Re: Debian Jessie / 3.16.0-9 / system broken

2019-05-28 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 28 May 2019 19:51:06 + Frederic Robert wrote: (...) > if i reboot to the kernel 3.16.0-8 the system is working. With 3.16.0-9 > the display is broken and the computer often freezes maybe there is a newly introduced bug with your video driver? I think the best thing to do is to

Re: Debian Jessie / 3.16.0-9 / system broken

2019-05-28 Thread Frederic Robert
On 5/28/19 7:39 PM, Frederic Robert wrote: Hello, How are you? today i installed security fixes and the kernel 3.16.0-9 was installed. When i reboot my computer, the system was broken. Is there a problem with this kernel? Greetings, if i reboot to the kernel 3.16.0-8 the system is working

Debian Jessie / 3.16.0-9 / system broken

2019-05-28 Thread Frederic Robert
Hello, How are you? today i installed security fixes and the kernel 3.16.0-9 was installed. When i reboot my computer, the system was broken. Is there a problem with this kernel? Greetings, -- Frédéric Robert

Re: [SOLVED] System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-14 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:44:06 CEST solitone wrote: > I tried and reset NVRAM, a nonvolatile random-access memory that > Macs use to store certain settings like sound volume, display resolution, > and (I realise only now) startup disk selection.. and GRUB doesn't start > any longer, it boots

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:02:06 CEST solitone wrote: > Apparenlty the only way I can restore functioning of the integrated keyboard > and trackpad is by booting up with an external usb keyboard and an external > usb mouse plugged in. I have the usual issues in grub and during bootup, > but when

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:20:34 CEST Michael Lange wrote: > Another thought: if that is possible, have you tried to boot into a live > system, just to rule out a hardware issue? I had used Apple Diagnostics to perform a hardware check, and nothing wrong was found. After that, I tried and re

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread Michael Lange
On Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:02:06 +0200 solitone wrote: > On Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:27:22 CEST Michael Lange wrote: > > I would try to install a different kernel (if possible with external > > keyboard) and boot into that one, if the problem disappears the > > culprit is most likely the kernel. >

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 13-04-17, solitone wrote: > On Thursday, 13 April 2017 09:53:05 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > > If you have old kernel, you do not have to choose it in the GRUB menu during > > boot, you can set up your GRUB to boot from it automatically. > > I have a submenu entry in my grub.cfg: > > solitone@al

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:27:22 CEST Michael Lange wrote: > I would try to install a different kernel (if possible with external > keyboard) and boot into that one, if the problem disappears the culprit is > most likely the kernel. I managed to boot into the older kernel that I still had in th

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 09:53:05 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > If you have old kernel, you do not have to choose it in the GRUB menu during > boot, you can set up your GRUB to boot from it automatically. I have a submenu entry in my grub.cfg: solitone@alan:~$ grep --color menu /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 13-04-17, solitone wrote: > On Thursday, 13 April 2017 01:23:02 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > > He should have old kernel still installed, right? If that is the case, > > he could simply boot with old kernel. > > Yes, I still have 4.9.0-1-amd64. > > The point is even in the GRUB menu screen my ke

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 01:23:02 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > He should have old kernel still installed, right? If that is the case, > he could simply boot with old kernel. Yes, I still have 4.9.0-1-amd64. The point is even in the GRUB menu screen my keyboard no longer works well, which is even

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 22:29:25 CEST Mart van de Wege wrote: > It's USB-related, so I'd say either the kernel package or udev. Ok, thanks. These are the related packages that were upgrated: linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64:amd64 (4.9.13-1, 4.9.18-1) udev:amd64 (232-19, 232-22) libudev1:amd64 (232-1

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 13-04-17, Michael Lange wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:13:44 +0200 > solitone wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues a

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 22:13:44 +0200 solitone wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: > > I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to > what component might be actually involved

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
solitone: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: >> I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to what > component might be actually involved. I'd use reportbug againt the kernel pack

