Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem

2008-08-24 Thread dlc
I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please post the output of the following commands: dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm ls -l /usr/share/perl/ muse:~# dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' iU perl 5.10.0-13 ii

Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem

2008-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 16:32:35 -0400, dlc AT radix DOT net wrote: I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please post the output of the following commands: dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm ls -l /usr/share/perl/

Dist-Upgrade Problem

2008-08-23 Thread David L. Craig
I tried to upgrade my Sid system after having had it shutdown for months. Apt-Get downloaded over a thousand packages! I had some trouble which resulted in finally using the -f and --fix-missing options and now I get the following results: Setting up base-passwd (3.5.18) ... Can't locate

dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets interesting: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 not fully installed or removed.' is where it gets

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:20:03 -0800, tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 I think you should follow the Sarge-Etch upgrade notes, adapting them to your somewhat different situation. There are a couple of issues to

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 not fully installed or removed.' is

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:17, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 11:46, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:37, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: Marty, should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing sources.list to the new repository. Well, fix that. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade It's a typical cascade of errors

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: Marty, should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing sources.list to the new repository. Well, fix that. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade It's a typical cascade of errors caused by the first few individual package

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:03, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 11:20:03 -0800, tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 I think you should follow the Sarge-Etch upgrade notes, adapting them to your

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:46:31PM -0500, Marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: tom arnall wrote: i attempted the distr-upgrade and after i rebooted did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r 2.6.16.4 so i did the distr-upgrade again. following is the session output. '31 not fully installed

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 12:37, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: Marty, should i be concerned about the following. i did this without pointing sources.list to the new repository. Well, fix that. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade It's a typical cascade

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
When installing a new system (etch), is there any trick I need to know for getting my home directory right? I have the one from old system backed up. When I go to restore it on the new system, I assume the installer will have put some kind of home directory on the new system under my username.

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: When installing a new system (etch), is there any trick I need to know for getting my home directory right? I have the one from old system backed up. When I go to restore it on the new system, I assume the installer will have put some kind of home directory on the new system

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 14:32, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: When installing a new system (etch), is there any trick I need to know for getting my home directory right? I have the one from old system backed up. When I go to restore it on the new system, I assume the installer will

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 14:32, Marty wrote: The simplest solution is to start with a new drive. Unplug and remove your current drive if it contains anything valuable, put it in a safe place. As the saying goes, when you're stuck in the hole, stop digging. don't have

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 15:36, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 14:32, Marty wrote: The simplest solution is to start with a new drive. Unplug and remove your current drive if it contains anything valuable, put it in a safe place. As the saying goes, when

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:49, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up? I would back up etc as well. what would be the advantage of 'rsync'? It makes perfect copies of directory trees. is there a problem with 'cp -R' in this

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up? I would back up etc as well. what would be the advantage of 'rsync'? It makes perfect copies of directory trees. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: dist-upgrade problem (was Re: /etc/modutils/0keep: line 9: keep: command not found)

2008-01-20 Thread Marty
tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:49, Marty wrote: tom arnall wrote: besides my home directory, what else should i think about backing up? I would back up etc as well. Come to think of it, I might also grab var, and maybe run dpkg-query and save the output, to make

Re: Upgrade problem: dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of

Re: Upgrade problem: dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of

Re: Upgrade problem: dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH

2007-09-29 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of

Re: Upgrade problem: dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH

2007-09-28 Thread Nick De Graeve
I was able to fix it. Apparently if the error occurs, it doesn't install the package at all. So I put the necessary dirs in root's path and ran 'aptitude install' again for the failed packages and it was ok. Thanks. Nick -- Nick's Auditorium: http://users.pandora.be/nicks_auditorium History of

Upgrade problem: dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH

2007-09-26 Thread Nick De Graeve
I'm trying to upgrade a Sarge box to Etch and several dpkg: `x' not found on PATH-errors occured. I followed the instructions in the release notes (http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch- upgrading.en.html): I ran # aptitude upgrade # aptitude install initrd-tools

Re: Upgrade problem: dpkg: 'x' not found on PATH

2007-09-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:44:09PM +0200, Nick De Graeve wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a Sarge box to Etch and several dpkg: `x' not found on PATH-errors occured. I followed the instructions in the release notes (http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Wohler wrote: Bob Proulx writes: Correct. Linux 2.4 support has been dropped post Etch. Since the kernel for this particular system (a vserver) is not under my control and I don't expect it to be upgraded anytime soon if ever this would be bad. That could be a problem. The

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-21 Thread Bill Wohler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: Bill Wohler wrote: Robert Jerrard writes: WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc. Does this imply that lenny will not support 2.4 at all?

