On 22/03/11 15:16, Steven Sciame wrote: > > I understand what you are saying, but nothing responds. The mouse > moves, but nothing is able to be clicked on. No menu's, windows, > nothing. I waited for 10 minutes and still nothing.
Depending on your system nice settings 10 minutes isn't very long. > Running from the > Terminal did not reveal anything. I couldn't ^C, right click, nothing. > > I am reluctant to do this because I am not sure if it is good to shut > the computer down that way(holding the power button until it goes > dead). I have to then reboot, watch all of the udev errors fly by > (sysfs no longer... use attr instead) And since the mouse pointer > doesn't work after a reboot, a suspend and wakeup is needed to get the > laptop back to where I can reasonably use it. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace? Ctrl+Alt+F2? SysReq/s? > > The contents of my sources.list are as follows > > steven@debtop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free > deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ squeeze main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main > > #Multimedia > deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ squeeze main non-free That'd be the most likely cause - IMHO it should always be commented out unless you specifically want a package from there. I'm guessing you have Totem set to use gstreamer as the backend - not sure if its requires w32 codecs as well. If you had the multimedia repository enabled when you upgraded to the last point release - it "might" be what broke your system (especially if you have ffmpeg and friends).... they can't be expected to instantly keep up with the main Debian releases. If it were me I'd (probably):- comment out multimedia.org in sources.list #apt-get update check what removing totem will do:- #apt-get -s remove totem | more if it looks like you're not going to lose your gui:- #apt-get -s remove totem > /root/list_of_what_will_be_removed (in case re-installing leaves some packages out) #apt-get install totem test on your example wmv If you use multimedia.org you should disable it before doing an system upgrade *unless* you have pinning setup > steven@debtop:/var/log$ dmesg | grep -i totem unlikely to be useful, this might work better (before the reboot, if you can get a vt):- dmesg | tail <snipped> > > This was fine before 6.0.1 Noted, also the lack of other people with a similar issue - which makes me wonder if it's somehow related to your mouse problem... > > > <snipped> > If the mouse moves, the system hasn't crashed - if you wait it will most > likely respond. Running top in a terminal window could be instructive. > <snipped>> > Do you have any other video players installed? VLC? Kaffeine? Dragon? > Mplayer etc? > <snipped> Cheers - I'll try and check back later this evening. -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d882d55.3070...@gmail.com