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
solitone writes: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: >> I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to what > component might be actually involved. > It's USB-related, so I'd say ei

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: > I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to what component might be actually involved. Thanks, Davide

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
solitone: > > Hi, something really weird is going on today on my system--debian stretch on > an Apple MacBookPro 12,1. If googling doesn't turn up something helpful (and maybe even then) I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. Regards, Jochen. -- If politics is the blind lea

System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread solitone
Hi, something really weird is going on today on my system--debian stretch on an Apple MacBookPro 12,1. Some time ago I noticed a strange issue with USB, which prevented the keyboard and the trackpad to work after bootup (they are both USB devices on MacBookPro's). Here's an extract of the kerne

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Joe
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 15:23:06 -0400 Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, The Wanderer > wrote: > > On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer > >> wrote: > >>> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > > halt/poweroff/reboot have ca

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer >> wrote: >>> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since 6/squeeze. >>> >>> Ah, so that m

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: >>> halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at least since >>> 6/squeeze. >> >> Ah, so that may be a Debian

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer >> wrote: >>> On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, in other

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>> If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel >>> 0 or 6, in other words when

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 06:45:04 + Bonno Bloksma sent: > Charlie: According to the man pages all 3, halt, poweroff and reboot, > use the shutdown command to perform the necessary steps when not > starting in runlevel 0 or 6, which is pretty much always. So it is > really weird that in your case po

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> >> Charlie: According to the man pages all 3, halt, poweroff and reboot, >> use the shutdown command to perform the necessary steps when not >> starting in runlevel 0 or 6, which is pretty much a

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 09:12 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-08-10 14:46 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> >>> - >>> If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel >>> 0 or 6, in oth

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-10 14:46 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > >> - >> If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 >> or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be >> invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Wanderer: While using Wheezy starting to use poweroff is the proper > way to migrate from halt. But I do agree, it might have been a good > idea to communicate this in a better way. That's Debian-speci

RE: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-09 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:46:51 + Rodolfo Medina sent: > > > >> I've always used `halt' to shutdown the machine. Is `poweroff' >> proper to do that? >> >> Rodolfo > > poweroff doesn't work for me, but I tried it as root, next time I use it I > will try it as user and see if it works th

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-09 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:46:51 + Rodolfo Medina sent: > I've always used `halt' to shutdown the machine. Is `poweroff' > proper to do that? > > Rodolfo poweroff doesn't work for me, but I tried it as root, next time I use it I will try it as user and see if it works then. shutdown now does

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-09 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/08/2014 03:51 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi Rodolfo, > >> Two days ago, after full-upgrade, as explained, it was impossible >> to boot neither to reboot and I had to unplug the machine. Thanks >> to lister's help, the above commands through

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 13:20:40 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > Boot into the OS on sda6. Read the documentation for the version of grub >> > on it, Try 'grub-install /dev/sda'. >> >> Thanks. The last command (grub-install /dev/sda) succeded in putting s

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi Rodolfo, > >> Two days ago, after full-upgrade, as explained, it was impossible to boot >> neither to reboot and I had to unplug the machine. Thanks to lister's help, >> the above commands through debian-installer in rescue mode managed to repair >> the system. But no

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 13:20:40 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > Boot into the OS on sda6. Read the documentation for the version of grub > > on it, Try 'grub-install /dev/sda'. > > Thanks. The last command (grub-install /dev/sda) succeded in putting sda6 in > master boot reco

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 07:25:19 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> 2) I don't manage to move boot partition from sda7 (Sid) to sda6 >> (oldstable): the commands >> >> # grub >> grub > root (hd0,5) >> grub > setup (hd0) >> grub > quit > > Your prompt is for GRUB. T

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 07:25:19 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > 2) I don't manage to move boot partition from sda7 (Sid) to sda6 (oldstable): > the commands > > # grub > grub > root (hd0,5) > grub > setup (hd0) > grub > quit Your prompt is for GRUB. The commands seem to be GRU

