Re: 2.6 kernel upgrade gives garbled video (w/o X11)
On Jun 22, 4:00 pm, "amh...@gmail.com" <amh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 22, 1:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West
>
>
>
> <and...@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:12:42PM -0000, amh...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi all,
>
> > > I recently attempted to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.27 to 2.6.18 on my
> > > Sarge installation. First off, I had to change my sources.list to use
> > > the Etch packages because of a dependency loop involving libc6.
>
> > what was the problem? there are 2.6 series kernel in sarge (2.6.8 I
> > think). You should be able to just do it without messing with Etch
> > packages. and since you've started... you may need to finish moving up
> > to Etch.
>
> > > However, I did the kernel installation w/ "apt-get install kernel-
> > > image-2.6-686" and the installation completed successfully w/ my Grub
> > > configurations updated automatically.
>
> > > When I restarted the machine and selected the 2.6 kernel, the boot
> > > process proceeded fine (and I could read all the text scrolling by).
> > > But when it came time to display the login prompt (terminal only, it's
> > > a server, so there's no X11) the screen got all garbled. Essentially
> > > all I can see is flickering black and white boxes covering the screen.
> > > However, I can login and reboot the machine - I just can't see what
> > > I'm typing.
>
> > > Anyone have any suggestions on this one? I tried installing the kernel-
> > > image-2.6-386 on a lark, but I still ran into the same problem. I'm
> > > not passing any special kernel parameters on boot to the 2.4 kernel
> > > either. What am I missing?
>
> > I think there is some new console-font stuff happening. You can see it
> > with a successful post-sarge boot .. the screen flickers while it sets
> > up the consoles. Have you tried booting single-user mode?
>
> > A
>
> No, I haven't tried booting into single user mode yet. That's a good
> idea.
>
> As for the error, I was getting this error when trying to upgrade the
> kernel:
>
> >>kernel-image-2.6-386: Depends: linux-image-2.6-486 but it is not going to be installed
> >>libc6-dev: Depends: libc6 (= 2.5-9+b1) but 2.3.6.ds1-13 is to be installed
>
> Then, I get this error when trying to upgrade libc6:
>
> >>WARNING: POSIX threads library NPTL requires kernel version
> >>2.6.1 or later. If you use a kernel 2.4, please upgrade it
> >>before installing glibc.
> >>dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.5-9+b1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>
> Would it be a good idea to change my sources back to Sarge, apt-get
> update and then try installing the 2.6 kernel package again?
> Essentially, some packages I'd like to install seem to be giving me
> libc6 errors, so the whole point of the kernel upgrade was to be able
> to upgrade libc6.
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
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So, I managed to revert back to the Sarge packages and install the
Sarge 2.6 kernel (2.6.8) without issues. However, I'm still getting
the same garbled checkerboard pattern after boot. I tried booting in
single user mode and still got the same video issues at the console.
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