Dear Debian, Minor update, it works!!!
I know I did one thing differently, which possibly influenced things, I don't know what you guys and the team did. First, check that the 2 remaining lines in sources.list ended with non-free-firmware, as in ~ deb http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free-firmware deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free-firmware ~ when I ran the dist-upgrade command, I got a couple of places where it said something like 'Errors were encountered by dpkg in dealing with ~ linux-image-6.5.0-4-amd64 ~and~ linux-image-amd64 ~ so, before rebooting, I went sudo apt install linux-image-6.5.0-4-amd64 linux-image-amd64 ~ predictably, it said something along the lines of "Those are already the newest version. What's your problem?" I also ran sudo apt autoremove, which reclaimed a surprising amount of disk space... well over 200MB. Then I rebooted and now it works. Yipee!! I know something changed, because the previous dist-upgrade went chasing 1100 files. This attempt went after 1098. Two less files. Ergo, something changed ~ in addition to the non-free-*firmware*. Thank you Debian, congratulations on your excellent work. I remain yours gratefully, Mike On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 7:24 PM Michael Thompson <kneedragon1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Debian, > > I just tried it again, and got the same result. > If you download the standard vanilla Debian netinstall ISO, create a VBox, > and install, it works fine. I just confirmed this by downloading a fresh > one. I know it's a new one because it includes the non-free-firmware part > in the sources.list, which is new. A netinstall ISO from last week didn't > mention firmware. > > 1st login, make user a member of sudo. > useradd mike sudo > Login as mike, > sudo pluma > as root, open & edit the /etc/apt/sources.list. Delete everything and add > 2 lines ~ > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free-firmware > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free-firmware > Save and close. > Now, as root or as mike, > sudo apt update ; sudo apt dist upgrade > Standard method of upgrading from vanilla to sid. > Problem is, it breaks your networking. > It loses your nic and any reference to it, any settings, any ip address ... > You cannot add something else because there is no network. > You cannot update or install anything. I sent a big email a couple of days > ago, which covered how you might work around that, but so far, it has not > been fixed. > By my reckoning, it's been 6 days now. > If my understanding is correct, then nobody anywhere can install a > vanilla Debian and upgrade to sid while this problem remains. > Yes, I am aware there are other install ISOs, there's about 80 of them. > I did find one that is a daily build of Trixie, and that has no problems, > although I didn't try to upgrade it to sid. I'm rather pleased to have a > working Trixie and I don't want to break it. > One (very long & tedious) way around this, I mentioned in my previous > email. It does work, but you might as well create a new Linux from Scratch. > It's a lot of messing about to achieve something that should be quite > straightforward. > There are something over a hundred sites and pages up, that give > simple logical instructions about how you install Debian and upgrade to > sid. Every one of those pages is currently wrong. > > Yours respectfully, > > Mike >
