sarge -> unstable dist-upgrade borked :(
I posted a couple of days ago about some X problems I had on
dist-upgrade to unstable. With help from the list I had fixed it and
the laptop ran like a champ.
Now for dist-upgrade the sequel!
The laptop is a Gateway Solo 9150, PentiumII, 400MHz, 384 MB, ATI
RageProLT. THe only reason I am hanging on to this puppy is that it
has screwless user swappable primary HD. I can swap the HD in 10
seconds flat! So I have serveral HDs with different OSes on
them...including some from Redmond. Comes in handly in my consulting
biz. I had dist-upgraded a 6GB HD as a test and decided to
dist-upgrade my workhorse 20GB HD afterward as a precaution...But Mr.
Murphy has stepped right in and clobbered me.
The dist-upgrade on the 20GB HD went exactly like on the 6GB and
predictably X did not work and I proceeded to correct the problem the
same way which was to add mousedev and psmouse modules and edit my
XF86Config file to set the path to /dev/input/mice. X still did not
work and digging in a bit deeper I found that there was no executabe
at /etc/X11/X symlink-> Xfree86. I further found that this executable
(on my 6GB HD) comes from the package xserver-xfree86. For some reason
that file is not installed and even after removing and installing the
package. I got into aptitude and found a sea of red with unresolved
dependencies...particularly in X.
I tried apt-get -f install which died with a kernel panic while trying
to install Atalk.
I got
Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handler - not syncing
If I reboot and run aptitude it tells me to
dpkg --configure -a
since it was interrupted and when I do I get the same kernel panic with atalk.
Is it worth fixing this problem? OR start from scratch. How do I do a
netinstall with unstable. I don't see an iso image for that.
It took about an hour for a netinstall download of about 1,170 or so
packages. Could my dependency problems the second time around have
been caused by a changing repository in the middle of my download?
I have too many questons on this issue but I better stop here. I would
very much appreciate getting educated on this issue...Thank you,
-bakki
PS: THe main reason for my upgrade was to get Ruby 1.8.4 as I do a lot
of Ruby on Rails development.
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