Testing upgrade Failures:
I just tried to do an upgrade on testing & I,m getting several errors.
First snip of output is regarding unknown types. I have no idea what
this is but I seen it before.
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Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-alchemy'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cache'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-ascii'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-binary'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cactvs-table'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cdx'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cdxml'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-chem3d'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cif'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-cml'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-daylight-smiles'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-dmol'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gamess-input'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gamess-output'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gaussian-input'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gaussian-log'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-genbank'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-gulp'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-hin'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-inchi'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-inchi-xml'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-jcamp-dx'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-macromodel-input'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-molfile'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-rdfile'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-rxnfile'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-sdfile'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mdl-tgf'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mmcif'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mol2'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-graph'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-input'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-mopac-out'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-car'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-hessian'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-mdf'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-msi-msi'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-binary'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-xml'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-pdb'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-shelx'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-vmd'
Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-xyz'
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
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second issue is:
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Running depmod.
Running update-initramfs.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl8168d-2.fw for module
r8169
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/rtl8168d-1.fw for module
r8169
initrd.img(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
) points to /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
(/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686) -- doing nothing
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-3-686.postinst line 400.
vmlinuz(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
) points to /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
(/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686) -- doing nothing
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-3-686.postinst line 400.
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I have all the firmware drivers installed at least every package the
says it has anything to do with firmware.
third issue is:
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Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
File descriptor 11 (pipe:[279156]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID
32356: /bin/sh
File descriptor 12 (pipe:[279156]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID
32356: /bin/sh
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I have no idea what this is??? Leaks cant be good or OK can they??
Last issue is with kernel image upgrade; this has failed twice:
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Running update-grub.
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: moreblue-orbit-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-686
File descriptor 11 (pipe:[279156]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID
32356: /bin/sh
File descriptor 12 (pipe:[279156]) leaked on lvs invocation. Parent PID
32356: /bin/sh
Found Debian GNU/Linux (5.0.1) on /dev/hdb1
Found Debian GNU/Linux (4.0) on /dev/hdc1
done
Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/extlinux
2.6.32-3-686 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-3-686
run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/extlinux exited with return code 1
Failed to process /etc/kernel/postinst.d
at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.32-3-686.postinst line 868.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
9
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-686:
linux-image-2.6-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.32-3-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-686:
linux-image-686 depends on linux-image-2.6.32-3-686; however:
Package linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-686 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
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Sorry this is so long but I also know there is an issue with Openoffice
upgrade as well. I'll do that separately.
System is running OK as I have not tried to force any of these upgrades.
Ant tips are appreciated.
John Foster
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