RE: packages meltdown
I would recomment going for unstable since it is much more stable than testing nowadays IMO.
Update to latest kernel and udev and live happily.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Hardy [mailto:adam.ant@cyberspaceroad.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 12:38 PM
> To: debian
> Subject: packages meltdown
>
> I'm using testing and debian has got itself in a bad way now.
>
> I upgraded several packages 3 days ago and have been trying
> to sort it out since - I think the offending packages may be
> udev or libusb.
>
> I also added a line for usbfs /proc/bus/usb to my fstab.
>
> I subsequently lost my sound driver, my ability to open shell
> consoles in X, my CPU thermometer and various bits of gnome.
> My /dev/null is set to the wrong permissions on boot too.
>
> I read some other people were having issues with udev here:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/04/msg00631.html
>
> so I decided to try to downgrade my udev to v0.79 (I can't
> deinstall it, gnome is dependent on it) but I can't find udev
> 0.79 anywhere to do that (either on any website or via
> package manager such as aptitude (no other versions
> available) or synaptic (the option is disabled for reasons I
> can't fathom)).
>
> So I'm stuck. I can't figure out how to fix it and I'm
> wondering why I am using the testing distro after all.
> Perhaps I should downgrade my whole system to sarge? Or
> perhaps just reinstall testing?
>
> I'd be v. grateful for any realistic advice at this point.
>
> Thanks
>
> Adam
>
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