Re: Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-16 Thread charles norwood
I'm having problems with opening the dvd after upgrading by dist-upgrade. For example, k9copy asks for a blank disk, but the dvd door won't open. This happens with other programs that use the dvd as well. This suggests a problem with the interface supplied by the new distro, since nothing lik

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 07 mar 11, 00:21:46, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > It never used to do this with Lenny. It's just annoying to have to > pull out all eight dvds once again each time I wish to update the > system (it's not as if the dvds will be any different at a later time, > so I'm not sure what the rational

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:34:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > unmount it. Or vice versa. I recommend that you shutdown and > reboot, DO NOT LOGIN TO GNOME, switch to a text console via > Ctrl+Alt+F1, login on the text console as root, and with luck, > that pesky u

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:33:56 -0500 (EST), Mark Grieveson wrote: > Then I rebooted, and proceeded to to "apt-get dist-upgrade". > Here began the problems. Hello, Mark. I don't know if this is your problem, but it's worth a try. I have had fits in Squeeze due to the udisks daemon. I'll mount a CD-

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:36:07 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on > Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I > commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences >

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed by

Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed by the upgrade to the kern