LMDE Repositories

[rdonnelly]

Just wondering, what is the latest list of repositories?

[zerozero]

Bob,
if you are following the default repos, there was no change at all

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free

but i probably should ask first what repos you are using?

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inxi -r

tells you what

[rdonnelly]

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Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
           deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/multimedia/ testing main non-free
           deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bimsebasse-cinnamonextras.list
           deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bimsebasse/cinnamonextras/ubuntu/ oneiric main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list
           deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main


How do they look? Updating is throwing out errors.

[killer de bug]

I don't like them at all

Why have you this on LMDE ? deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bimsebasse/cin ... as/ubuntu/ oneiric main

That's a ppa for ubuntu. Don't use it...

[zerozero]

Bob,
have you made any change in the sources.list file lately? or have you installed/updated mint-debian-mirrors along with the new mintupdate-debian?
what's the output of

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apt policy mintupdate-debian mint-debian-mirrors

the reason i ask this:
you have this

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/security/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/multimedia/ testing main non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free

and should have this

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.rts-informatique.fr/linuxmint/debian/latest/multimedia testing main non-free

- the 5th line wasn't changed to the new mirror and is a duplicate of the 2nd;
- on your 2nd, 3rd and 4th line is missing the word latest thus the repo is non-existent this way;

[rdonnelly]

I did an update and it changed my repository lines, so I put in the 4 lines you posted, and now I am getting 1586 updates. So far, so good.

[rdonnelly]

Bob,
have you made any change in the sources.list file lately? or have you installed/updated mint-debian-mirrors along with the new mintupdate-debian?
what's the output of

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apt policy mintupdate-debian mint-debian-mirrors

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mint-debian-mirrors:
  Installed: 2012.09.18
  Candidate: 2012.09.18
  Version table:
 *** 2012.09.18 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
mintupdate-debian:
  Installed: 1.0.6
  Candidate: 1.0.6
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.6 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


The update was going fine, then it stalled. I will run it again and see what the out put was.

Bob

[zerozero]

The update was going fine, then it stalled. I will run it again and see what the out put was.

Bob

just take some caution because the servers are still under heavy load and can break anytime; if you don't get a clean output don't do it today.

[rdonnelly]

Thanks Zero, I also had to do a

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sudo apt-get update

now it is progressing much better.

[rdonnelly]

I got it all installed and I could no longer start the desktop, it booted to command line. For now I restored the partition with Clonezilla, there must be something in that pack that is messing with the video that should be ignored? My specs are in my sig.

This poster ignored the xserver and other files, but I am not sure I would ignore the other files? viewtopic.php?f=187&t=109005&p=617784&hilit=xorg#wrap

Thanks Bob

[zombie]

I got it all installed and I could no longer start the desktop, it booted to command line. For now I restored the partition with Clonezilla, there must be something in that pack that is messing with the video that should be ignored? My specs are in my sig.

This poster ignored the xserver and other files, but I am not sure I would ignore the other files? viewtopic.php?f=187&t=109005&p=617784&hilit=xorg#wrap

Thanks Bob

I had the same problem after the update. Startx worked, so I ran

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm

. That fixed the problem.

[zerozero]

Bob your card is still supported and you should find the drivers for it in the repo; eventually you have to install and configure them before reboot.

[rdonnelly]

I got it all installed and I could no longer start the desktop, it booted to command line. For now I restored the partition with Clonezilla, there must be something in that pack that is messing with the video that should be ignored? My specs are in my sig.

This poster ignored the xserver and other files, but I am not sure I would ignore the other files? viewtopic.php?f=187&t=109005&p=617784&hilit=xorg#wrap

Thanks Bob

I had the same problem after the update. Startx worked, so I ran

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm

. That fixed the problem.

You did that from command line when the GUI would not load?

[zombie]

I got it all installed and I could no longer start the desktop, it booted to command line. For now I restored the partition with Clonezilla, there must be something in that pack that is messing with the video that should be ignored? My specs are in my sig.

This poster ignored the xserver and other files, but I am not sure I would ignore the other files? viewtopic.php?f=187&t=109005&p=617784&hilit=xorg#wrap

Thanks Bob

I had the same problem after the update. Startx worked, so I ran

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm

. That fixed the problem.

You did that from command line when the GUI would not load?

Yes. Actually I logged in as root and ran the command without sudo. After that the computer booted to the mdm login screen.

[rdonnelly]

I got it installed, now the terminal will not take any input, and all the dialog boxes look kind of dated?

[melbo]

Make sure you run the post-upgrade tweaks:
http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/update-pack.html

You may also want to run dist-upgrade rather than upgrade when moving to a new update pack.

[rdonnelly]

Make sure you run the post-upgrade tweaks:
http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/update-pack.html

You may also want to run dist-upgrade rather than upgrade when moving to a new update pack.

I installed Mint meta mate, but terminal still NG. Should I run dist-upgrade from a reboot recovery mode? I can not longer use the gui terminal.

[Monsta]

Have you used Mint-X-Metal theme before? Because your issue looks just like this one.

[rdonnelly]

Have you used Mint-X-Metal theme before? Because your issue looks just like this one.

Thanks Monsta, that was an easy fix!