Need Help With Slightly Borked Debian Testing System
Brian Cluff
brian at snaptek.com
Wed Mar 5 22:34:56 MST 2014
Awesome! Glad your system is back to healthy again. I really do
recommend not using aptitude any more in the future. I think you will
find that your system stays a lot healthier in the long run.
Brian Cluff
On 03/05/2014 09:27 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Brian,
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade worked, and I have the latest new shiney gnome 3
> desktop. However, I may have to get a new laptop, as the desktop really
> spins the fan on my laptop - it uses about 75% of the CPU at times.
>
> aptitude upgrade now does not hang on dependencies, but shows the system
> is all uptodate.
>
> However, I still have the depmod warning, but I googled it an it looks
> like it may be benign.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Mark Phillips
> <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>> wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> Well that was fun....I had one failure and one warning...
>
> [FAIL] Starting NFS common utilities: statd failed! - I don't use
> NFS, so not sure why this is happening
>
> depmod: WARNING: could not open
> /var/tmp/mkinitramfs_RMlg1E/lib/modules/3.1.0-1-amd64/modules.builtin:
> No such file or directory
>
> The warning looks serious. However, a reboot after the apt-get
> upgrade returned gnome 3 as the default desktop.
>
> However, aptitude is still very confused and cannot resolve all the
> dependencies.
>
> Should I go for broke and try an apt-get dist-upgrade, or be happy
> with my current situation and just use apt-get? I feel as if I am
> pushing my luck! ;)
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Mark Phillips
> <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>> wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I solved one problem - the messed up laptop keyboard. It seems
> the num lock was engaged, but the light was not on to indicate
> that num lock was set. Once I turned off num lock, the laptop
> keyboard works as it should.
>
> apt-get -f install did nothing...it said all packages were uptodate.
>
> Trying apt-get upgrade first.......
>
> Mark
>
> On Mar 4, 2014 10:36 AM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
> It sounds like your upgrade didn't finish and has left your
> computer broken. I believe all you need to do is get your
> system to complete it's upgrade and all will be well again.
>
> I would definitely try using apt-get... try "apt-get -f
> install" to start and see if it will fix any of the missing
> packages. Then follow that with and "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> to hopefully finish the upgrade.
>
> You might find that the dependencies are in a state that you
> will have to hand install and/or downgrade certain packages
> using dpkg to get the system back into a place where apt can
> pick up and finish the install. If you haven't done an
> apt-get clean or aptitude clean recently then you will
> likely find older and newer versions of packages in
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ have can be fed to dpkg.
>
> I also recommend ditching aptitude. Years ago it looked
> like it was going to take over for apt but it never did. In
> fact many of the utilities that switched to aptitude
> switched back to apt. I've found that I tended to break
> systems quite often when I used aptitude but apt remained
> solid and has since picked up the majority of extra features
> that aptitude used to has.
>
> Brian
>
> On 03/03/2014 07:24 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> I am running Debian testing on my laptop. I use my
> laptop in two
> configurations - stand alone and with an external
> monitor and bluetooth
> keyboard and mouse. Everything was working in that I
> could switch back
> and forth as needed.
>
> I then had a need to write a bunch of documents/emails
> in German so I
> tried to add a German keyboard mapping and dictionary to
> the system. I
> was successful and could switch back and forth between
> German and
> English in LibreOffice and Gmail using the external
> keyboard.
>
> I then ran an aptitude update and then an upgrade and
> the world collapsed.
> * I no longer have gnome 3, but a fall back version of
> gnome 2.
>
> * I can type correctly with the external keyboard, but
> the keyboard on
> the laptop is all messed up. The keys do not type what
> is printed on the
> keys.
>
> * I don't have a German keyboard mapping any more.
>
> I googled for some solutions, ran some dpkg-reconfigures
> but I just
> cannot get the laptop keyboard to work properly, nor get
> back to gnome
> 3. When I run an aptitude update and then upgrade now, I
> get this
>
> # aptitude upgrade
> Resolving dependencies...
> open: 8922; closed: 14679; defer: 68; conflict: 194
>
> and the conflicts are never resolved - the numbers just
> keep changing
> and the cpus are pegged at 100%.
>
> apt-get upgrade shows many packages to be upgraded, and
> does not report
> any dependency issues.
>
> Should I try apt-get upgrade to see if it fixes the
> problem? How do I go
> about fixing the keyboard and gnome 3 issues?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
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