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Foolish use of apt autoremove
Foolish use of apt autoremove
Hi,
My Stretch system won't boot anymore... after Grub, the screen goes black, the fsck line shows up as normal then after about the usual 20 seconds of disk activity, the disk light goes off and the system does nothing.
The most likely candidate for this state is recently I did an apt-get upgrade that recommended doing an apt autoremove. I then ran the autoremove without paying close attention to what was being removed. It seemed like a bunch of old kernel files so rather foolishly I went ahead. I can't believe I wasn't more careful.
I have a triple boot system also including Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Thinking that I could have been running one of those older kernels I booted to Ubuntu and ran grub-install: no change. Then I tried a chroot from Ubuntu to run a grub-install "from Debian" but that didn't solve the issue either.
I guess now that some important package was removed. How to find it and install it ? Or has anyone got some better suggestions ?
Many thanks in advance!
My Stretch system won't boot anymore... after Grub, the screen goes black, the fsck line shows up as normal then after about the usual 20 seconds of disk activity, the disk light goes off and the system does nothing.
The most likely candidate for this state is recently I did an apt-get upgrade that recommended doing an apt autoremove. I then ran the autoremove without paying close attention to what was being removed. It seemed like a bunch of old kernel files so rather foolishly I went ahead. I can't believe I wasn't more careful.
I have a triple boot system also including Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Thinking that I could have been running one of those older kernels I booted to Ubuntu and ran grub-install: no change. Then I tried a chroot from Ubuntu to run a grub-install "from Debian" but that didn't solve the issue either.
I guess now that some important package was removed. How to find it and install it ? Or has anyone got some better suggestions ?
Many thanks in advance!
Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
Please post the file /var/log/apt/history.log of your debian.
Have a nice day!
Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
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I use KDE as my main DE/window manager.
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Start-Date: 2019-01-06 18:48:03
Commandline: apt autoremove
Requested-By: idiot (1000)
Remove: libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler:amd64 (375.82-1~deb9u1), python-sip:amd64 (4.18.1+dfsg-2), plasma-containments-addons:amd64 (4:4.14.2-1), libdirectfb-dev:amd64 (1.2.10.0-8+deb9u1), python-dbus-dev:amd64 (1.2.4-1), gtk2-engines:amd64 (1:2.20.2-3), libksignalplotter4:amd64 (4:4.11.13-2), linux-headers-4.9.0-5-amd64:amd64 (4.9.65-3+deb9u2), plasma-widget-lancelot:amd64 (4:4.14.2-1), liblensfun0:amd64 (0.2.8-2), gir1.2-soup-2.4:amd64 (2.56.0-2+deb9u2), libavahi-client-dev:amd64 (0.6.32-2), libqt5serialport5:amd64 (5.7.1~20161021-2), libgegl-0.2-0:amd64 (0.2.0-7+b1), libnotify-bin:amd64 (0.7.7-2), kde-window-manager:amd64 (4:5.8.6-1), libibverbs1:amd64 (1.2.1-2), libavahi-common-dev:amd64 (0.6.32-2), libsmokeqtdbus4-3:amd64 (4:4.14.3-1.1), libplasmagenericshell4:amd64 (4:4.11.13-2), vlc-plugin-qt:amd64 (3.0.3-1-0+deb9u1), libgetopt-java:amd64 (1.0.14+dfsg-3), libespeak1:amd64 (1.48.04+dfsg-5+b1), espeak-data:amd64 (1.48.04+dfsg-5+b1), python-imaging:amd64 (4.0.0-4), freeglut3:amd64 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End-Date: 2019-01-06 18:52:51
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Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
Brute force approach:
To get to a prompt try pressing "e" with the Debian menu entry highlighted in GRUB then add systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the end of the line that starts with "linux" then press <Ctrl>+x to boot the modified entry.
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# apt install task-kde-desktop
deadbang
Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
From your log, it looks like a mixed system. kdm and plasma-containments-addons are not in stretch. You can try and reinstall a display manager, but why go to a lot of trouble for a frankendbian?
The current plasma dm in stretch is sddm I think. I use lightdm, it's ok with kde.
The current plasma dm in stretch is sddm I think. I use lightdm, it's ok with kde.
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Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
@bw123
I didn't know that. I prefer KDE/kdm and that's what I've been using for as long as I remember.
I didn't know that. I prefer KDE/kdm and that's what I've been using for as long as I remember.
Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
Tried that but didn't work (same screen hangs showing /dev/sda5: clean, NNN/MMM files, KKK/LLL blocks, as before)Head_on_a_Stick wrote: To get to a prompt try pressing "e" with the Debian menu entry highlighted in GRUB then add systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the end of the line that starts with "linux" then press <Ctrl>+x to boot the modified entry.
Re: Foolish use of apt autoremove
You might have to wait a long time for multi-user, because of network or something else. Try emergency, or single/maintenance mode. Look it up first online so you get the idea.
Maybe if you can get in, get to a prompt, get the network up, fix your sources.list and full or dist-upgrade it will boot but why bother? It'll alwasy be a frankendebian, save the data and reinstall.
Maybe if you can get in, get to a prompt, get the network up, fix your sources.list and full or dist-upgrade it will boot but why bother? It'll alwasy be a frankendebian, save the data and reinstall.
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