Re: packages meltdown
Adam Hardy wrote:
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 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 can't really comment on the Gnome issue, not being a Gnome user
myself, but if you think that udev 0.79 will fix your system, you can
get that version from snapshot.debian.net. You have to add the following
two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool udev
deb-src http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool udev
Then you can do (as root)
aptitude update
aptitude install udev=0.79-1
and you will have the old udev back. I would expect that it also works
with synaptic once you add those two lines to sources.list, but I don't
really know much about these GUI package managers.
Another possibility is to look for the older version of udev in your
package cache; the file should be named something like
/var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.079-1_i386.deb
(the bit after the last underscore depends on your architecture)
If you find the .deb file there you (root) can install it with
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.079-1_i386.deb
Regards,
Florian
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