Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Charlie a écrit : I don't think apt-get safe-upgrade is possible [apt-get safe-upgrade E: Invalid operation safe-upgrade] He/she obviously likes the safe-upgrade option because it sounds safe. Like nothing will break maybe? AFAIK, aptitude safe-upgrade and apt-get upgrade do exactly the

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-04 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 04 Jul 2015 07:51:43 -0500 John Hasler sent: Lisi writes: Why are you mixing apt-get and aptitude in this rather strange way? Is there a reason? apt-get update and aptitude update do *exactly* the same thing. But he is not doing the same thing, he is doing: [quote] apt-get

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:37:21 Michael Fothergill wrote: ​I added the non-free epiphet to the sources.list file and then did apt-get update and aptitude safe-upgrade etc. I failed to take this in before. Why are you mixing apt-get and aptitude in this rather strange way? Is there a

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Michael Fothergill a écrit : But, I thought that if X windows can't work without a given package, even if it is a non-free one, then once the sources.list file has the non-free moniker present it then if you ran apt-get update and then aptitude safe-upgrade it would automatically fetch it

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-04 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: Why are you mixing apt-get and aptitude in this rather strange way? Is there a reason? apt-get update and aptitude update do *exactly* the same thing. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-03 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 2 July 2015 at 20:29, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:37:21 Michael Fothergill wrote: I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. It is not automatic. No, it is not. Upgrade doesn't know what new software you want to

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-02 Thread Michael Fothergill
Do you have this package installed? What does apt-cache policy linux-firmware-nonfree say? ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree ie it's not installed I guess That message means that apt-cache can't find that package at all. If you have recently added non-free to

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-07-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 02 July 2015 18:37:21 Michael Fothergill wrote: I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. It is not automatic. No, it is not. Upgrade doesn't know what new software you want to install!!! I should read up on aptitude. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 14:11:19 +0100 Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: ​​Seeing an Xorg.0.log file from a normal boot would be good, plus the complete dmesg output. Cheers, Sven The ​ Xorg.0.log file is found here: http://paste.debian.net/237917/ [ 453.202]

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
Also, what does cat /proc/cmdline say? ​It says:​ ​BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.14-2-amd64 root=UUID=26e72a74-ba29-4936-b388-3876839bc56b ro quiet​ ​ Regards MF​ ​​ Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive.

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:25:37 +0100 Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: Do you have this package installed? What does apt-cache policy linux-firmware-nonfree say? ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree ie it's not installed I guess That message means

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
linux-firmware-nonfree package, in case you don't have this installed. Do you have this package installed? What does apt-cache policy linux-firmware-nonfree say? ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree ie it's not installed I guess ​ deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
I'm running this chip with unstable and it boots fine. Looks like testing and unstable are on the same X.org currently, but unstable is using a newer kernel. Also I see something in dmesg about kaveri firmware being loaded, which I believe is provided by the linux-firmware-nonfree

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Michael Fothergill
So you're still not getting modesetting. Are you sure you booted *without* nomodeset on the kernel line? The dmesg file was empty. Strange. Petter ​I haven't tried the nomodeset thing yet. My sources.list file looks like this: ​# # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Jessie_ -

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 10:51:43 +0100 Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm running this chip with unstable and it boots fine. Looks like testing and unstable are on the same X.org currently, but unstable is using a newer kernel. Also I see something in

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/19/2015 at 08:44 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:25:37 +0100 Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: Do you have this package installed? What does apt-cache policy linux-firmware-nonfree say? ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
​​Seeing an Xorg.0.log file from a normal boot would be good, plus the complete dmesg output. Cheers, Sven The ​ Xorg.0.log file is found here: http://paste.debian.net/237917/ The dmesg file was empty. Regards MF

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
ctrl C etc does not seem to drop down a command line interface etc. Try Ctrl + Alt + F1 ^^ That should have been F2, sorry. ​crtl alt f2 worked thanks MF ​ Petter -- I'm ionized Are you sure? I'm positive. -- Climostat Ltd Rm 5169 The Heath

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
don't recall you saying what graphics hardware you have but I think it is a radeon? What is your lspci entry for it? lspci | grep VGA ​It is an AMD Kaveri box Radeon R7 200 series​ (APU) http://www.eteknix.com/complete-amd-kaveri-review-a10-7850k-a10-7700k-a8-7600/ I have the A10-7850k APU

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Seeker
On 6/18/2015 7:48 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: don't recall you saying what graphics hardware you have but I think it is a radeon? What is your lspci entry for it? lspci | grep VGA ​It is an AMD Kaveri box Radeon R7 200 series​ (APU)

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: I fear the problem is the newer Linux KMS and DRM interfaces which obsoleted a lot of hardware. I have been hit by that problem myself. Whereas older kernels worked perfectly

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 08:44:22 +0200 Petter Adsen pet...@synth.no wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:09:31 +0100 Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote:

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:09:31 +0100 Michael Fothergill michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??)

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
Check /var/log/dpkg.log for a trace of what was installed previously and what was removed and what was recently installed. ​I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to search for within it​ I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file:

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Fothergill wrote: ​I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to search for within it​ I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11731677/ Looking only at entries related to the xserver and filtering out status and

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. Note that it will log errors with EE at the front. This is where the errors start:

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: Check /var/log/dpkg.log for a trace of what was installed previously and what was removed and what was recently installed. I think it likely your xserver driver was removed due to a conflict. Figure out what had been running and install it again. In order to reduce the

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Fothergill
What errors are seen in /var/log/Xorg.0.log file? I have copied the output here:​ [15.096] X.Org X Server 1.17.1 Release Date: 2015-02-10 [15.096] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [15.096] Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 Debian [15.096] Current Operating

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Fothergill wrote: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. Note that it will log errors with EE at the front. This is where the errors start: [15.104] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. [15.104] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. Note that it will log errors with EE at the front. This is where the errors start: [15.104] (II) [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't supported. Was

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-09 Thread Petter Adsen
On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:35:16 -0600 Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Michael Fothergill wrote: I can boot in recovery mode but if I do that as root if I run aptitude it doesn't download packages - I think there is no internet connection being made. That makes me think you are running

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Fothergill wrote: I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did Testing is a development track. It isn't released. Welcome to the process of making the release. Remember that when running Testing or Unstable that you are part of the development process. You

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 08 June 2015 17:36:36 Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian Folks, I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did aptitude safe-upgrade. It worked OK or so it seemed. But then I decided to try aptitude dist-upgrade afterward. That wanted to rehash the

I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-08 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian Folks, I changed from jessie to stretch in my sources.list file and then did aptitude safe-upgrade. It worked OK or so it seemed. But then I decided to try aptitude dist-upgrade afterward. That wanted to rehash the xorg-server video package and after doing it when I boot up the