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Something significant has changed with latest initramfs-tools version (0.113) as any new kernel compile fails to load: "Gave up waiting for root device ... ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/<correct UUID>... does not exist" ..dropped to busybox. this is the very same root device that mounts with no problem o...

damnit, sorry, everywhere i've got "308" up there for the new version please replace it with "304.88"

hullo Experts and kindly Linux Mint folks, This is a linux/graphics-driver story with no good proper resolution in its end; but i felt i should get it down somewhere if anyone else is similarly afflicted. Yesterday 10Apr2013 an apt-get dist-upgrade brought a upgrade to my system of ~11 nvidia driver...

I've been searching for more than a year for a solid clue as to what is causing my random desktop freezes. Nothing in system logs, no "panic" messages, have to hit reset. It always occurs just as a mouse selection or mouse motion or screen change. (naturally one tends to be in a browser when this ha...

if this is directed at me: Have you installed meta mate and meta cinnamon? (who was moaning about a sudden download of libmate stuff (and which reminds me of a sudden download of a bunch of "mono" libraries)) then no, i have no cinnamon nor meta-cinnamon installed. i've no idea what dependency trigg...

If i'm happily on mint Xfce do i even want these substantial mate libraries? that is, isn't "mate" ((development folks: please pick names that aren't common nouns)) yet another desktop ('environment')? thankee.

I had this problem with LMDE and using snypatic to uninstall mint-search-addon required to uninstall mint-meta-common ( I think). Anyway, uninstalling it and then re-installing them both packages helped out of the situation. Then after upgrad over console everything was fine and "dpkg: Fehler beim ...

resolution of my zombie libavcodec52 problem (which kept insisting to be part of an dist-upgrade that it couldn't complete - "..have been kept back") the solution was that libmjpegtools-1.9, of all things, had its toe on a libavcodec52 dependency which i managed to miss. soo... finally a mere: sudo ...

System: Host aragog Kernel 3.3.0-jwg021 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Xfce Edition Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.or...

Here's my libavcodec52 conundrum ((64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Xfce Edition), i see this for the first time following a dist-upgrade (19may2012): The following packages have been kept back: libavcodec52 so what's the problem?: >sudo apt-get install libavcodec52 ... The following packages have unmet de...

Sorry about the "me too" without much additional insight but just like user 'Lippy' i am also seeing: startpar: service(s) returned failure: live-config ... failed! during boot-up. None of the google searches for the same error message are matching up, (there is no "grep -v" always returning exit 0 ...

too much mono stuff all at once. makes me feel sullied and unusual... The following NEW packages will be installed: libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.0-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil li...

I also suffer from the This software is considered Deprecated Please consider to switch to btrfs utilities boot-up warning problem yet have no btrfs partitions. So here are a few small hints that probably are probably bloody obvious to others than me - but one never knows where these clues might lea...

confirm. comment out "deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import" out in /etc/apt/sources.list then apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade and all the held-backs go away. then after restoring the commented-out the line, reboot, update, dist-upgrade (nothing to upgrade) and still ...

what happens if you do a full-upgrade? what pkgs are waiting to be updated? safe-upgrade is not the way to go with a rolling release, at least not as a rule. does "apt-get dist-upgrade" amount to a "full-upgrade"? because that's what i did and ended up like the rest of these poor souls. the pkgs th...

I fought the gdm3 flashing screen dragon (linux Mint Xfce) for two days. at last i won. here are my insights/mumblings. I apparently had downloaded and activated the nvidia proprietary drivers (i have a geforce gt 440); i now believe that this was prime mistake. after fighting all manner of "apt-get...