Not sure wha the overall cuse was but I now have a working laptop again with LMDE fully up to date. I used the method as outlined by Craig however I had to battle with the b......y firewire controller first. Seems there's abug in the earlier kernels that causes the system to halt obn boot from live cd/usb when it attempts to active the firewire in this case via firewire_ohci. Despite you telling it to blacklist the module it ignores it and attempts to start it anyway at which point the boot process hangs. I eventually got to a working system using parted magic off the UBCD. Was then able to chroot into the broken system with network available and complete the update. It took an apt-get -f install followed by teo more apt-get update/upgrade rounds. On 29 September 2013 20:50, Colin Fee <tfeccles@gmail.com> wrote:
So that was a big fat failure but not in the same way as Terry's. I left it unattended as it processed, after providing some necessary answers. When I returned to check on process the Update Manager had halted saying processing was stopped due to too many errors. Investigating now.
On 29 September 2013 17:13, Colin Fee <tfeccles@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, 29 September 2013, Terry Duell wrote:
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:00:15 +1000, Colin Fee <tfeccles@gmail.com> wrote:
Terry is using LMDE - Linux Mint Debian Edition. From the LM website LMDE is:
- ...a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing. - It’s available in both 32 and 64-bit as a live DVD with MATE or Cinnamon. - The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.
As it happens I'm sending this from a laptop with LMDE on awaiting a number of updates, inc grup-pc but also update to the latest release, UP7. I see in the release notes that it says do not do any updates until you've upgraded the Update Pack to version 7, then do package updates.
Yes, I'm using LMDE, and simply followed the advice of the system which said "updates available...etc". It would seem that I need to be more careful. So, does this imply that my system is all bu##ered up, and there is no way out? Not sure if it's possible to update the system now, from a live distro boot and a chroot.
Having rechecked the perquisites for the update, I've just kicked off the update on my laptop. I'll see if I have the same issues. Fingers crossed.
The two main points the release notes made were one that the you needed to be pointed to a mirror that is at the UP7 level and two that when you check the Update Pack Info section of the update manager that it shows green i.e. no errors. Mine was all good some set it off.
They also say I the FAQ that you'll be asked to install grub during the update which by default will install to /dev/sda.
-- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com
-- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com
-- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com