On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Thorny <thorntreeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:17:29 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Thorny <thorntreeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:39:05 -0400, Michael Yang wrote: > >> > >> > After recent upgrade, my system becomes kind of mess up. > >> > > >> > My story is that I did a apt-get upgrade of some packages to > >> > squeeze/sid by accident(I didn't change the 'testing' in my > >> > source.list). So I downgrade most of packages back to dist lenny by > >> > pinning packages except the kernel (2.6.24 kernel) and few packages. > >> > Everything works well but the acpid. > >> > > >> > > >> Michael, it probably would have been better to have left this in the > >> other thread because it really is a continuation of your original > >> problem and that way, others could have the full story. Remember I > >> warned you that there were no guarantees with an APT pinning downgrade > >> from a mixed system. > >> > >> Because you had that mixed system and what you tried (downgrade) is not > >> really supported, this current problem could be related. > > > > > > Sorry about that, Thorny. I posted this as a separate thread because I > > thought it could be a different problem in lenny and I metioned what > > happened in my case. Actually everything works fine after I downgrading > > from my mixed system by pinning packages. Most of packages are > > downgraded to lenny version and few still remains in testing version. > > But the system is running very well without any problems. > > > > I have to admit that I did one more step after that. To get a pure lenny > > dist, I performed a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' which upgrades the kernel as > > well, from 2.6.24 to 2.6.26. That's when I found the problem of acpid. > > Then I went back to .24 kernel, the problem still exists. That's why I > > thought if it could be problems related to lenny dist. > > > > > Okay, I follow your logic. However, it's always best to give all the > information of what you did so anyone looking can have the whole picture > when they are speculating about what might have happened. > > Unfortunately, speculating is all I can do, I've never actually had to try > that downgrade process, I just know in theory it sometimes can work. I > expect it is somewhat dependent on the individual system, what software is > on it and how it is configured. > > When doing supported upgrades, new configuration files are updated to what > is needed for new versions but I doubt there is any mechanism to reverse > any of those changes. Thus, I don't have any idea if that might have > caused your problem. > > But, in theory, one is supposed to keep it pinned and upgrade (which is > actually downgrade) until the system is back tracking the pure release > version one wants. I have no idea if getting back to "most" of the > packages is sufficient. From what you stated, you still have some packages > at versions that aren't Lenny, are they at current Squeeze versions or are > they at some transitional stage from when they were in Lenny when it was > testing? (rhetorical question, don't need to answer here) I would argue > that your statement, "But the system is running very well without any > problems", isn't strictly correct, it isn't shutting down correctly, eh? > Shutdown works correctly on my Latitude with a pure Lenny system but it > is an older model laptop so that isn't definitive. > > I did a superficial google and there do seem to be some bugs reported with > Acpi and D630. Several seem to relate to a runaway condition, when your > system hangs do the fans go to full on, if so, you might want to search > more intensively to see if there is any solution short of un-installing > acpid, or figuring out anything about video driver. > > Hopefully, someone with a D630 will jump in here and tell if theirs is > working with Lenny. If I get any more ideas to try, I'll get back to this > thread. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Thanks very much for your advice. I'll try to get all packages to lenny version first and then start from the pure lenny system to check the problem.
