Re: unhappy upgrade
On Saturday 02 October 2021 12:27:26 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I tried the first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of ways...
> >
> > For some reason, the software decided to remove virtualbox. Which is a real problem, because it's inside a virtual machine that I do all of my mail, so I couldn't get at my mail for a while. In Synaptic Package Manager if I try to install it I get the following error message:
> >
> > "Package virtualbox has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list"
> >
> > I got temporarily past this by installing 8 on this laptop I'm currently typimg on. Some things are decidedly less convenient.
> >
> > Firefox is majorly different, apparently having gone from 68.9.0 --> 78.14.0esr. It no longer uses the font that I'm telling it to, and for some odd reason won't play any youtube videos any more. Instead I see a message on the screen that says "if video doesn't start momentarily restart your device". Huh?
> >
> > Konqueror is also broken, I get "Could not start proess Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file'"...
> >
> > Trying to open a file with Okular gets me a similar message.
> >
> > I don't see any way to back out of these changes, or any obvious place to look for where the problems are. Suggestions welcomed.
> >
> >
>
> Hi Roy,
>
> On the broken machine: can you give us the output of /etc/debian_version
9.13
> What's the kernel version it's currently running - uname -a should give you that.
3.16.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.84--1 (2020-06-9) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Firefox _will_ be majorly different: it's one of the packages where we
> have to continue to track upstream's -esr version because we can't backport
> security fixes.
Okay, but I don't get the apparent inability/refusal to play any videos? It's not just youtube...
> What amount of output does an apt-get update give you?
Nine lines starting with "Get:", "Ign:", "Hit:" etc.
"The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found."
"Is the package apt-transport-https installed?"
"Failed to fetch https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease";
and:
"Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead."
> If you can give us more info, we can perhaps help you better.
Hope this helps. I am really not sure what is going on here...
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