LMDE BREAKAGES - tracking TESTING

[Paco]

yes, and we must know when it is safe to do the "jump"...

[tjcravey]

I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

[clem]

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781

[kruijf]

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1781

Post it on our Mint.nl blog en retweet it on twitter thanks clem.

Any one has a solution for my flash/youtube problem?
Video is giving lag and sounds stil go one.

[t3g]

I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

Just remember the country you are in for better speed. For example, US people may benefit more from it being
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

[kmb42vt]

Just remember the country you are in for better speed. For example, US people may benefit more from it being
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

I'll second that one and add that it's always good to choose a mirror for downloading updates rather than the actual Debian servers since those servers are always under a heavy load. There's a whole lot more distros based on Debian stable, testing and unstable that are hauling down updates than just LMDE.

[mockturtl]

re: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 74#p442574

Hi guys,
like some of you, the latest updates broke my shinny LMDE, because I was using Nvidia proprietary drivers, and was too stupid to notice that the update was going to remove them!

Hey, who you callin' stupid?!

Thanks Lewdsquirrel and gazza! The script brought my desktop right back. (reader note: amd64 only! Achtung! Cuidado!)

I made sure I was completely up-to-date with the debian-wheezy repos before running the fix. Now I've switched sources.list to the new lmde-incoming repo... and apt wants to remove my nvidia drivers again?

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
...
#MINT-SNAPSHOT
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/incoming testing main contrib non-free
...
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade 
...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgl1-nvidia-alternatives libgl1-nvidia-glx nvidia-glx
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libgl1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa mesa-common-dev
  xserver-common xserver-xorg-core

Is this expected? Won't I be hosed again if I proceed?

edit: yes, of course removing nvidia packages breaks the desktop again... I guess I need to wait for dependencies to catch up

edit: impatience got the better of me, I pulled nvidia-glx 275.09.07-4 from sid and upgraded to libgl1-mesa 7.10.3-3... looking good now

[nykur]

I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

Thanks! Makes perfect sense and works like a charm:-) (And this is even easier of course if one leaves the unstable / experimental repos in pinned way down. Then apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx does the trick without even entering an editor:-)

[roger64]

About exim4-base and libgnutls26

This morning, I wanted to update some packages (see screenshot below) but I have been warned by apt-listbugs of a potential serious bug and I cancelled it without checking further. It seems if I understand properly (not sure) it concerns libgnutls26.
Here is a copy of my terminal window (in French, nobody is perfect )

One line means: Serious bug on exim4-base (-> 4.76-2) uncorrected. The bug is numbered #619439
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619439

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Lecture des champs des paquets... Fait
Lecture de l'état des paquets... Fait 
Récupération des rapports de bogue... Fait  
Analyse des informations Trouvé/Corrigé... Fait  
Bogues de gravité grave sur exim4-base (-> 4.76-2) <non corrigé>
 #619439 - Please do _not_ distribute gnutls-params in the package
Résumé :
 exim4-base(1 bogue)
Êtes-vous certain de vouloir installer/mettre à jour les paquets ci-dessus ? [Y/n/?/...] n
*******************************************************************
****** Sortie en erreur forcée pour stopper l'installation. ******
*******************************************************************
E: Le sous-processus /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 a renvoyé un code d'erreur (10)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10
Échec de l'installation d'un paquet. Tentative de récupération :

Here is my proposed update from Mint repository.

[xircon]

Similar problem, not sure how to proceed.

[ther]

Worked brilliantly! Many thanks!

I was able to fix this by temporarily changing from testing to unstable in sources.list, installing nvidia-glx and all dependencies, and then reverting back from unstable to testing. Everything seems to be working great. Did a clean and update and everything still shows up to date and I'm not asked to remove anything that was installed from unstable.

Here's how I did it:

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
save and quit.

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx

sudo vim /etc/apt/source.list (sub vim with the editor of your choice)
find this line: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
change it to: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
save and quit

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo reboot

[gozer]

a shorter way to install the nvidia-glx package from sid (don't have to edit/re-edit sources.list):

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sudo apt-get install -t sid nvidia-glx

[EmyrB]

I know this is kinda like asking how long is a piece of string, but I noticed that this thread started back in March, but any ideas when we can safely do updates without it removing the nvidia drivers?

