On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 16:19:46 -0800, Marc Mims wrote: > Package: installation-reports > Severity: normal > > > I ran "apt-get dist-upgrade -u" to upgrade to Squeeze and encountered > the following issues: > > 1. install-info > > /etc/default/locale: line 1: en_US: command not found > dpkg: error processing install-info (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 > configured to not write apport reports > Errors were encountered while processing: > install-info > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I had the following in /etc/default/locale: > > en_US.ISO-8859-1 > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > I deleted the first line and restarted the upgrade. I believe the > erroneous first line must have come from some prior upgrade. I > don't recall ever manually editing locale. I don't think I've seen this reported before, so if you don't know where this came from we probably can't find out at this point. > 2. Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libisc52_1%3a9.6.ESV.R1+dfsg-0+lenny2_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > I forced the installation with: > > dpkg -i --force-overwrite --force-depends /var/cache/apt/archives/libisc52_1%3a9.6.ESV.R1+dfsg-0+lenny2_i386.deb > What was the full output? What errors were encountered while installing that package? > 3. After reboot X failed to start (with startx) > > Running startx caused a loop with an error something like: "no protocol **" > I recompiled ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, then X started without a problem. > That should probably be documented in the xmonad package, if it isn't yet. > 5. After running upgrade-from-grub-legacy, blank screen during boot > > Durnig the boot process, I'm prompted for my crypt password and the boot > process continues. Early in the process, the screen blanks. *Sometimes* it > would switch to a hi-res vga mode, but most of the time it would go blank. > > I was able to login and startx in the blind. > > I appear to have fixed the problem by adding "vga=794" to my kernel options > in /etc/default/grub and running update-grub. Please attach the kernel log (dmesg) both with and without vga=794 in your kernel command line. Thanks, Julien
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