CAnt'reboot: "cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file"

Hi, using Debian unstable I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing' last night and on booting this morning found login now had audio, and that the post-login screen had remembered theme, font-sizes, and other details from my last session. So far so good - I was impressed. But when I chose me

Root: mkinitrd ... Permission denied. (?)

Hi, at the risk of being tiresome (to myself if no one else) ... I apt-graded to kernel-image-2.6.5-1-686 successfully, but after the next dist-upgrade - which 'upgraded' the kernel-image - I found reboot gave me a kernel panic "VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb5" or unknown-block (0,0) Pl

[Success] Re: Root: mkinitrd ... Permission denied. (?)

auses X to crash. Modprobe has no reaction to the 'mousedev' and 'psmouse' modules, but tells me that module 'psaux' is not installed. I'll have to try try 'insmod psaux lp' ... Is this a known 2.6.5 kernel config problem ? Adam Bogacki, [EMAIL P

Re: Thunderbird 0.8 folder bug ?

Alexander Sack wrote: Adam Bogacki wrote: I am not sure if this is a Debian or Thunderbird problem so I am posting to both lists. Having apt-upgraded to Thunderbird 0.8 I find the central pane completely blank so that I can not see the contents of my inbox, or of any other box or folder. It remains

Help ! "Kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage."

Hi, Running a routine 'update' and 'dist-upgrade' in unstable I found today that 'kernel-image-2.4.25-1-686' and associated files such as 'kernel-headers' were to be upgraded. I had previously found 'alsa-modules-2.4.25-1-686' would not install because a number of modules (the four files

After kernel 2.6.5-1 install, cursor&printing lost, reboot hangs after upgrade...

Hi, attempting to installing MPlayer,  I found had no audio with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I apt-installed the 2.4.25-1-686 kernel, headers, and alsa-modules but was  ultimately informed on alsa-users that my kernel/modules were 'foobar' . Kernel 2.6 .5-1-686 includes alsa-modules so I tried th

Kernel panic: 2.6.5.-1-686 boot probs.

Oops, I forgot to run lilo ... but I then got the error message "/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device Is device mapper driver missing from kernel ? Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.15-ioctl (2004-04-07) (compat) and kernel driver Warning: The boot sector and map file are on different d