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-08 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 07:51:04 + Bonno Bloksma sent: > Don't shutdown with the halt(8) command, it is not supposed to power > off the machine, and the systemd maintainers consider it a bug[1] > that the sysvinit implementation does it anyway. Use the poweroff > command instead. I found that, th

RE: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-08 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Rodolfo, > Two days ago, after full-upgrade, as explained, it was impossible to boot > neither to reboot and I had to > unplug the machine. Thanks to lister's help, the above commands through > debian-installer in rescue mode > managed to repair the system. But now two problems still remain

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 06/08/14 09:33 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. Brian writes: > On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 12:39:59 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> At the prompt issue the commands >> >grub-install /dev/sda > >update-grub > >exit > > Then re

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 12:39:59 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> At the prompt issue the commands >> >> grub-install /dev/sda >> >> update-grub >> >> reboot > > Forget the last line. > >grub-install /dev/sda > >update-grub > >exit > > Then reboot. All right, it worke

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 13:14:35 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 12:39:59 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > >> At the prompt issue the commands > >> > >> grub-install /dev/sda > >> > >> update-grub > >> > >> reboot > > > > Forget the last line. > > > >

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: > On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 12:39:59 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> At the prompt issue the commands >> >> grub-install /dev/sda >> >> update-grub >> >> reboot > > Forget the last line. > >grub-install /dev/sda > >update-grub > >exit > > Then reboot. When I do `grub-ins

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-07 Thread Brian
On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 12:39:59 +0100, Brian wrote: > At the prompt issue the commands > > grub-install /dev/sda > > update-grub > > reboot Forget the last line. grub-install /dev/sda update-grub exit Then reboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-07 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Bob Proulx writes: > Gary Dale wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I >> >read > > Sid is the unstable child... > >> To get back into your system, you can try booting from a Linux CD (system >> rescue CD, for example) and try

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 6 Aug 2014 20:10 +, from rodolfo.med...@gmail.com (Rodolfo Medina): `After this message, you will be given a shell with /dfev/sda7 mounted on "/"...' I press enter, and it gets back to the previous: `Execute a shell in /dev/sda7'. I press enter, and again to `Aft

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 20:10:24 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > Brian writes: > > > >> Never seen that behaviour. Is /dev/sda7 where you have your root file > >> system? Are you using the Wheezy installer? > > > > Well, no, I'm using Lenny installer. > > > > Rodolfo

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Brian writes: > > N> On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 17:04:55 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Bob Proulx writes: >>> >>> > Then eventually it will get to a menu "Enter rescue mode" that will >>> > ask what device to use as a root file system. It will list the >>> > partitio

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Brian writes: N> On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 17:04:55 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Bob Proulx writes: >> >> > Then eventually it will get to a menu "Enter rescue mode" that will >> > ask what device to use as a root file system. It will list the >> > partitions that it has automatically detecte

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Brian
On Wed 06 Aug 2014 at 17:04:55 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > > Then eventually it will get to a menu "Enter rescue mode" that will > > ask what device to use as a root file system. It will list the > > partitions that it has automatically detected. (If you have raid or

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Bob Proulx writes: > Gary Dale wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I >> >read > > Sid is the unstable child... > >> To get back into your system, you can try booting from a Linux CD (system >> rescue CD, for example) and try

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Dale wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I > >read Sid is the unstable child... > To get back into your system, you can try booting from a Linux CD (system > rescue CD, for example) and trying to debug from there. For ex

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/08/14 09:33 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I read Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Could that message provide any suggestion for what has happened and how to fix it? I have no idea what to do. T

System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi all. My Debian Sid box won't restart after today's full-upgrade. At booting, I read Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Could that message provide any suggestion for what has happened and how to fix it? I have no idea what to do. Thanks in advance for any help, Rodolfo -- T

Apparently resolved - was Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-05 Thread Bret Busby
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011, Bret Busby wrote: which I think is the same error message. It now seems to be fixed. I have apparently now managed to perform an update, in which Evince was apparently updated. Thank you to the people responsible for getting it fixed. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Aust

