Re: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in dist-upgrade]
On 1/23/06, John <JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
> On (23/01/06 07:34), Matt Price wrote:
> > To: debian users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>,
> > debian users <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org>
> > From: Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com>
> > Subject: 2.6.15 doesn't see ide disks -- very bad [WAS: system hosed by udev in
> > dist-upgrade]
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:34:40 -0500
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> > On 1/22/06, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
> <big snip>
>
> > so I'd appreciate help on either of 2 solutions:
> > 1 - find a wayto downgrade udev & undo the dist-upgrade, which I can
> > temporarily put off until I get a 2.5.12+ kernel to work properly.
> > 2 - with the system in this somewhat messed up state, figure out
> > what's wrong with the 2.6.15 kernel & fix it somehow
> >
> > I'm not especially optimistic -- but thanks for any help you canoffer!
> >
> > matt
>
> <another snip>
>
> If you haven't apt-get|aptitude cleaned, you may have an earlier
> version of udev in /var/cache/apt/archives. If so, just do, as root,
> "dpkg -i udev_0.079-1_i386.deb" (or whatever other "udev...deb" is
> there.
thanks john! that was the way forward -- did as you suggested,
compiled a new 2.6.15 kernel that WORKS, and have now completed the
dist-upgrade!
now if only I could get gnome or kde to install... but I assume that's
just an issue with kernel versions.
thanks loads!
m
>
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