LMDE BREAKAGES - tracking TESTING

[viking777]

It isn't really causing me that many headaches Gene, it is just that I don't like having packages on hold all the time. I hope a solution is found to this before it is released into 'latest' though, because if it gets into that it is going to cause real wailing and gnashing of teeth

As for the new Nvidia driver I have already tested it and that doesn't solve the problem either, at least not the 'pre-release' version that I used.

[Mister.T]

Are there any time estimates when update pack 3 will be ready for us Nvidia users general consumption .

I am asking as one of my most important apps does not seem to work correctly in my squeeze set up.

[xircon]

More mesa/glx stuff in today's updates, mintupdate again wants to remove fglrx. Going to play the waiting game

[Roken]

@xircon: It's not a Mint specific issue. I've been holding back xorg updates on Debian for the past week owing to the threat of removal of fglrx. If I'm honest, I'm not expecting a fix on this any time soon, either.

[xircon]

@xircon: It's not a Mint specific issue. I've been holding back xorg updates on Debian for the past week owing to the threat of removal of fglrx. If I'm honest, I'm not expecting a fix on this any time soon, either.

No, realise that, been trying to use mintupdate where ever possible, all feed back helps.

[zerozero]

i'm not usually pessimist (actually i have a very optimistic approach), but to be really honest i can't see how all this xorg1.11/nvidia/ATI mess will finish

[xircon]

Badly

[zerozero]

Badly

oh cheers for the support

[viking777]

I had another go with the latest 285.05.09 Nvidia driver, and it is absolutely fine, as long as it is matched with the 1.10.4 xorg driver. (In fact I am using it now). But as soon as you introduce the 1.11 xorg to it then it all goes wrong. I noticed the lag with gthumb as usual, but then I thought well, perhaps this is a problem with gthumb, not xorg, because most other programs don't cause the excessive cpu usage that gthumb does. So then I started to look through other programs that might confirm things one way or another. GeneC's post from the last page gave me a good clue, in that he said that glxgears worked for him, well I can only tell you it doesn't work for me. It just gave some spurious error message that Bletchley Park would never decode, and refused to run. It was the same with nvidia-settings. It launched OK, but as soon as you tried to access any of its settings, it just shut down. The other thing I noticed was that inxi said that glx information was 'unavailable' or words to that effect. I deleted xorg 1.11, replaced it with 1.10.4 (which incidentally is probably in your apt cache file if you want to carry out similar experiments) and everything is back to normal again even with the latest Nvidia driver. I freely admit I don't know that much about it, but I think this is a problem with the xorg driver not with Nvidia.

[Mister.T]

If this serious problem showed up in "testing " then why on earth was the update shoved through to the"latest" repo. Please Clem and co, hold back all dodgy updates until they don't break something.

[xircon]

If this serious problem showed up in "testing " then why on earth was the update shoved through to the"latest" repo. Please Clem and co, hold back all dodgy updates until they don't break something.

This problem occurs in testing and testing only, it is also post update pack 3. Running latest or incoming you will not be affected by this error.

Steve

[viking777]

then why on earth was the update shoved through to the"latest" repo

It wasn't/hasn't been (yet).

[Mister.T]

That's funny as the other day I ran update pack 3 from my "Latest" pointing repositories and that update broke my system.

Must have imagined that one then.

[zerozero]

Mister.T,
if you have an issue with Update-Pack3, please open a separate topic and i for one will be the first to try to help you (if i can)
Thank you very much.

[Mister.T]

Sorry zerozero, but i had asumed that this was the correct thread with regard to lmde breakages .

Please forgive my ignorance. I am but a humble user. I have just found it a little frustrating that both update packs 1 and 3 have broken my system.

Also viking777, no offence meant by previous post.

[zerozero]

Mister.T
the only problem is, that, in here your problems will get lost and assistance will be less effective

LMDE BREAKAGES - tracking Testing

is the topic's name, so we are dealing with a different beast

[Mister.T]

Thank you.

[narendra.d]

I have had this application called "childsplay" for long. However the last few updates/upgrades seem to have broken something and the application doesn't start. Reinstalling the application and dependencies doesn't help.
I am on Testing repos, hence posting here. No additional repos are added and no non standard changes have been made to my AMD64 system.
I tried thru the command line and this is what i get:

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narendra@diwate ~ $ childsplay
2011-10-06 22:10:01,678 - schoolsplay.SPDataManager - ERROR - No sqlalchemy package found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/childsplay_sp/SPDataManager.py", line 41, in <module>
    import sqlalchemy.exceptions as sqlae
ImportError: No module named exceptions
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/games/childsplay", line 118, in <module>
    import childsplay_sp.SPMainCore as SPMainCore
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/childsplay_sp/SPMainCore.py", line 59, in <module>
    import SPDataManager as SPDataManager
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/childsplay_sp/SPDataManager.py", line 45, in <module>
    raise Exception
Exception


I do have the python-sqlalchemy package installed.
Now , how do i resolve this?

Thanks for reading this and Any help will be gratefully received.

[xircon]

***WARNING*** Python 2.7.2-7 has hit the repos, lots of breakages, including mintupdate. Managed to selectively up date some odds and ends.

[zerozero]

tks for the warning xircon
i've been in incoming (xfce) but i'm going right now check the damages

edit: this is my output

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Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  aptdaemon mintinstall python-aptdaemon
The following packages will be upgraded:
  deskbar-applet hpijs libbrlapi0.5 libhpmud0 libimobiledevice2 liblcms1
  libplist1 libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc
  libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-emailmerge
  libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-impress
  libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-math libreoffice-style-galaxy
  libreoffice-style-tango libreoffice-writer openoffice.org-base
  openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-draw
  openoffice.org-emailmerge openoffice.org-gnome openoffice.org-gtk
  openoffice.org-impress openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-math
  openoffice.org-style-tango openoffice.org-writer python python-brlapi
  python-minimal python-uno ttf-opensymbol uno-libs3 ure
41 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Abort.

gonna check in synaptic what's going on