Re: problems after upgrade
Fred J. <phddas@yahoo.com>:
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> I am running debian/testing with kernel 2.6.15
> In my /etc/sources.list I have basically 2 lines,
> Deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
> Deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing/ \
> testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
>
> The box has been working very well for the last 8 months and has
> gone through many $apt-get update upgrades. This morning I ran
> $sudo apt-get update and upgrade.
>
> First thing I noticed, I lost the ability to browse and to apt-get;
> in the browser I get connection has timed out.
> in the apt-get I get 0%[Connecting to http.us.debian.org
> (1.0.0.0)] and nothing happend.
> I checked and both my /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/hosts are
> the same before and after the upgrade.
What does "/sbin/ifconfig" say? What's in /etc/resolv.conf? What
does "ping -c 1 lists.debian.org" say? If that doesn't work, what
does "ping -c 1 70.103.162.30" say?
> the win2k laptop I am on now is connected to a switch which is
> connected to the debian box which in turn connected to the
> adsl/router which is connected to the wall.
> I tried to fix it by rebooting the debian box, and noticed a line
> during rebooting saying "iPV6 over iPV4 tunelling device"
> failed
Do you use iPV6? I suspect this just means that, like most people,
you don't use it so trying to find it won't work. No biggie.
> Second thing I noticed is when I click on items on the screen to
> do something ?icewm? it takes few seconds to respond.
> Never was like this before.
Hmmm ...
> Third thing I noticed is,
> $emacs
> opens and then flashed like a vagas night show.
In an Xterm, run "emacs -nw .bashrc". That should tell you if emacs
works at all.
> When I move the mouse on the aterm, it scrolls lines and flashed
> like the screen has been hit by a terrorist attack.
>
> which I did not notice before.
> I switched to my good old shell with no xwindow and it works fine.
I suspect you need to do a "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg". Looks
like X Window lost something in the upgrade. Note, if you've hand
edited the X config file, read the first page of it to find out how to
get dpkg-reconfigure to change it again.
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