Re: Debian put into a broken state
On Thursday 01 April 2004 20:39, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> I'm new to Debian, and this morning I put a half-way finished installation
> into a broken state and I can't figure out how to get it back on track.
>
> Basically, I was trying to get a KDE machine working, and this morning I
> added non-free and contrib to my sources.list file so I could install the
> nvidia driver. I had the machine working primitively with
> networking+dhcpcd working, but KDE wasn't running yet because I needed to
> install the nvidia driver. I had both testing and unstable sources in
> sources.list in order to get KDE 3.2 installed. After adding non-free and
> contrib to my sources this morning, I ran apt-get update, dist-upgrade and
> upgrade, then apt-get install nvidia-glx. I rebooted the system after that
Its been a while since I worked with the nvidia drivers, but don't you have to
build them from source once you've downloaded the debian package?
> to see how it would all go, and at that point, things were pretty funky.
> eth0 isn't up, I can't get dhcpcd to start, and now I can't even get kdm to
What happened when the should have started - was there any error on the
console?
> report anything in /var/log/kdm.log nor XFree86 to report anything in
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log...they apparently both die before they can even log
> anything.
XFree86.0.log is the day old log. Is there no new log. Did X even try to
start?
>
> What should I do to get things straightened back out? What did I do to get
> things into this state?
>
> Just in case, I've included my /etc/apt/sources.list file. Is there
> anything else I should provide for reference?
Need much clearer description of exactly what happened during start up. Are
you left with a login prompt on the text console?
> >
> Sean O'Dell
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