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:48:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> That was fast... is now solved. Good job! > > But I have just tried again, and I get > > " > Could not initialize the package information > > A unresolvable problem occurred while initializing

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in the taskbar), I got the following error. (...) Already reported: http:/

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Bret Busby
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, Camaleón wrote: Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:13:02 + (UTC) From: Camaleón To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debian 5 update system broken Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:15:49 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:05:19 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, >> in the taskbar), I got the following error. > > (...) > > Already reported: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:58:13 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Debian 5 on this computer (have been so far unable to > instal Debian 6 on anything). > > With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in > the taskbar), I got the following error. (...) Al

Debian 5 update system broken

2011-12-03 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am running Debian 5 on this computer (have been so far unable to instal Debian 6 on anything). With an update notification (the gold star with the exclamation mark, in the taskbar), I got the following error. " Could not initialize the package information A unresolvable problem oc

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:56:21 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine. > > However in looking through syslog I saw this: > > [...] > > > > May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: unabl

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-22 18:37 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine. > However in looking through syslog I saw this: > [...] > > May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [5.698554] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL > pointer dereference at (null) Ouch. > Is

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:18:25 -0400 Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > > > upgrades...which are: > > > > > > > > > [UPGRA

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:51:25 +0100 Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > > upgrades...which are: > > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > > upgrades...which are: > > > > > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > > [UPG

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:34 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > upgrades...which are: > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 -> 1.60-24 > [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 -> 170-1 >

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays > upgrades...which are: > > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1 > [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 -> 1.60-24 > [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 -> 170-1 > ==

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. Any sugge

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 16:24 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > > (there were various libraries) has affected both ker

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 22 May 2011 16:24:02 +0100 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > > (there were various libraries) has affected both ker

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 May 2011, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > > (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in > > a bug report but I have no idea where the pr

Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:08 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I can only suppose that some package which was also upgraded today > (there were various libraries) has affected both kernels. I would put in > a bug report but I have no idea where the problem could lie. > > Any suggestions? A list o

System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?

2011-05-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been using linux-image-2.6.38-2-686 for some time without preblems. After a dist-upgrade in Sid today I acquired linux-image-2.6.39-1-686-pae. On booting this I had no connection (wired) to my router. Also, on starting X (startx) the screen locked up and I had to do a hard reset. I reverted

Re: grub in my sid system broken Finally fixed itself

2008-08-16 Thread Paul Scott
The problem finally fixed it self with various updates of grub-pc and grub-common packages and another kernel update. Thanks for the help, Paul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Scott
Andreas Janssen wrote: > Gilles Mocellin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >> Le Thursday 07 August 2008 15:41:25 chris, vous avez écrit : (snip) >>> It looks as if there is no /sbin/update-grub on your system. >>> If so, you might want to reinstall grub. >>> >> I remember

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-08 Thread chris
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:30:30 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > chris wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:56 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >> >> >> >>> Running >>> postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. User postinst hook script >>> [/sbin/update-grub] failed to execute: No

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-07 Thread Paul Scott
chris wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:56 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > >> Hi, >> > > > > >> Running >> postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. User postinst hook script >> [/sbin/update-grub] failed to execute: No such file or directory >> > > It looks as if there is no /sbin/upd

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-07 Thread Andreas Janssen
Gilles Mocellin (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Le Thursday 07 August 2008 15:41:25 chris, vous avez écrit : >> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:56 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: >>> Running >>> postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. User postinst hook script >>> [/sbin/update-grub] failed to execute: No such f

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-07 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Thursday 07 August 2008 15:41:25 chris, vous avez écrit : > On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:56 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Running > > postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. User postinst hook script > > [/sbin/update-grub] failed to execute: No such file or directory > > It looks as

