Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-19 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 05/12/2014 04:33 AM, Paul Elliott wrote: I like to do my packaging under sid, because that is where the packages will first have to run, so I can test them there. But what do you do when your sid system stop work after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? X11 stopped working no screens found. Of

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Greg Horn
Hi Paul, It might be helpful if you mention how far you can get. For instance, are you stuck in X11 with no screen, or do you know how to log into your system through the linux console by pressing ctrl-alt-F3 (or F4, F5...)? Did you try a previous kernel from the grub boot menu? Best, Greg On

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2014-05-12 04:33, Paul Elliott wrote: But is there some kind of work around that will let you keep working somehow? depends on what you mean by working. a) the sid machine is your primary computer, where you do all kind of things (not only

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:33:58PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: I like to do my packaging under sid, because that is where the packages will first have to run, so I can test them there. But what do you do when your sid system stop work after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? X11 stopped working

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le dimanche 11 mai 2014 à 21:33 -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : I like to do my packaging under sid, because that is where the packages will first have to run, so I can test them there. But what do you do when your sid system stop work after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? X11 stopped working

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Paul Elliott
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:45:36AM +0200, Greg Horn wrote: Hi Paul, It might be helpful if you mention how far you can get. For instance, are you stuck in X11 with no screen, or do you know how to log into your system through the linux console by pressing ctrl-alt-F3 (or F4, F5...)? Did you

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Paul Elliott
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:56:49AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Le dimanche 11 mai 2014 à 21:33 -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : It happened to me this sunday (got caught by the llvm-3.4 upgrade). I carefully downgrade each package recently updated, as logged in /var/log/apt/history.log. If i

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le lundi 12 mai 2014 à 08:13 -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:56:49AM +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote: Le dimanche 11 mai 2014 à 21:33 -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : It happened to me this sunday (got caught by the llvm-3.4 upgrade). I carefully downgrade each package

Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-12 Thread Jérémy Lal
Le lundi 12 mai 2014 à 09:26 -0400, The Wanderer a écrit : On 05/12/2014 09:20 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: Le lundi 12 mai 2014 à 08:13 -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : Below is the long list of debs that were installed. do any strike people as suspicious? i.e. the one to check first? Thank You.

What do you do when your sid development system stops working?

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Elliott
I like to do my packaging under sid, because that is where the packages will first have to run, so I can test them there. But what do you do when your sid system stop work after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade? X11 stopped working no screens found. Of course I filed a bug. But is there some kind