Re: unhappy upgrade

From	"Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: unhappy upgrade
Date	2021-10-02 18:30 +0200
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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

What's the kernel version it's currently running - uname -a should  give
you that.

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.

What amount of output does an apt-get update give you?

If you can give us more info, we can perhaps help you better.

All the very best, as ever,

Andy Cater



 
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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
      Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 19:20 +0200
        Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 19:30 +0200
  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
      Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 18:30 +0200
    Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 18:20 +0200
  Re: unhappy upgrade David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-02 20:40 +0200
    Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 18:30 +0200
      Re: unhappy upgrade David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-10-03 20:10 +0200
  Re: unhappy upgrade Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2021-10-03 06:20 +0200
    Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-03 18:50 +0200
      Re: unhappy upgrade Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-03 19:00 +0200
        Re: unhappy upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-03 20:00 +0200
      Re: unhappy upgrade Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2021-10-04 01:50 +0200
        Re: unhappy upgrade Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-04 02:00 +0200
          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
                Re: unhappy upgrade Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-06 07:00 +0200
                Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-05 17:00 +0200
                Re: unhappy upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-10-05 18:20 +0200
        Re: unhappy upgrade "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2021-10-04 20:50 +0200
          Re: unhappy upgrade Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2021-10-05 05:40 +0200

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