Re: grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-07 Thread chris
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:28:56 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > Running > postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub. User postinst hook script > [/sbin/update-grub] failed to execute: No such file or directory It looks as if there is no /sbin/update-grub on your system. If so, you might want to rei

grub in my sid system broken

2008-08-05 Thread Paul Scott
Hi, On my sid system grub stops with a simple grub prompt and I have enter the commands manually. I may have missed something with recent (last few months) changes to grub. The grub man pages I have give only the brief parameter explanations but not enough information to make sense of this. The

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:39:57 -0400, Steve Newcomb wrote: [...] > lprng lets me set up my own filters. The only filters I need are > easy: pnm2ppa and a little something that prepends some postscript > that tells my HP 4050 JetDirect to be in duplex mode. > > One of the simple tasks that I

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/05/2007 09:39 AM, Steve Newcomb wrote: [...] One of the simple tasks that I have never succeeded in getting Cupsys to do, even after many hours of fiddling, was to describe the same printer hardware in two ways, one simplex and one duplex. [...] I had an unfortunate run-in also where I co

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-05 Thread Steve Newcomb
"Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: > > I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed > > lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, > > it worked fine. > > > > How did cupsys get installed? I doubt that it

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/04/2007 01:35 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, it worked fine. How did cupsys get installed? I doubt that it was installed by default, because I have Etch and no cups

Re: package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys

2007-09-04 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/04/2007 12:10 PM, Steve Newcomb wrote: I am a long-time Debian user and sysadmin and I'm very frustrated these days. There seems no way out of my problem, other than to re-install the entire OS from scratch and then simply *not* attempt to replace cupsys, which still doesn't work. I have

package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys -- correction

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I did an experiment that makes a liar out of me: I installed lenny and BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE I removed cupsys. Bafflingly, it worked fine. So I reviewed what I had done the last time, and, yes, I had installed a few other packages before attempting to remove cupsys. They were: emacs, cvs, s

package system broken by aptitude removing cupsys

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Newcomb
I am a long-time Debian user and sysadmin and I'm very frustrated these days. There seems no way out of my problem, other than to re-install the entire OS from scratch and then simply *not* attempt to replace cupsys, which still doesn't work. I have fallen into this "now start all over" trap seve

Re: [Solved - work-around] Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:22:58 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 14:20:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:10:39 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > You could also google for "DXS:1313 HorizSync VertRefresh" and use > > > one of

Re: [Solved - work-around] Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 14:20:54 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:10:39 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > You could also google for "DXS:1313 HorizSync VertRefresh" and use > > one of the search results as a template for your xorg.conf. > > The first 10 or so results from Goo

Re: [Solved - work-around] Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-25 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:10:39 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> > Why don't you try the simplest possible configuration settings: > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Generic Monitor" > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > and this type of entry in the "Sc

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 21:44:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:44:43 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > If you don't find your monitor on the web then you can try to run > > > > get-edid | parse-edid > > > > to see what the monitor itself reports. > > > > Here's the 'get-edid |

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-19 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:44:43 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 00:07:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: <> > > Thanks for the useful pointer to monitorworld.com. The front bezel of > > the monitor says "Midwest Micro Elite", and since the screen is about > > 14 inch

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 00:07:46 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:38:44 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > <> > > > I have no experience with SiS video hardware, therefore I can only > > make general remarks: > > > > If you are unsure about the capabilities of your monitor you can try

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-18 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:38:44 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <> > I have no experience with SiS video hardware, therefore I can only make > general remarks: > > If you are unsure about the capabilities of your monitor you can try to > find it on http://www.monitorworld.com/Monito

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-17 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 00:30:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:50 +0200 > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 00:10:16 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:30:37 +0200 > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:31:41 -040

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-17 Thread Paul Scott
Celejar wrote: Hi, On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:51:14 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell L. Harris) wrote: Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm stymied about my inability to properly (re) configure my Xorg X server; I've googled and found people with similar problems, but no systematic sol

Re: Is the xserver-xorg configuration system broken?

2006-08-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:44:50 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 00:10:16 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 21:30:37 +0200 > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 09:31:41 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On M

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