Cheers

EmyrB

[zerozero]

EmyrB, nvidia isn't broken since march it broke 4 days ago, and i believe that any day now it will be rebuilt against the new mesa/xorg

[GeneC]

this probably is out of the scoop of the incoming repo but a

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sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx

has been reported several times to work

I can confirm that this does work when the "Debian testing" repo is temporarily changed to "unstable" in the sources list and installed as zerozero states. In fact it's the "nvidia-glx" package in the "debian testing" as well as the new Mint "latest" and "incoming" repositories that fails due to it's dependency on "libgl1-nvidia-glx" which is currently the wrong version. Installing/updating "nvidia-glx" from "ustable" repo installs the updated library as well as other dependencies. I don't have the version number of "libgl1-nvidia-glx" from "testing" that failed but the version installed from "unstable" is 275.09.07-4.

I have tried this an it doesn't work for me.

I currently have the 64 bit Nvidia 275.09.07-1 driver installed and functioning properly.
I see the Nvidia 275.09.07-4 sitting there in the SID repo.

I run the command and get:

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gene@zordon ~ $ sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-glx is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.

gene@zordon ~ $ 

Also, if I manually change my sources list to point to sid, and search Nvidia only the 275.09.07-1 driver show up, the 275.09.07-4 driver is nowhere to be seen (though its clearly there in the repo).
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/nvidia-glx

Am I doing something wrong?

I have all updates except


I did do the "xserver-common (2:1.10.2-1+wheezy1) to 2:1.10.2-2" update 2 days back, which I see as the only thing different than the rest.
Anyone have any ideas on how I can update to 275.09.07-4?
OR< is it that I have to upgrade Mesa FIRST, break Nvidia then try to get the new driver?

Thanks

[zerozero]

Gene, try

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx

of course above you swap unstable with sid according to the sources.list

[EmyrB]

EmyrB, nvidia isn't broken since march it broke 4 days ago, and i believe that any day now it will be rebuilt against the new mesa/xorg

Thanks for the quick reply, but I didn't mean to sound that the nvidia drivers were broken since march, but the thread had been started back in March.

Anyway good news as I really don't want to go through the hoops again, just to get where I am now

Cheers

EmyrB

[GeneC]

Gene, try

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t unstable nvidia-glx

of course above you swap unstable with sid according to the sources.list

Thanks for the help "zz", but no go...

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gene@zordon ~ $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -t sid nvidia-glx
[sudo] password for gene: 
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates InRelease                       
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main amd64 Packages             
Hit http://liquorix.net sid InRelease                                          
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian InRelease                             
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing InRelease                         
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing InRelease                                    
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib amd64 Packages          
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free amd64 Packages         
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib TranslationIndex        
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main TranslationIndex           
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free TranslationIndex       
Hit http://liquorix.net sid/main amd64 Packages                                
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg [198 B]                 
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg                       
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main TranslationIndex                              
Get:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release [12.1 kB]                   
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex                
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release                           
Get:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Sources [9,398 B]              
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib amd64 Packages/DiffIndex             
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex            
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib TranslationIndex                     
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex     
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main TranslationIndex                        
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex                    
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free amd64 Packages/DiffIndex 
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main TranslationIndex             
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free TranslationIndex         
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Sources [773 B]            
Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Sources [2,590 B]            
Get:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main amd64 Packages [8,634 B]       
Get:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream amd64 Packages [5,192 B]   
Get:8 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import amd64 Packages [19.1 kB]     
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import TranslationIndex               
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main TranslationIndex                 
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream TranslationIndex             
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US       
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en          
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en_US          
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main Translation-en             
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en_US                             
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US      
Ign http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free Translation-en         
Ign http://liquorix.net sid/main Translation-en                                
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en_US            
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en_US                    
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main Translation-en               
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US        
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en                       
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free Translation-en           
Ign http://ftp.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en                      
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en_US              
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import Translation-en                 
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en_US                
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main Translation-en                   
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en_US            
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream Translation-en               
Fetched 58.0 kB in 8s (7,040 B/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
nvidia-glx is already the newest version.

gene@zordon ~ $ 

I even tried "unstable". Same thing.
"...nvidia-glx is already the newest version..."
I'll post 'IF" I find a solution.

[zerozero]

Gene i think i saw the problem
try this way, add this to your sources.list

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deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

and then do as i posted above

[GeneC]

Gene i think i saw the problem
try this way, add this to your sources.list

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deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

and then do as i posted above

Thanks! That worked beautifully.
New driver upated.
All mesa updated without removing anything.
All is well in LMDE land again....

Thanks to the help of a kind and knowledgeable soul!