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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, 29 September 2013, Terry Duell wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:00:15 +1000, Colin Fee <[email protected]> >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> > > > > -- > Colin Fee > [email protected] > -- Colin Fee [email protected]
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