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Any suggestions based on these error messages? I get the same results when using the -f flag.
I didn't read the older posts but did you run
apt-get -f install
?
or else run
aptitude full-upgrade
instead of apt-get and it should offer you some solutions
(note that those errors during upgrading may be due to you having some package(s) on hold, make sure everything is 'normal')
apt-get -f install gave the same errors as apt-get dist-upgrade and apt-get -f dist-upgrade
aptitude full-upgrade seems to offer a solution. It produced hundreds of lines of output and asked me if I would like to proceed. Before I proceed, could you please verify that my sources.list file looks ok?
According to this guide, testing does not receive security updates. I interpret this to mean that the following line should be omitted:
deb http://security.debian.org/ <version>/updates main contrib non-free
Also, the squeeze-updates / wheezy-updates line ("volatile") must be omitted? Thank you.
Thanks. After issuing those commands, I was told that dependency based boot sequencing was in effect. But after rebooting the computer, nothing happened. Is there something else I could try?
Did you search this forum for similar situations (no keyboard response)?
I think other people had this kind of problems.
The only time I think I had something similar (I use sid since the installation) was when udev had a bug and we had to delete /run, but that was quite a while ago and udev has been upgraded a lot since then.
If it's something related with the video driver, you could try appending nomodeset to GRUB's boot line but then it's better if you say (if you didn't already) something about the hardware.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting parameters of disc: (none).
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting preliminary keymap...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Activating swap...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: /dev/sda5: clean, 324118/3055616 files, 4060080/12206848 blocks
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Loading kernel modules...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Activating lvm and md swap...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Mounting local filesystems...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Activating swapfile swap...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Cleaning up temporary files....
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting kernel variables ...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Cleaning up ifupdown....
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting up networking....
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Configuring network interfaces...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting portmap daemon....
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Cleaning up temporary files....
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting up ALSA...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting console screen modes.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: ^[[9;30]^[[14;30]Skipping font and keymap setup (handled by console-setup).
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting up console font and keymap...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Setting sensors limits.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel 2.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting portmap daemon...Already running..
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Enabling additional executable binary formats: binfmt-support.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Enabling power management...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: PulseAudio configured for per-user sessions ... ^[[33m(warning).^[[39;49m
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting anac(h)ronistic cron: anacron.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting system message bus: dbus.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Loading cpufreq kernel modules...done (acpi-cpufreq).
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: CPUFreq Utilities: Setting ondemand CPUFreq governor...CPU0...CPU1...CPU2...CPU3...done.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting network connection manager: NetworkManager.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: Starting bluetooth: bluetoothd.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:25 2012: saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned
Tue Jan 31 17:37:26 2012: Starting MTA: exim4.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:26 2012: Starting ACPI services....
Tue Jan 31 17:37:26 2012: Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.
Tue Jan 31 17:37:26 2012: Starting acpi_fakekey daemon...done.
Everything seems to be ok. There are some other messages that didn't get logged. I will copy these down manually by pausing the output. I will also try manually starting GNOME by issuing sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start. Please let me know if there are any other suggestions on how to get out of the console.
modprobe: module unix not found in modules.dep
INIT: version 2.88 booting
Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S.
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated... [ 4.085842] [drm:ironlake_update_pch_refclk] *ERROR* enabling SSC on PCH
I wonder if your upgrade removed a pile of stuff such as GDM. Try startx.
If I'm right - and there's no reason why I should be - you could treat this as a minimal install and start installing packages or meta-packages one at a time to see what builds up. Start with the kernel linux-image-3.1.0-1. Boot and make sure it works. Then xorg. Test it. Then your desktop or window manager. Again, test it. Assuming that your sources are good I would expect Apt to sort out the pieces.
Thanks Bulkley -- startx worked! How to I instruct the GUI to start by default?
Earlier, I issued the command update-rc.d gdm3 disable in order to enter single user mode, so this may be the reason the GUI is not starting by default. I have tried reversing this command with update-rc.d gdm3 enable and update-rc.d gdm3 defaults, and these commands indicate to me that dependent boot sequencing is in effect, but I still have nothing but a console on reboot.
apt-get because aptitude will remove the (many) rdepends as well, apt-get will wait for an autoremove command.
--purge removes the config & aptitude will reinstall it as standard.
Check man apt-get if you like, as again this is all from memory and the apt-get syntax may have changed since last I took notice.
`service gdm3 start` had no effect, but thanks for the suggestion
dilbert:
`apt-get remove --purge gdm3` -- after a reboot, I could still run GNOME by typing `startx` on boot (confused). I will run aptitude install gdm3 anyways.. thanks
That is expected, gdm3 is the display manager, that (among other things) gives a graphical login box, then starts the window manager (similar to you typing startx).
It is not required to have a DM to run a gui environment, but most find it convenient.
edit: nice!
lesson to learn from this: make sure your system is in a coherent state and sources are set appropriately BEFORE doing a dist-upgrade
... in fact I think it even says that in the instructions ...
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