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-19 Thread Sven Joachim
[Robert, please do not take this off-list. Thanks.] Robert Jerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 23:05 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: You should install a 2.6.18 kernel from etch, after that is done you can upgrade libc6 and the kernel to break the loop. BTW, it is not

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-19 Thread Bill Wohler
Robert Jerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc. Does this imply that lenny will not support 2.4 at all? I know that 2.4 isn't recommended under etch, but

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Bill Wohler wrote: Robert Jerrard writes: WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version 2.6.8 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it before installing glibc. Does this imply that lenny will not support 2.4 at all? Correct. Linux 2.4 support has been dropped

libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Jerrard
I am running debian unstable with kernel 2.6.5-1-k7 on an AMD Athlon processor. When I try to upgrade the kernel it tells me: penrose:~# apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6.22-1-k7 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:45:43PM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: I am running debian unstable with kernel 2.6.5-1-k7 on an AMD Athlon processor. When I try to upgrade the kernel it tells me: penrose:~# apt-get install -t etch linux-image-2.6.22-1-k7 Your reason for the -t etch may prove

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 17:06 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:45:43PM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: I am running debian unstable with kernel 2.6.5-1-k7 on an AMD Athlon processor. When I try to upgrade the kernel it tells me: penrose:~# apt-get install -t etch

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Robert Jerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, when I try 'apt-get -f install' I get: penrose:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6 The following packages

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-18 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 23:05 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Robert Jerrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, when I try 'apt-get -f install' I get: penrose:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following

Re: libc6 kernel upgrade problem

2007-08-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 03:14:32PM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 17:06 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 02:45:43PM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote: I am running debian unstable with kernel 2.6.5-1-k7 on an AMD Athlon processor. When I try to upgrade

dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
I routinely run apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my packages up to date, well when I went to do a dist-upgrade today it wants to install many texlive-* packages, yet i don't have texlive installed and i don't want it installed ! i use tetex for my tex/latex needs and don't want to

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: I routinely run apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade to keep my packages up to date, well when I went to do a dist-upgrade today it wants to install many texlive-* packages, yet i don't have texlive installed and i don't want it installed ! i use tetex for my tex/latex needs

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Zach, It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these kinds of problems this way. Cheers, Jonathan Hi Jonathan, Ok, I'm curious though 1) why it

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Zach, It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these kinds of problems this way. Cheers, Jonathan Hi Jonathan, Ok, I'm

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sun 08 Jul 2007 7:23pm +1000 from Jonathan Kaye: Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Zach, It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these kinds of

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically and seamlessly Hi Graham, Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong just 1-2 years ago. Did all the developers suddenly abandon it? How strange.

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Zach wrote: I think you can mark them as hold as in aptitude hold texlive. I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple upgrade as a matter of routine. Have you tried doing

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: upgrade is extremely conservative and will bail if it encounters even something as trivial as a new dependency that needs to be installed. dist-upgrade is a much better alternative if you're tracking unstable or testing; with upgrade, many

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Zach wrote: I think you can mark them as hold as in aptitude hold texlive. I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple upgrade as a matter of

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just today I wanted to upgrade amarok to 1.4.6 and as a result installed newer versions of a couple of other packages. That certainly unblocked things because when I did my normal upgrade I had 193 upgrades to make. I take this to be normal. If

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just today I wanted to upgrade amarok to 1.4.6 and as a result installed newer versions of a couple of other packages. That certainly unblocked things because when I did my normal upgrade I had 193 upgrades to make. I take this

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. In your /etc/apt folder create a file called preferences which looks something like this Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 What do the numbers

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
If I wish to upgrade a package would I do upgrade instead of install in your example? Should I delete this file if I wish to not do pinning? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jim McCloskey
Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On 7/8/07, Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically |and seamlessly | | Hi Graham, | | Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong | just 1-2 years ago. Did all

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 14:16:53 -0400, Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Graham Williams wrote: [...] Unless you have a specific reason to stay with tetex, might be best to just go with the flow. My observation is that the transition, left to apt-get, works just fine. Ok and will all my commands

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. In your /etc/apt folder create a file called preferences which looks something like this Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 What do

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: If I wish to upgrade a package would I do upgrade instead of install in your example? Should I delete this file if I wish to not do pinning? Zach upgrade and install are two different things. upgrade looks for a later version for all the packages that you have already installed.

