rommel74
November 10th, 2008, 07:50 AM
I like to have the latest so I guess sometimes I have to pay for it.
I've upgraded my Hardy x64 based system to Intrepid last weekend which in hindsight was a big mistake. The system is mainly used as a MythTV backend/frontend combo and other things like nfs/ftp/samba and ssh server for other clients and an additional Mythtv frontend PC. Since I already updated the MythTV frontend system a week before and did not encounter any major issues I thought it would be safe to update the main server.
The Upgrade went well or so I thought. I encountered the usual upgrade issues like display driver not working, wireless keyboard not working Lirc stopped working etc. Managed to fix them as I normally do after a kernel update by building the kernel modules.
However, I could not rebuild the driver required to get my Dvico Express TV card working, kept failing while running "make" with error messages, so I finally gave up on it and decided that I will revert to the Kernel used by Hardy (2.6.24-21). This worked for the TV card however now I could not recompile the binary NVidia drivers as the version of gcc used with the Hardy kernel is 4.2 whereas Intrepid default is gcc4.3. I removed the existing symlink to 4.3 and created a new one to gcc4.2 which seemed to work fine. I got the Nvidia display drivers running. I thought everything is sweet now but I have a few error messages in the Daemon.log file which you can see bellow:
Nov 10 12:01:23 masterbe gdmgreeter[7712]: Gtk-WARNING: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ubuntulooks",
Nov 10 12:01:39 masterbe x-session-manager[7742]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of required component 'windowmanager'
Nov 10 12:01:40 masterbe x-session-manager[7742]: WARNING: Unable to parse command '(null)': Key file contains key 'Terminal' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
Nov 10 12:01:40 masterbe x-session-manager[7742]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'smart-notifier.desktop': Unable to start application: Key file contains key 'Terminal' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
My biggest concern however is when I try to run apt-get build-dep on any package I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for ..[insert package name here]....
I can still install and uninstall packages fine, just can not run the build-dep command. I think this will leed to issues later down the line.
I probably made a newbie mistake somewhere, I just can not figure it out. I'm also not sure if running the 2.6.24 kernel instead of the Intrepid default of 2.6.27 is going to cause issues since it looks like the new Intrepid kernel is not going to be compatible with the hacked TV Card drivers that I'm using. I made a backup of the OS before the "upgrade" which should be sufficient to restore my Hardy install but I don't want to spend another weekend rebuilding the system.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
I've upgraded my Hardy x64 based system to Intrepid last weekend which in hindsight was a big mistake. The system is mainly used as a MythTV backend/frontend combo and other things like nfs/ftp/samba and ssh server for other clients and an additional Mythtv frontend PC. Since I already updated the MythTV frontend system a week before and did not encounter any major issues I thought it would be safe to update the main server.
The Upgrade went well or so I thought. I encountered the usual upgrade issues like display driver not working, wireless keyboard not working Lirc stopped working etc. Managed to fix them as I normally do after a kernel update by building the kernel modules.
However, I could not rebuild the driver required to get my Dvico Express TV card working, kept failing while running "make" with error messages, so I finally gave up on it and decided that I will revert to the Kernel used by Hardy (2.6.24-21). This worked for the TV card however now I could not recompile the binary NVidia drivers as the version of gcc used with the Hardy kernel is 4.2 whereas Intrepid default is gcc4.3. I removed the existing symlink to 4.3 and created a new one to gcc4.2 which seemed to work fine. I got the Nvidia display drivers running. I thought everything is sweet now but I have a few error messages in the Daemon.log file which you can see bellow:
Nov 10 12:01:23 masterbe gdmgreeter[7712]: Gtk-WARNING: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ubuntulooks",
Nov 10 12:01:39 masterbe x-session-manager[7742]: WARNING: Unable to find provider 'gnome-wm' of required component 'windowmanager'
Nov 10 12:01:40 masterbe x-session-manager[7742]: WARNING: Unable to parse command '(null)': Key file contains key 'Terminal' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
Nov 10 12:01:40 masterbe x-session-manager[7742]: WARNING: Could not launch application 'smart-notifier.desktop': Unable to start application: Key file contains key 'Terminal' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
My biggest concern however is when I try to run apt-get build-dep on any package I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to find a source package for ..[insert package name here]....
I can still install and uninstall packages fine, just can not run the build-dep command. I think this will leed to issues later down the line.
I probably made a newbie mistake somewhere, I just can not figure it out. I'm also not sure if running the 2.6.24 kernel instead of the Intrepid default of 2.6.27 is going to cause issues since it looks like the new Intrepid kernel is not going to be compatible with the hacked TV Card drivers that I'm using. I made a backup of the OS before the "upgrade" which should be sufficient to restore my Hardy install but I don't want to spend another weekend rebuilding the system.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.