Bug#763148: Prevent migration to jessie

2014-10-06 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Oct05:2254+0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Also, the re-evaluation happened. It however didn't had the outcome > you wanted (basically because the web browser needs so many security > updates which only could be done by backporting all of it that the > embedded copy doesn't make any difference -

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-24 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep24:1424-0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > Maybe I should be a full-time tester--I seem to be pretty > good at it. I built another vm from the D-I beta, > pointed sources.list at sid, and ran aptitude update, > all as before. This time, though, I held all updates > whi

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-24 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep24:1951+0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 24.09.2014 um 18:45 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > Craig was so kind and provided me with access to the VM images. > > > > With that image I was able to reproduce the upgrade failure. > > I checked the systemd state before the upgrade and noticed that >

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-23 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep23:1719-0400, David L. Craig wrote: > Another datum: I decided to try switching back to > systemd-sysv on my primary bare-metal Sid and the > update was textbook: > > ii libpam-systemd:amd64 215-4 > ii libsystemd-id128-0:amd64 215-4 > ii libsystemd-jour

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-23 Thread David L. Craig
Another datum: I decided to try switching back to systemd-sysv on my primary bare-metal Sid and the update was textbook: ii libpam-systemd:amd64 215-4 ii libsystemd-id128-0:amd64 215-4 ii libsystemd-journal0:amd64 215-4 ii libsystemd-login0:amd64 215-4 ii libsystemd-login0:i386215

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-23 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep23:0956-0400, David L. Craig wrote: > By way of a feasibility test, I had virt-manager > Shut Down ==> Save the a762146 vm at its ready for > first login state and have put the tarball of the > 124MB file it created in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save > up at > http://dlc.c

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-23 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep23:0023+0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Yeah, this would be perfect By way of a feasibility test, I had virt-manager Shut Down ==> Save the a762146 vm at its ready for first login state and have put the tarball of the 124MB file it created in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save up at http://dlc.casit

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-22 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep23:0016+0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 22.09.2014 um 23:23 schrieb David L. Craig: > > On 14Sep21:2011+0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > >> What were the exact error messages you got? > >> Please provide the dpkg log and the output from journalctl -alb &

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-22 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:2011+0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > What were the exact error messages you got? > Please provide the dpkg log and the output from journalctl -alb I ran the test case again and obtained the same results from "aptitude dist-upgrade" and began receiving the kernel messages about journald as

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep22:0005+0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 21.09.2014 um 23:28 schrieb David L. Craig: > > > No, but, as the report mentioned, the vm failure was > > preceded by a similar result doing the daily update > > of the main non-vm Sid instance on the box, which is >

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-18 Thread David L. Craig
Correction: udev and systemd reported replacing 208-6. ^^^ not aptitude -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig__ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. B

Bug#762146: Upgrade To Sid From Beta D-I Breaks systemd, udev, and cron

2014-09-18 Thread David L. Craig
Package: udev Version: 215-4 Severity: grave Installed Beta 1 D-I amd64 netinst without mirror or standard utils in preparation for dist-upgrade to Sid using aptitude with sources.list: deb ftp://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ sid main udev and aptitude reported replacing 208-6. udev fails first

Bug#684952: nvidia-glx: startx blackens screen, keyboard ineffective save for altSysReq

2012-08-15 Thread David L. Craig
On 12Aug15:1037+0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2012-08-15 09:48, David L. Craig wrote: > > I updated all the nvidia packages when I saw the new versions > > but the problem persists. I am including the most recent kern.log > > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-rt-amd64 (SM

Bug#684952: nvidia-glx: startx blackens screen, keyboard ineffective save for altSysReq

2012-08-14 Thread David L. Craig
Package: nvidia-glx Version: 302.17-3 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system I had installed Sid into an available partition and X was happy with nouveau. nvidia was functioning well under Linux Mint Xfce 13. After installing the nvidia packages and porting the Mint xorg.conf