Transient lenny upgrade problem with libc6 - SOLVED

2007-06-03 Thread John O'Hagan
Hi, Just to share a problem - and its solution - that I'm surprised doesn't happen more often with Testing: Did a dist-upgrade yesterday using adept (frontend for aptitude), previewing the changes first to check for breakages. After the upgrade libc6 (and three other related packages) were

Re: Transient lenny upgrade problem with libc6 - SOLVED

2007-06-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 6/3/07, John O'Hagan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just to share a problem - and its solution - that I'm surprised doesn't happen more often with Testing: Did a dist-upgrade yesterday using adept (frontend for aptitude), previewing the changes first to check for breakages. After the upgrade

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:38:49PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:34PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:35 AM -0500: I am curious whether some debconf action, or dependencies in the deb

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:23:27PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:38:49PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:34PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:35 AM -0500:

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-12 Thread Seth Goodman
will probably happen to other casual users. I also suspect it's avoidable. The setup that led to this upgrade problem was: - Debian stable installed as desktop system plus server - all package management done through Synaptic - repositories pointed to stable, not Sarge - Gnome screen saver active

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:34PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:35 AM -0500: I am curious whether some debconf action, or dependencies in the deb files, could have warned the user? Prior to a new release, I wonder if

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices ^^^ X cannot find your mouse. Try another device instead of /dev/psaux. I have /dev/input/mice Same result. Have a look for errors in dmesg. I have this: ~#

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-10 Thread Seth Goodman
Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:54 AM -0500: Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices ^^^ X cannot find your mouse. Try another device instead of

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:54 AM -0500: Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal server error: failed to initialize core devices ^^^ X cannot find

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-10 Thread Seth Goodman
Andrei Popescu wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:05 AM -0500: Are you using gpm? IIRC the xorg.conf must be setup differently if you use gpm. gpm package is not installed. -- Seth Goodman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread, someone suggested dpkg-reconfigure udev for other hardware detection problems, so I tried it. That refuses to run because it wants a more recent kernel. Missed this the first time. What kernel are you running and what version of udev?

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-10 Thread Seth Goodman
Andrei Popescu mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:35 AM -0500: Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread, someone suggested dpkg-reconfigure udev for other hardware detection problems, so I tried it. That refuses to run because it wants a more

etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I selected the normal level of questions from the terminal interface. It was going well, but now XScreenSaver activated and it does not accept my password,

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread gianca
Seth Goodman ha scritto: I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package all on the terminal display behind the screensaver :) Have you tried to kill xscreensaver after remotely loggin in? gc :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:41:06 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I selected the normal level of questions from the terminal interface. It was going well,

RE: etch upgrade problem (SOLVED)

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
gianca wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 10:04 AM -0500: Have you tried to kill xscreensaver after remotely loggin in? Florian Kulzer wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 10:41 AM -0500: You can try to kill the screen saver and/or the screen lock. However, if I kill the screen lock process on my

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I selected the normal level of questions from the terminal interface. Please note that the

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 09 April 2007 19:04, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I selected the normal level of

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 09.04.2007 at 19:55 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: Perhaps it's not a good idea upgrading while X is running, but the only problems I've ever had were when upgrading from Woody to Sarge. I seem to remember X being shutdown, and having to continue the upgrade from the command line. I

Perl locale problem (was: etch upgrade problem (SOLVED))

2007-04-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 11:24:19 -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: [...] Now on to the PERL locale variable warnings. These warnings are all similar to: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = en_US:en_GB:en,

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch did complete after killing the screensaver process, but it did not leave the system in a good state. Minor problems include Postgre failing on boot, as well as a mini-DNS server that I don't believe was in Sarge failing to

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:46:21PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: Well, a bit premature on solved status. The upgrade from Sarge to Etch did complete after killing the screensaver process, but it did not leave the system in a good state. Minor problems include Postgre failing on boot, as well as

