far it works. So, do I have this to look forward to every time the kernel upgrades :} Thanks RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
On Wed March 5 2008, Rick Dooling wrote: Got a warning about gcc compiler 4.2 not matching the version used to compile the kernel. If you know what you are doing select NO and continue the installation. when that happens to me, I quit, type: export CC=gcc-4.1 then restart the installation -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
On Mar 5, 2:00 pm, Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed March 5 2008, Rick Dooling wrote: when that happens to me, I quit, type: export CC=gcc-4.1 then restart the installation Thanks, Paul. Are you saying that I should run that command and reinstall? RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost x-server after etch to lenny upgrade
On Wed March 5 2008, BartlebyScrivener wrote: export CC=gcc-4.1 then restart the installation Thanks, Paul. Are you saying that I should run that command and reinstall? when I try to run the nvidia shell script, it gives me that gcc error, so I run that command first, then run the nvidia installer, if that's what you mean by reinstall. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete
Interesting. I'm trying to install Lenny from scratch and the install hangs at setting up ssl-cert. I'm doing this on a PowerMac G4. Is yours also on a Mac? Rick On Feb 21, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: BartlebyScrivener wrote: I can boot into the other, older kernel but many things are broken. If I try to go into Synaptic, it says I need to dpkg --configure -a. When I do that, it says: Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.15) and just hangs there. What next? Can I simply do dist-upgrade again and see if it sticks the second time? I would just play with it by removing the ssl-cert first and then doing dist-upgrade. BTW, being unable to upgrade from etch to Lenny is a bug. If you are interested, you can narrow down the problem and report it to the BTS. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. I'm trying to install Lenny from scratch and the install hangs at setting up ssl-cert. I'm doing this on a PowerMac G4. Is yours also on a Mac? Ive noticed this on amd64 and i386 also. I grabbed ssl-cert 1.0.16 (from sid) from packages.debian.org and installed it with dpkg -i ssl*.deb and after that the install completes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
etch to lenny upgrade incomplete
I use stable etch on my work machine, but decided to try dist-upgrade from etch to lenny on a machine I don't need so much. I changed etch to lenny in my sources list. The packages seemed to download okay, but during installation or configuration, when it got to hald . . . (configuring or installing) it just hung there for 10 or 20 minutes. I rebooted. The new kernel stopped with: VFS cannot open root device sdb1 or unknown block (0,0) Please append a correct root= boot option; here are available partitions. Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS unable to mount root fs on unknown block. I can boot into the other, older kernel but many things are broken. If I try to go into Synaptic, it says I need to dpkg --configure -a. When I do that, it says: Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.15) and just hangs there. What next? Can I simply do dist-upgrade again and see if it sticks the second time? Thanks for any help. RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete
BartlebyScrivener wrote: I can boot into the other, older kernel but many things are broken. If I try to go into Synaptic, it says I need to dpkg --configure -a. When I do that, it says: Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.15) and just hangs there. What next? Can I simply do dist-upgrade again and see if it sticks the second time? I would just play with it by removing the ssl-cert first and then doing dist-upgrade. BTW, being unable to upgrade from etch to Lenny is a bug. If you are interested, you can narrow down the problem and report it to the BTS. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
etch to lenny upgrade
I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: mkisofs The following packages have been kept back: libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno The following packages will be upgraded: snip The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? Thanks! Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade
Try running it as root. sudo aptitude upgrade or su - aptitude upgrade Hope it helps, Chaim On Thursday 17 May 2007 16:42:19 Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? Thanks! Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: mkisofs The following packages have been kept back: libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno The following packages will be upgraded: snip The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? Thanks! Do you recall any file that you manually removed or any thing that happended to your system that might be related to this error? Wait, did you do this as 'root'? You need to be root. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System| go to counter.li.org and | | `-http://www.debian.org/ |be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |___ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed ___| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade
On Thursday 17 May 2007 09:06, Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: mkisofs The following packages have been kept back: libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno The following packages will be upgraded: snip The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? Thanks! Do you recall any file that you manually removed or any thing that happended to your system that might be related to this error? Wait, did you do this as 'root'? You need to be root. I have done nothing to the system without aptitude except for installing Eclipse and the Java runtime. Yes, I did try this as root. I should have included that in my original post. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade
Randy Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade Well, that's probably already the first mistake. If you do something else than upgrading a stable version using security updates, you need dist-upgrade because it enables apt/aptitude to handle changed dependencies - e.g. to remove packages because of conflicts, or install additional packages because of new dependencies. debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade [...] Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? Make sure you have root permissions (and enough free space in /var to download the new packages). And maybe wait with using Testing until you have some more experience with the package management, because you surely will run into changes dependency problems more often than with Testing that with Stable. And, of course, don't forget to install apt-listchanges. regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade [more info]
On Thursday 17 May 2007 08:42, Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade debian:/home/randy# aptitude upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED: mkisofs The following packages have been kept back: libdjvulibre15 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-writer python-uno The following packages will be upgraded: snip The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: checkpolicy debconf-utils iproute-doc libjaxp1.3-java-gcj libxerces2-java-gcj mdetect mime-construct sane-utils setools vcdimager 204 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 9 not upgraded. Need to get 172kB of archives. After unpacking 32.8MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Error! E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I'm not sure how to continue from here? When I execute; dpkg -l I get the following relevant lines of information. [all other lines snipped.] Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==- ii linux-image-2.6-486 2.6.18+6Linux kernel 2.6 image on x86 iHR linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1 Linux 2.6.18 image on x86 When I type; aptitude install linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched linux-2.6.18-4-486 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? I have done all this as root. How do I manually fix the package? Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade [more info]
Randy Patterson kirjoitti to 17. toukokuuta 2007 10:50:02: When I execute; dpkg -l I get the following relevant lines of information. [all other lines snipped.] Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==- ii linux-image-2.6-486 2.6.18+6Linux kernel 2.6 image on x86 iHR linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch1 Linux 2.6.18 image on x86 When I type; aptitude install linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched linux-2.6.18-4-486 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. I would guess that the metapackage linux-image-2.6-486 is not uptodate and so it points to package linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 which don't actually exist. Wait until the fix the linux-image-2.6-XXX packages or install linux-image-2.6.20-1-486. -- ___. / \ .___ Y/|\ | 0 o / /|\Y '^^V /|\ 'v'^^' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade
On 05/17/2007 08:42 AM, Randy Patterson wrote: I have changed my sources.list to read as below. I just changed the old one by changing etch references to lenny. My current sources.list deb ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free When I do, aptitude upgrade [...] Please remember to first do aptitude update; whenever you change sources.list, you should do aptitude update first. If you are upgrading your OS to a new distribution, then you'd do this: aptitude update aptitude upgrade aptitude dist-upgrade Good luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: etch to lenny upgrade
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:42:19AM -0500, Randy Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: E: I wasn't able to locate file for the linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. E: Couldn't lock list directory..are you root? What do apt-cache showpkg linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 and apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6.18-4-486 show? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
