upgrade bad

[Michael Havens]

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 at 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~(-:
>>
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