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
Matt Richardson wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 4:39 PM -0500: I had the same problem when I upgraded sarge to etch some time ago. The solution was to add psmouse to /etc/modules. Check out lsmod and see if it's listed already, but I'd guess not. cray4:~# lsmod Module Size

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: packages, /usr/X11R6/bin contains only a lib directory with a few ^ I guess you mean /usr/X11R6/ Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Seth Goodman
Andrei Popescu wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 5:28 PM -0500: Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: packages, /usr/X11R6/bin contains only a lib directory with a few ^ I guess you mean /usr/X11R6/ Yes, sorry. /usr/X11R6/bin is a symlink to /usr/bin Section

Re: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Matt Richardson
On 4/9/07, Seth Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Richardson wrote on Monday, April 09, 2007 4:39 PM -0500: I had the same problem when I upgraded sarge to etch some time ago. The solution was to add psmouse to /etc/modules. Check out lsmod and see if it's listed already, but I'd guess

RE: etch upgrade problem

2007-04-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Seth Goodman wrote: I think your problem is in this section, see below. (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device Configured Mouse (II) UnloadModule: mouse (WW) No

Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Terrence Branscombe
Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work very well, but for some font problems. I'm very new to debian and linux, so may have made some poor decisions during the upgrade. The xfs font server

Re: Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work very well, but for some font problems. I'm very new to debian and linux, so may have

Re: Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 13:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Folkert wrote:: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following the Etch release notes as best I could. The upgrade appeared to work

Re: Etch upgrade problem with font server

2007-04-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 17:39 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 13:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Folkert wrote:: On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 10:39 -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: Yesterday, I took the leap and upgraded from Sarge to Etch by following the Etch

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-12-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but the log shows.. Hi, A few suggestions, apologies in advance if you already have tried all

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-12-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Sven Arvidsson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but the log shows.. Hi, A

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-12-11 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:04 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol: _glapi_Dispatch (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so (EE) Failed to load module GLcore (loader failed, 7) That doesn't look good, but if

Re: 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem

2006-11-22 Thread Nishant Sharma
On 11/22/06, Arvind Marathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /etc/modprobe.d/sound but lspci doesn't. Is there anything else i need to do to get sound working? Try updating the pciutils on your system. Another point: alsa shows me two cards: hda-intelIntel Corporation

Re: 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem

2006-11-21 Thread Nishant Sharma
On 11/21/06, Arvind Marathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian got installed without a hitch...and kernel upgrade also worked Great. Congrats! Now to some other issues: 1 auto mounting cd, floppy etc... I created a file /etc/auto.media with the lines: Here is my /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab:

Re: 64 bit downloading and kernel upgrade problem

2006-11-21 Thread Arvind Marathe
On 11/21/06, Arvind Marathe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian got installed without a hitch...and kernel upgrade also worked Great. Congrats! Now to some other issues: 1 auto mounting cd, floppy etc... I created a file /etc/auto.media with the lines: Here is my /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab:

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem (More Info)

2006-11-14 Thread Wayne Topa
W Paul Mills([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Fluxbox Warning: Failed to open file(/usr/share/fluxbox/nls/en_US/fluxbox.cat) for translation, using default messages. Looks like something in your config is looking for fluxbox, and it is not installed. See note below.

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem (More Info)

2006-11-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: _ X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux buddy 2.6.15y #7 Wed Sep 27

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem (More Info)

2006-11-13 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: _ X Window System Version 7.1.1 Release Date: 12 May 2006 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-11 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:05:07 -0500 Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I 'wgot' the link mentioned in a d-u post about AIGLX http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX but my video card, a Tseng Labs Inc ET6000, isn't listed as supported. I tried commenting out the 'Load dri' but get the

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Liam O'Toole([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:05:07 -0500 Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I 'wgot' the link mentioned in a d-u post about AIGLX http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AIGLX but my video card, a Tseng Labs Inc ET6000, isn't listed

xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Hi all. Has anyone else upgraded Etch in the last few days and had a problem with X? Took me a few days but finally got the 100+Meg update completed and now find I don't have a working X anymore. Actually it 'might' be working but I can't see it working because the screen is black but the log

Re: xorg 7.1.1 upgrade problem

2006-11-10 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Commend in /etc/X11/xorg.conf the following line out: Load dri As the output shows an error concerning dri. If it still doesn't work, look at the lines with (EE) in front, look if you can find something matching in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and comment it out. That should do it. Good luck!

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