Re: Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 15:29:13 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > > > > > > > This failure occ

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 14:06:57 (+0200), Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 21:53 +1100, George at Clug wrote: > > The same (now that I am using backports): > > $ yt-dlp --version > > 2025.01.15 > > Due to the nature of this program (Google plays the cat and mouse > game), new versions a

Re: google-chrome printer/copier error

On Sat 01 Feb 2025 at 19:39:55 (-0800), John Conover wrote: > > [2139:2164:0201/184043.963188:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] \ > Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: \ > object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: \ > Did not receiv

google-chrome printer/copier error

[2139:2164:0201/184043.963188:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(576)] \ Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: \ object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: \ Did not receive a reply. Does anyone know where freedesktop is from: org.free

Re: Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports

On 02/02/2025 01:24, Roger Price wrote: I find the instructions for synaptic at https://wiki.debian.org/Backports are incorrect and misleading. It seems to me now that synaptic is not the correct tool for managing backported packages, apt on the command line is much preferable. The page does n

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

On 2025-02-01 12:39, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:07:49AM -0700, g...@extremeground.com wrote: On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: BTW: the same happens with the previous kernel. Also, this is a Debian/Buster server running on AMD64 hardware. I've fsck'd th

Re: Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports (was: Re: Firefox and Video DRM)

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 01/02/2025 02:34, Eddie wrote: > > In Synaptic go to "Settings" - 'Preferences" - "Distributions" > > then select "Prefer Versions From" - backports > > Do not do it. It is not a supposed way to use backports. > > > It is

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:07:49AM -0700, g...@extremeground.com wrote: > On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: > > BTW: the same happens with the previous kernel. Also, this is a > Debian/Buster server running on AMD64 hardware. I've fsck'd the partition > and it's fine. > > I reboo

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables [RESOLVED]

On 2025-02-01 11:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a ch

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a ch

boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a chroot after booting with systemrescue, I find that j

Reproducing the problem on Bullseye install w/o network mirror

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 11:00:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 31 Jan 2025 at 23:30:52 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 02:55:56PM +0900, Mailing List wrote: > > > > > > This failure occurs during the "Select and install software" stage. The > > > root cause is

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Re: Don't set APT::Default-Release to backports (was: Re: Firefox and Video DRM)

On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 01/02/2025 02:34, Eddie wrote: > > In Synaptic go to "Settings" - 'Preferences" - "Distributions" > > then select "Prefer Versions From" - backports > > Do not do it. It is not a supposed way to use backports. >