Well, that sort of worked. I've gotten further than I did this morning except xbmc doesn't start in full screen now. I pressed F11 but that had no effect..... oops, x-server just crashed. This is what is on the screen (after the bootup text):
39991 3781 n l LL pointer dereference at 000 1
[ 9 5 f 9 u _update+0xe/0xe0 [nouveauu
[39991.563930] *pde = 45f12067
[39991.563948] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 563970] Modules linked in: bnep rfcomm bluetooth ppdev snd_intel8x d a 9 a a a
i _seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device nouveau snd psmouse seri _ d d l drm_kms_helpe
r drm parport_pc i2c_algo mxm_wmi wmi video binfmt+misc shpchp lp parport usbhid hid e1
[39991.564021]
[39991.564021] Pid: 1374, comm: gnome shell Not tainted <kernel> 679011U/IBM
[39991.564021] EIP: 0060;[,f822b69e>] EFLAGS: 00210292 CPU: 0
3 4021] EIP is at nouveau_fence_update+0xe/0xs0 [nouveau]
3 4 2 0 BX: d94ac040 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00000001
[39991.564 2 ] 0 DI: f2575940 EBP: f2b7bd50 ESP: f2b7bd38
3 1 b : : : 00e0 SS: 0068
3 1 g e p f a 2
[39991.564021] Stack:
[39991.564021] 00000020 21b7bd50 00000010 d94ac040 000003e8 f2575940 f2b b c f822ba f
[39991.564021] 00000000 f2b7bd8c f822bb03 f2575940 0122a347 00976c38 00000000 d94ac040
] 0 f 5 9 e c a f 00000000
au]
veau_fence_wait+0x43/0xd0 [nouveau]
e n f u
[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon
58/0x70
eau]
38079>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x79/0x2d0
>] ? assert_spin_locked.part.16+0xa/0xa
7d fc 89 ec 5d c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83
9 8d 47 3c 3b 47 3c
nouveau] SS:ESP 0068:f2b7bd38
I think it'll be easier to restore my rsync copy. What option do you pass it to just overwrite newer files?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Brian Cluff
<brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
Check in /var/log and see if you have dpkg.log. If you do, you should be able to look at the bottom of the file and see what you just installed.
At that point you should be able to uninstall, downgrade, upgrade or properly configure it... what ever you think will best fix your system.
do, "apt-cache show <package_name>", and it will show you if there is more than one version available to install. If there isn't multiple versions, you might still have an old version available that you can downgrade to in /var/cache/apt/archives/
To install those, simply do dpkg -i <path/to/the/package.deb>
After that, if that package upgrade was the one that broke your system, then it should be back to normal.
Keep in mind that another upgrade will put the newer package that broke your system right back on there so you might want to skip any upgrades till the system tells you that package has been upgraded to a newer version.
There are ways to tell the system to make a certain version of a package stay on there till it's told differently, but that can cause problems in and of itself... mostly just keeping your system from being able to upgrade.
Brian Cluff
On 03/11/2013 11:47 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
I upgraded one file (I don't know what it was) but now after a few
minutes the graphics die. I just upgaded my system with apt. how can I
make it like it was before?
:-)~MIKE~(-: