Re: Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-16 Thread charles norwood
I'm having problems with opening the dvd after upgrading by dist-upgrade. For example, k9copy asks for a blank disk, but the dvd door won't open. This happens with other programs that use the dvd as well. This suggests a problem with the interface supplied by the new distro, since nothing

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 07 mar 11, 00:21:46, Mark Grieveson wrote: It never used to do this with Lenny. It's just annoying to have to pull out all eight dvds once again each time I wish to update the system (it's not as if the dvds will be any different at a later time, so I'm not sure what the rationale is

Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed by the upgrade to the

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences files. I first did the minimal system upgrade (apt-get upgrade), followed

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 14:36:07 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Hello. I have dial-up. So, I ordered Squeeze DVDs, which arrived on Friday. I added these to my sources.list (apt-cdrom add), and I commented out every other source. I got rid of my preferences

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:33:56 -0500 (EST), Mark Grieveson wrote: Then I rebooted, and proceeded to to apt-get dist-upgrade. Here began the problems. Hello, Mark. I don't know if this is your problem, but it's worth a try. I have had fits in Squeeze due to the udisks daemon. I'll mount a CD-ROM

Re: Problem with Squeeze upgrade

2011-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 21:34:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: unmount it. Or vice versa. I recommend that you shutdown and reboot, DO NOT LOGIN TO GNOME, switch to a text console via Ctrl+Alt+F1, login on the text console as root, and with luck, that pesky