Re: debian/lenny: keyboard doesn't work after software upgrade
> thanks. I post message in my mail client that puts quotes below reply.
It would also be a good idea to post in text only for this list.
> I've been happily using 2.6.24 kernel without meeting much problems.
> Recently just out of curiosity I did a upgrade (not dist-upgrade yet).
> Is there outstanding improvements in 2.6.26 that make it strongly
> recommended to dist-upgrade? Because I have many packages and drivers to
> be re-compiled if I do a dist-upgrade.
>
>
Not really any compelling reason that I know of to upgrade the kernel for
a working system. I'm not really familiar with that kernel version,
someone else might post if they have recommendations.
> The source in my source list is:
> deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb-src
> http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
>
> I think the problem is caused by 'testing' dist previously referred to
> 'Lenny', but now referred to unstable? If I want to update my system for
> lenny, do I need to change the 'testing' to 'stable'?
>
>
Yes, I think you found the reason you had that xkb-data from squeeze.
It is probably a leftover from your using Lenny (or parts of
Lenny) before the release date. And, yes, it should have been changed to
stable after release before you upgraded. The possible problem at this
point is that you now probably have a somewhat mixed system and changing
it now might be problematic. Sometimes it could work and sometimes it
could give you a mess.
I like to use codenames in my sources list. For example:
http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free. That can be a
way to avoid surprises in the time after a new release.
You might try pinning at 1001 for stable, if you are familiar with apt
pinning, and upgrade until the system gets back in sync with stable. But
no guarantee that it would downgrade back to a pure Lenny safely and don't
try it if you don't understand what is involved.
It can't hurt for you to have a look at the Lenny release notes
http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/i386/release-notes/
especially the section Chapter 4. Upgrades from previous releases.
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