LMDE BREAKAGES - (Tracking SID!) -{CLOSED}

[craigevil]

without holding perl
54 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 218 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
The 218 that would be removed including most of kde. So not gonna happen.

with 'perl' held
56 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

No issues here after updating and installing the 3.1 kernel.

[Brian49]

Things have improved somewhat here since yesterday - twelve perl-related packages are now being offered on dist-upgrade, and only eight packages are being threatened with removal, none of which look system-critical. Perhaps in another day or two it will be safe to go ahead.

[Gerd50]

karashata wrote:

@Gerd50: not sure why gconf2 would be broken unless you're using only SID and some other related packages' experimental versions haven't made it into unstable along with the gconf updates.

Yesterday apt-listbugs told me serious error gconf2 unsolved. That's why i thought gconf was the culprit for the removed packages.
Well, today the perl stuff only wanted to remove gtkorphan and qt4-fsarchiver.

[hinto]

OK..
So I did an update, without reading the fine print and Xorg got removed (on LMDE). So I took the opportunity to change "testing" to "unstable", did a dist-upgrade and installed xfce. Did I miss anything? Is there a more current XFCE/LMDE mint package than version 11?.

As a side note, vmplayer 4 doesn't like the new Liquorix kernel. I had to back off the new kernel.
-Hinto

[jlsmith722]

Definite improvement today. Got through an upgrade and dist-upgrade this evening with only a few packages removed, none that looked critical. I now have the new kernel and nothing appears to be broken.

Jim

[hinto]

@jlsmith722 What are you tracking?
-H

[mockturtl]

.
Chromium browser in SID is broken!

look here:
http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphp ... 2cda1d3b57

If you use Chromium, wait till it is fixed.

I see google-chrome-unstable (dev channel) crashing immediately on startup, on i386/wheezy and amd64/incoming. (Apologies for putting this in the sid forum, but I think it's relevant.)

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
$ google-chrome --version
Google Chrome 17.0.932.0 dev
$ google-chrome
[16897:16911:540947239534:FATAL:plugin_service.cc(73)] Check failed: false. Plugin loading should happen out-of-process.

It's already patched, so hopefully they'll make another release soon.

Yes, I saw the same.
Chrome 17 crashed on boot, downgraded to Chrome 16
(and as previously reported)
Chromium 15, downgraded to Chromium 14.

Fixed in latest release (Google Chrome 17.0.938.0 dev).

[Brian49]

Success at last here this morning - sixteen perl-related packages upgraded and no packages removed. No backlash so far.

[jlsmith722]

Hinto:
I am tracking Sid. I have both Gnome-shell and fallback working fine. Also XFCE taht I installed on top of the Gnome stuff is working with no problems.
that is as of 11/16/11 @ 0530

[hinto]

@jlsmith722 great! i'll fix up gnome today.
-H

[hinto]

Nothing is ever as easy as it seems... I just got thumped back to newbie status when I took the gnome3 update.
It seems that for now, I have to be content with xfce, and the nouveau drivers (I was running gome/nvidia).

Additionally. I'm missing some things like:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure

won't work (can't find dpkg-reconfigure)

but if I use su, then dpkg-reconfigure, it will.

What did I goof up there?

-Hinto

[wayne128]

Nothing is ever as easy as it seems... I just got thumped back to newbie status when I took the gnome3 update.
It seems that for now, I have to be content with xfce, and the nouveau drivers (I was running gome/nvidia).

Additionally. I'm missing some things like:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure

won't work (can't find dpkg-reconfigure)

but if I use su, then dpkg-reconfigure, it will.

What did I goof up there?

-Hinto

try lmde32g ~ # dpkg-reconfigure -a

[wayne128]

d.u. my LMDE-32bit-gnome
fully d.u., no issue on perl, it appears settled

lmde32g ~ # apt-cache policy perl
perl:
Installed: 5.14.2-4
Candidate: 5.14.2-4
Version table:
*** 5.14.2-4 0
500 http://ftp.jp.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
lmde32g ~ # uname -a
Linux lmde32g 3.1.0-1-686-pae #1 SMP Mon Nov 14 08:24:20 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

lmde32g ~ # apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[craigevil]

fully d-u here no issues, nothing being held.
My d-u today : 75 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

$ apt-cache policy perl
perl:
Installed: 5.14.2-4
Candidate: 5.14.2-4
Version table:
*** 5.14.2-4 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[jlsmith722]

I am still having problems with the perl update.[/code]jim@jim's-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade

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[sudo] password for jim:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libperl5.14 perl perl-base perl-modules
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/9,366 kB of archives.
After this operation, 958 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
serious bugs of perl (5.14.2-3 -> 5.14.2-4) <unfixed>
#648954 - perl: add Breaks on doc-base with fix for #648937
Summary:
perl(1 bug)
Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]n

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Is the bug only affecting the AMD 64 architecture?'
will hold off a while I guess.

