Need Help With Slightly Borked Debian Testing System

[Mark Phillips]

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>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> 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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