On Friday 18 July 2008 04:43:14 pm celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure where to start. I'm running Sid. The system has been up > for several days, with numerous hibernate (suspend to disk) / resume > cycles. The system is partially up to date (not totally, since I only > have intermittent net access). Today, I rebooted it, and now it is > badly borked. I have no idea what the root cause of the problem is, > and what are merely symptoms, and I don't even know if there's just > one problem or many. The Debian installation currently has no net > access, so I'm mailing from Windows, and supplying information from > memory, so I may be imprecise. > > a) /dev/null apparently has the wrong permissions (I think rw-rw----). > My ordinary user has no access to it, and so lots of stuff complains > (e.g. on initial shell login, I get an endless stream of permission > errors for /dev/null, and I need to hit break.) This problem doesn't > exist for root, probably because root has r/w access to it. > > b) X won't start, neither from my ordinary user account or from root. > Several errors (EE), including a reference to insufficient video RAM, > something about DRI, etc. > > c) My wireless NIC comes up wrongly named. I had udev set up to > switch my b43 driven card from wlan0 to eth0; now it comes up as > wlan0. > > d) b43 driver doesn't work; complaints about firmware (a common b43 > gotcha, but it was working fine yesterday). > > e) I can't build or even configure kernels or modules. Even make > menuconfig fails, complaining that I need ncurses-dev, which I > certainly have, and which used to work fine. Building also fails, > with various unhelpful errors > > What could be so badly wrong with my system? Could an incomplete > upgrade be causing all this havoc? I tried manually upgrading some > key packages (manual downloading into Windows, mounting the Windows > partition and installing via dpkg), but no luck. > > Apologies in advance if Gmail mangles this message or doesn't wrap it > correctly; I generally use a proper MUA, but I'm fairly desperate now. > > Thanks, > Celejar And just for anybody else who might get bit, remove /etc/udev/rules.d/65_dmsetup.rules and all your issues will go away, THEN you can get back on the net and get an update to fix it. -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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