On 2008-07-18 22:43 +0200, celejar wrote: > I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up > for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume > cycles. The system is partially up to date (not totally, since I only > have intermittent net access). Today, I rebooted it, and now it is > badly borked. I have no idea what the root cause of the problem is, > and what are merely symptoms, and I don't even know if there's just > one problem or many. The Debian installation currently has no net > access, so I'm mailing from Windows, and supplying information from > memory, so I may be imprecise. > > a) /dev/null apparently has the wrong permissions (I think rw-rw----). > My ordinary user has no access to it, and so lots of stuff complains > (e.g. on initial shell login, I get an endless stream of permission > errors for /dev/null, and I need to hit break.) This problem doesn't > exist for root, probably because root has r/w access to it.
That's http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491114. > b) X won't start, neither from my ordinary user account or from root. > Several errors (EE), including a reference to insufficient video RAM, > something about DRI, etc. > > c) My wireless NIC comes up wrongly named. I had udev set up to > switch my b43 driven card from wlan0 to eth0; now it comes up as > wlan0. > > d) b43 driver doesn't work; complaints about firmware (a common b43 > gotcha, but it was working fine yesterday). > > e) I can't build or even configure kernels or modules. Even make > menuconfig fails, complaining that I need ncurses-dev, which I > certainly have, and which used to work fine. Building also fails, > with various unhelpful errors > > What could be so badly wrong with my system? Could an incomplete > upgrade be causing all this havoc? I tried manually upgrading some > key packages (manual downloading into Windows, mounting the Windows > partition and installing via dpkg), but no luck. All of this might be a consequence of a), so please install a working version of dmsetup, rebuild your initramfs and reboot. > Apologies in advance if Gmail mangles this message or doesn't wrap it > correctly; I generally use a proper MUA, but I'm fairly desperate now. Looks fine here. Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
