Problems upgrading to Excalibur

Taz · 2024-08-17 15:25:14

I don't know if this was just something broken on my box or if it is a bug with Devuan.

The upgrade proceeded normally, apt update, apt upgrade, apt --fix-broken install repeated several times. Then it hung on texlive with a dependency hell that apt --fix-broken install couldn't fix and aptitude with full-resolver wanted to delete about a thousand packages. Downloading texlive and texlive-fonts and force installing them with dpkg fixed that and allowed apt to fix the remaining broken packages which also removed KDE.

From there the update proceeded well until it got hung up with this message

DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs { "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10"; };

deleting /etc/apt/sources-list.d/20apt-listchanges fixed that and allowed the upgrade to complete.

Reinstalled KDE and I have a running but still partly broken box. Somehow there were two versions of python3 (python3_2.12.4 and python3_3.12.5) It was impossible to configure them with dpkg, fix them with apt or delete them even remove purge force. python -V reported python3_3.12.5. Eventually using synaptic and selecting every python package it was possible to delete them and to reinstall python3 which gave me python3_2.12.4.

No idea if it is bugs in Devuan or just something stupid I did on my box but that was may adventures over a couple of days in running the upgrade, might be useful to someone else if they run into those problems might not.

REMANING PROBLEMS

It is impossible to configure python3 (although it seems to work), emacs, emacs-pgtk, sane-utils

If I can't get it sorted out I will come back and ask for help, otherwise this might help someone with similar problems.

golinux · 2024-08-17 15:37:52

Did you do the usrmerge before upgrading?

https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/exca … 02-20.html

That's why I'm still safely on Chimaera until the dust settles . . .

delgado · 2024-08-17 21:43:44

apt update, apt upgrade

Did you run apt dist-upgrade too?

I'm currently installing excalibur on my new desktop, which is not as much fun as I hoped.
The proprietary nvidia driver seems not like kernel 6.10. Beside that and some uefi boot BS, everything seems to work. But I don't use/have KDE.

EDIT:
Debian's testing netinstall.iso throwed errors after booting, so I ran bookworm and daedalus isos and migrated them to excalibur.

Last edited by delgado (2024-08-18 11:14:51)

Taz · 2024-08-20 15:41:14

Yes I ran usemerge some time before doing the upgrade so that doesn't seem to be the problem

I ran apt update, apt upgrade, apt dist-upgrade, apt install kde-full

I have sorted out the python problem when attempting to configure it py3clean was reporting that it couldn't find a lot of programs. I don't remember most of them but they seemed to be python programs I had installed in the past. None of them seemed like they should prevent the configuration of python. The only one I remember was convert-all. Installing them all fixed it and allowed python to be configured.

Taz · 2024-08-20 17:33:45

New problems.

3 days ago I ran the updates and everything was working. Before I could close down and restart there was a power cut that crashed the box, when it came back up I had no wifi. I can't even see any wifi networks, there are about 20 around here which my other computer and phone can see.

I don't know if the problem is in one of the updates or files that got damaged with the power failure.

So far I have tried the following with no success. Can anyone suggest what I should try next or any packages I should reinstall to try to fix this? I can't plug this computer into eth0 so will need to download packages on another box and move them over by USB.

Boot Mint 20 from USB to confirm the hardware is working, no problems with wifi.

sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop

sudo /etc/init.d/networking start

No change

richard@devuan:~$ ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether f0:de:f1:94:fe:f3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 46:db:5b:34:29:24 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 08:11:96:70:fa:44

At least the wlan is there

sudo ip link set dev wlan0 up

No change

sudo rfkill list
[sudo] password for richard: 
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Not blocked

sudo rfkill unblock all

No change

lspci -k
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (802.11a/b/g/n)
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi

Looks like wifi should be working

richard@devuan:~$ sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
modprobe: FATAL: Module iwlwifi is in use.

As expected if the module is in use

richard@devuan:~$ sudo dmesg | grep iwlwifi
[    6.328095] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[    6.328677] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected crf-id 0xa5a5a5a1, cnv-id 0xa5a5a5a1 wfpm id 0xa5a5a5a1
[    6.328711] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: PCI dev 0085/1311, rev=0xb0, rfid=0xd55555d5
[    6.342829] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 6000g2a-6.ucode op_mode iwldvm
[    6.593801] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled
[    6.593806] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled
[    6.593807] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled
[    6.593809] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 AGN, REV=0xB0
[   11.609426] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[   11.900849] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[   12.033649] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[   12.329006] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[  548.948798] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[  549.252406] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 6508.830474] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 6509.129835] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 6510.402199] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[ 6510.698211] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0

richard@devuan:~$ sudo lshw -class network
  *-network                 
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (Lewisville)
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 04
       serial: f0:de:f1:94:fe:f3
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=6.10.3-amd64 firmware=0.13-3 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:38 memory:f3b00000-f3b1ffff memory:f3b2b000-f3b2bfff ioport:6080(size=32)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 34
       serial: 46:db:5b:34:29:24
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=6.10.3-amd64 firmware=18.168.6.1 6000g2a-6.ucode latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:36 memory:f3a00000-f3a01fff

Last edited by Taz (2024-08-20 18:55:45)

golinux · 2024-08-20 18:26:00

Please use "code" tags in your posts.Thanks.

Taz · 2024-08-21 17:36:43

I installed the following packages, turned the wifi off and on again and everything Networking is working perfectly. Something had removed wpasupplicant.

network-manager_1.48.8-1devuan1_amd64.deb
wpasupplicant_2.10-21.1_amd64.deb
dnsmasq-base_2.90-4_amd64.deb
ppp_2.5.0-1+2_amd64.deb
wireless-regdb_2024.07.04-1_all.deb
libnl-route-3-200_3.7.0-0.3_amd64.deb
libpcap0.8t64_1.10.4-5_amd64.deb

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#1 2024-08-17 15:25:14

Problems upgrading to Excalibur

#2 2024-08-17 15:37:52

Re: Problems upgrading to Excalibur

#3 2024-08-17 21:43:44

Re: Problems upgrading to Excalibur

#4 2024-08-20 15:41:14

Re: Problems upgrading to Excalibur

#5 2024-08-20 17:33:45

Re: Problems upgrading to Excalibur

#6 2024-08-20 18:26:00

Re: Problems upgrading to Excalibur

#7 2024-08-21 17:36:43

Re: Problems upgrading to Excalibur

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