[GeneC]

jl

I saw the bug report and decided to ignore it.

All seems fine.

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gene@zordon ~ $ apt-cache policy perl
perl:
  Installed: 5.12.4-6
  Candidate: 5.12.4-6
  Version table:
 *** 5.12.4-6 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gene@zordon ~ $


[timh]

Good Day

perhaps someone can give me advice

1.)
the bash-completion is not working well with sudo in Gnome-Shell terminals.
(without sudo also)

If I loged in tty3 its working as usual.

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tim@lmde:~$ apt-cache policy bash-completion
bash-completion:
  Installiert: 1:1.3-1
  Kandidat:    1:1.3-1
  Versionstabelle:
 *** 1:1.3-1 0
        700 http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status


2.)
Gnome login window has no font only this: [] [] [] [] & how I can change the background image?
I tried some links but no luck

3.)
If I start the new kernel 3.1 Nvidia is not working - no X. I tried nvidia-settings but get the error no display found.

Number 2.) is really awful

[gcp]

Good Day

perhaps someone can give me advice

2.)
Gnome login window has no font only this: [] [] [] [] & how I can change the background image?
I tried some links but no luck

3.)
If I start the new kernel 3.1 Nvidia is not working - no X. I tried nvidia-settings but get the error no display found.

Number 2.) is really awful

2) the working direct way to change the gdm3 Wallpaper
as root go to /usr/share/gdm/greeter-config and change the file contents directly.

10_desktop-base:
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg

20_debian:
# Use a specific background
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_options stretched

these settings may be overwritten by a gdm3 update.
you may want to use another path to a picture...
there are other config files in /etc/gdm3 , but i dont get it working.
the font mismatch may be solved by an full reinstall of the gdm3 package. Do NOT logoff or reboot between!

3)
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf try these settings:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreABI" "true"
EndSection
you dont need this if you update your nvidia-drivers to the newest version in the experimental repo (NVIDIA 290.06).

[GeneC]

2) the working direct way to change the gdm3 Wallpaper
as root go to /usr/share/gdm/greeter-config and change the file contents directly.

10_desktop-base:
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg

20_debian:
# Use a specific background
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_options stretched

these settings may be overwritten by a gdm3 update.
you may want to use another path to a picture...
there are other config files in /etc/gdm3 , but i dont get it working.

Hey gcp

I dont believe this is the correct path if using Gnome 3 shell.
With the upgrade to Gnome 3 shell a while back, the login screen background changed from the default gray linuxmint one to a blue stripped 'Fedora' one?

My /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg still points to the mint one, but the blue one shows up.

Any ideas?

[timh]

2) the working direct way to change the gdm3 Wallpaper
as root go to /usr/share/gdm/greeter-config and change the file contents directly.

10_desktop-base:
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg

20_debian:
# Use a specific background
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg
/desktop/gnome/background/picture_options stretched

these settings may be overwritten by a gdm3 update.
you may want to use another path to a picture...
there are other config files in /etc/gdm3 , but i dont get it working.
the font mismatch may be solved by an full reinstall of the gdm3 package. Do NOT logoff or reboot between!

3)
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf try these settings:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "IgnoreABI" "true"
EndSection
you dont need this if you update your nvidia-drivers to the newest version in the experimental repo (NVIDIA 290.06).

Thanxalot
I try to put one of my images into

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/usr/share/images/desktop-base

and change it with Inkscape to login-background.svg
This works and also the NVIDIA Kernel issue. I do it like you said and installed the new driver.

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tim@lmde:~$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms/experimental

Now my lmde 3.1.0-1-amd64 is working
Will try now the gdm3 reinstall, perhaps then my font and with luck the bash-completion issue is gone

Thank you for your help
cheers