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| From | "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: unhappy upgrade |
| Date | 2021-10-03 17:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <D4bhM-OX-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <D3PAC-3N5-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <D3Q3D-4d5-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | (as necessary) |
On Saturday 02 October 2021 12:27:26 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I tried the first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of ways... > > > > For some reason, the software decided to remove virtualbox. Which is a real problem, because it's inside a virtual machine that I do all of my mail, so I couldn't get at my mail for a while. In Synaptic Package Manager if I try to install it I get the following error message: > > > > "Package virtualbox has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list" > > > > I got temporarily past this by installing 8 on this laptop I'm currently typimg on. Some things are decidedly less convenient. > > > > Firefox is majorly different, apparently having gone from 68.9.0 --> 78.14.0esr. It no longer uses the font that I'm telling it to, and for some odd reason won't play any youtube videos any more. Instead I see a message on the screen that says "if video doesn't start momentarily restart your device". Huh? > > > > Konqueror is also broken, I get "Could not start proess Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file'"... > > > > Trying to open a file with Okular gets me a similar message. > > > > I don't see any way to back out of these changes, or any obvious place to look for where the problems are. Suggestions welcomed. > > > > > > Hi Roy, > > On the broken machine: can you give us the output of /etc/debian_version 9.13 > What's the kernel version it's currently running - uname -a should give you that. 3.16.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.84--1 (2020-06-9) x86_64 GNU/Linux > Firefox _will_ be majorly different: it's one of the packages where we > have to continue to track upstream's -esr version because we can't backport > security fixes. Okay, but I don't get the apparent inability/refusal to play any videos? It's not just youtube... > What amount of output does an apt-get update give you? Nine lines starting with "Get:", "Ign:", "Hit:" etc. "The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found." "Is the package apt-transport-https installed?" "Failed to fetch https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/stretch/InRelease" and: "Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead." > If you can give us more info, we can perhaps help you better. Hope this helps. I am really not sure what is going on here... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
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unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-02 18:00 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-02 18:30 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 17:10 +0200
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Re: unhappy upgrade Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-02 18:40 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-02 20:20 +0200
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Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 18:20 +0200
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Re: unhappy upgrade Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2021-10-03 06:20 +0200
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Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-04 21:30 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-05 02:00 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-05 03:20 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-05 15:10 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 16:50 +0200
Re: unhappy upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-05 18:20 +0200
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