Awesome! Glad your system is back to healthy again. I really do
recommend not using aptitude any more in the future. I think you will
find that your system stays a lot healthier in the long run.
Brian Cluff
On 03/05/2014 09:27 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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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