Re: Broadcom

["Cavan Mejias" <cavanmejias@gmail.com>]

No luck with new install. Hangs at the same spot. Here's the output:

debian:/home/cavan# dpkg --configure --pending
debian:/home/cavan# dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
Not updating initrd symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.21-5~bpo.1 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated/reinstalled
(2.6.21-5~bpo.1 was configured last, according to dpkg)
Running postinst hook script /sbin/update-grub.
You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update-grub instead!

Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-2-amd64
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-amd64
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done


The references to locale are due I believe to my having installed libc6 2.5-5
 from testing to run a program. It also required a different tzdata. I dont think the program is installed any more.  However can I remove libc6 2.5-5 safely and install the earlier libc6 2.3.6 since so many programs depend on it (like open office and acpi)? I dont mean that exact version 
2.5-5, but the library generally. If that is affecting the install?  It does look like that might be the problem. 

                                  Sincerely
                                  Cavan

On 07/07/07, Barak A. Pearlmutter <barak@cs.nuim.ie> wrote:

If the installation had a problem then you could try this:

dpkg --configure --pending

dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.21-2-amd64

(The first line is just for safety, probably won't do anything.)
Save the transcript and send it if you still can't boot that kernel.

                                        --Barak.