Joe wrote: ... > No other replies, so I assume this is another of My Personal Bugs. I've > reported a few bugs over the years that have turned out to be visible > only to me. I don't suppose there are any two identical installations > of sid anywhere in the world. > > Maybe this is a hint that it's time to reinstall, this installation is > probably at least ten years old, and there have been about nine > packages that can't be upgraded for a couple of months now. But that's > going to be the best part of a day that I can't really spare...
if the hardware is that old it may be having issues or a cable connection is loose or something else. that is what can be tough about such a failure. adding unstable to that well, as they say, sometimes you get to keep all the parts of what is broken. :) i only run a few bits of unstable (firefox and a few other very isolated leaf packages) and always have another partition on another device that will boot stable and also yet another stable setup on a USB stick, besides the netinst image on a USB stick that will boot a rescue prompt if needed. so far i haven't had to use them often but when i've had to check something out or compare what was going on in stable compared to testing it was a welcome help. good luck! :) songbird
