Need Help With Slightly Borked Debian Testing System

[Mark Phillips]

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>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>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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