LMDE BREAKAGES - tracking TESTING

[swordfish]

I'm running LMDE under VirtualBox and it reports being unable to load VirtualBox Guest Additions. StartX says it can't start because a server is already running and suggests deleting /tmp/.X0-lock, which does not appear to exist.

Unsurprisingly this appears to have been a VirtualBox issue, not a Linux Mint issue.

After reinstalling VirtualBox Guest Additions, I am up and running again.

[Gerd50]

Today's update came with the new package 'dnet-common'. While the installation i was asked

configure now
configure later
skip and leave config as it is

I was in experimental mood, choosed 'configure now', got a new Mac address for the network card and the connection was
interrupted. There was no way to reconfigure it, even a update hint said sth. like - if it's not working do a

dpkg-reconfigure dnet-common -

I reinstalled the LMDE partition with a backup, did the update again, choosing 'skip and leave config as it is'. My system is fine
now. I think, experiments with this package are not a good idea.

[nimbvs]

dnet-common victim here also .

Today's update brought this dnet-common along as a dependency of libdnet, which in turn was brought by libroar1. After the update my wireless network dropped. I tried to reinstall the wl module by following the how-to on the forum, but no success. I tried several reboots, wireless was still not working.

Then I looked closer at /var/log/aptitude and checked the bug reports for dnet-common. Sure enough there was one that's quite recent. This confirmed to me that indeed, dnet-common was the cause for my wireless network card not working.

After I uninstalled dnet-common, the wireless network started working again.

So, the moral of the story is: don't install dnet-common unless you know what you're doing (as stated in the above mentioned bug report).

[Gerd50]

Just another little thing with today's update. Owner of a Audigy Soundcard with emu10K1 chip on it will have an active
IEC958 Optical Raw. Result = no sound.

To fix it:

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gksu gedit /usr/share/alsa/pcm/iec958.conf

comment that line out with #

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pcm.!iec958 {

[zerozero]

Gerd and nimbvs,
tks for the report
not running any LMDE-testing atm (i guess this has to change soon ), so it's hard for me to follow this issues without your input;
will update the first post according

[dodjie60]

Re dnet-common upgrade today, I chance upon one post in identi.ca from @wintellect saying "dist-upgrade on !debian testing installed dnet-common which stopped Network Manager and resulted in no network. Had to "dpkg -P" to fix". Might help someone with the same problem.

I skipped the dpkg-reconfigure and this upgrade did not change any reconfiguration in my laptop.

[xircon]

Strange, I haven't had a dnet upgrade today, should I have?

[zerozero]

well, xircon, the question is, are you pointing to debian, incoming or latest? As Viking777 said elsewhere this now is confusing

[oooioiii]

- type "sudo dpkg -i xserver-common_2%3a1.10.2-1+wheezy1_all.deb"
- type "sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.10.2-1+wheezy1_i386.deb"

where can I download these .deb files?
I dont have them in my cache anymore...
can anyone upload them on rapidshare maybe?

thank you

[vincent]

http://snapshot.debian.org/ is your friend if you ever need to find specific versions of .deb packages. (However, ideally you'd use APT pinning to downgrade packages to the version you want.)

http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debi ... 1_i386.deb
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debi ... y1_all.deb

[oooioiii]

http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debi ... 1_i386.deb
http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debi ... y1_all.deb

hm, I found those, but they are not the same as xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.10.2-1+wheezy1_i386.deb
the "2:" is missing

see the difference:
xserver-xorg-core_2%3a1.10.2-1+wheezy1_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-core_1.10.2-1+wheezy1_i386.deb

thank you for your help

[xircon]

well, xircon, the question is, are you pointing to debian, incoming or latest? As Viking777 said elsewhere this now is confusing

I am pointing at incoming

Steve

[viking777]

Strange, I haven't had a dnet upgrade today, should I have?

I may be stating the obvious (I am famous for that ) but did you have it installed in the first place? It is certainly not on my system and I doubt if it is a default program. I just read two separate sites explaining what it does and I am still none the wiser

[xircon]

Yes, not installed on my system, just mild paranoia setting in . Any ideas when pack 3 is due? I noticed there are a lot of updates available (if I use the old repo settings).

Steve

[viking777]

Yes, not installed on my system, just mild paranoia setting in . Any ideas when pack 3 is due? I noticed there are a lot of updates available (if I use the old repo settings).

Steve

Confused again sorry. The old repo setting, which is what I use, is Debian Testing - it doesn't have 'Packs', you get the updates as and when they arrive. Only 'Incoming' and 'Latest' have 'packs', and as I don't use them I really don't know when the next one is due out.

[xircon]

What I meant is there is a lot of updates available that haven't been put into a package yet, so pack 3 must be due soon.

If I un-comment the old lines in my sources, then refresh, they show up in apt/mint update, last time I checked around 500mb worth. I did not install them, I just commented the lines out again and refreshed. I was looking to see if a particular package had been updated to solve a minor problem I was having.

Steve

[viking777]

If I un-comment the old lines in my sources, then refresh, they show up in apt/mint update, last time I checked around 500mb worth.

Got it in a nutshell - exactly why I don't use update packs. My system is up to date which is what a rolling release should always be. Thank you for confirming my suspicions (although I didn't realise it would be as much as 500Mb of a difference ), but sorry I don't know the correct answer to your question although the original intent was to release update packs once per month, so as as rough guide find out when you got the last one and add a month.

[xircon]

I swapped to the new system in an effort to be helpful

Using:

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# Testing
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
# Testing Security  http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/
deb http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

Which I keep commented, it has now gone up to +700mb

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[xircon]

Oh, monthly , thought that was for the "latest", not "incoming", must have misread the original post. Oh well think the last one was late July, going to stick with it though, the devs need feed back and it makes me feel useful

[zerozero]

ahh, now i see why such a big amount of updates xircon
you have KDE installed, and there was a v. upgrade.

As for the others questions, incoming and latest are frozen snapshots of the debian repos, so you got update pack 2 and until 3, there won't be more updates coming from debian.

This new system has its merits (just see the amount of stress it took out from this thread), but if you know what you're doing and can cope with the heat, yes, viking is right, tracking debian is much more fun.