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I have Debian 3.1 ("sarge") installed, and for the past couple days, I've been trying to upgrade to "etch". Following a guide I found online, I've changed my sources.list to point to unstable. Here's what it looks like:
Code:
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-fre
e
#deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates main contrib non-free
# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-f
ree
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r4 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20061116)]
/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r4 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20061116)]
/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r4 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20061116)]
/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r4 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20061116)]
/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r4 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20061116)]
/ unstable contrib main
# deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
Then I ran sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. It downloaded perhaps 300 MB worth of packages. However, the first installation did not go flawlessly. If I remember correctly, the error that occurred then was the same one that is stopping me now.
Nevertheless, I rebooted and found myself still in Debian 3.1. X failed to start when I ran the startx command. The installation warned me this might happen, and I followed the instructions to reinstall xserver-xorg. When I did this, several dozen other packages were installed/upgraded as well.
I rebooted yet again, but found myself still in Debian 3.1. However, nearly everything was updated, including my xfce desktop. Since I was still in 3.1, I decided to run dist-upgrade yet another time. It told me that no packages have to be downloaded, but a couple dozen did still have to be upgraded. But alas, it ran up against an error when it tried to install debianutils:
Code:
Preparing to replace debianutils 2.8.4 (using .../debianutils_2.22.1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement debianutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.22.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/add-shell', which is also in package passwd
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.22.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I was unable to find anything by searching. Does anyone know what to do here? Why does this happen and what can I do about it?
etch is stable, not unstable. That might be a large part of your problem.
You would probably be better off to just download the Etch netinstall CD and start over. Sarge to Etch was always a difficult upgrade, and if you just tried a dist-upgrade to unstable, you probably messed some things up.
dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/debianutils_2.22.1_i386.deb to get the packaging error you have run into then dpkg --configure -a to get the packages that were left unconfigured when the error happened and you may want to upgrade to the latest kernel available to you if it did not already get upgraded then reboot using it.
etch is stable, not unstable. That might be a large part of your problem.
You would probably be better off to just download the Etch netinstall CD and start over. Sarge to Etch was always a difficult upgrade, and if you just tried a dist-upgrade to unstable, you probably messed some things up.
Three votes for "start over." You have undoubtedly screwed something up, and if you don't know the difference between Stable and Unstable, you will screw something up shortly. In moving from one Stable release to the next, it makes a whole lot of sense to read the Release Notes.
HappyTuxBot, forcing dpkg to do things is not always an appropriate solution. To quote the man page:
Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used by
experts only. Using them without fully understanding
their effects may break your whole system.
HappyTuxBot, forcing dpkg to do things is not always an appropriate solution. To quote the man page:
Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used by
experts only. Using them without fully understanding
their effects may break your whole system.
4th vote for a start over.
Whatever it seems to me he got most of the way there on his upgrade and had a problem left to get all the way, it looks like he knows enough to handle the "scary warning" and at least my option allows him the chance to keep a running system intact not take the DOZ way out.
Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately, you should have stopped me sooner :P
So, first of all, a couple questions. When you say "start over", do you guys mean burning another one of those install CDs and completely reinstalling the operating system from that? And does that also imply that everything I have saved on my computer will be lost? Or do you mean something else when you refer to "start over"?
Regarding losing things: how can I avoid that? I've heard of one method which involves mounting /home on a separate partition. But what about all the software that I installed in /usr/local? I've spent a lot of time, for example, configuring my apache installation, as well as configuring the kernel. It would be disappointing to have to do all that guessing and failing another time. Should I simply back up my config files by hand? Or does there happen to be a more elegant solution for preserving all the additional software I installed?
So now I'll tell you what I did. I went ahead and forced the install. It seems to have worked -- I upgraded my Debian from sarge to... lenny/sid! Oops! I surmise this happened because unstable points to lenny/sid now, and not etch. The guide that I was following was probably written at an earlier time when unstable was pointing to etch.
Is this a problem? Maybe. There are a couple things that are hiccuping right now. Perhaps I could treat them one by one and directly, or perhaps I can try downgrading to etch. Both options sound just as appealing, especially considering that downgrading is not nearly as easy as upgrading (or so I've heard).
Here's one problem: every time that modprobe is invoked, I get a list of warning like this:
Code:
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS line 1: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS line 2: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS line 3: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
... <snip> ...
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/linux-sound-base_noOSS line 58: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
A list of 58 warnings coming from linux-sound-base-noOSS. And of course, modprobe is invoked many times during boot, so this list of warnings occurs at least a dozen times every time I turn on the computer. I've searched for this, and it appears that a couple other people do have this problem; however, I was unable to find a fix yet.
There were a couple other problems, but I'll need some more time to be able to describe them better. For example, the depmod -a command seems to hang the terminal in which I run it, but I have yet to determine whether or not that happens every time, and whether or not the whole systems hangs. Also, the last time I tried to shut down, it failed. It started giving me out some diagnostic messages, but I did not jot them down and I don't remember what they said. So I'll get back with these potential problems a bit later.
By the way, regarding my expertise: I do programming, so I am familiar with some of the technical concepts. However, I am quite new to Linux -- I've only used it for a couple months. I'm still in the process of learning it -- I'm currently in the process of reading A Practical Guide to Linux, as well as the far more technical How Linux Works. I also ordered a couple books about the Linux kernel from the library (still waiting on them), as I would definately be interested in dabbling with the kernel itself (more for geek points rather than anything practical). I'm not very far through any of these books at the moment. But on the other hand, I am willing to devote time to learning and researching if need be. I'm not running anything critical, nor do I have any sort of deadline for anything. So if a solution involves some work, please don't shy away from giving it.
Thanks for the help so far. Any suggestions about that linux-sound-base_noOSS problem would be welcome.
Hmmm! It sounds like you may have dodged a bullet as far as trashing your entire system is concerned.
A few suggestions to contain the damage if you want to try salvaging it.
If /home is on a separate partition (it should be), your data should be fairly safe. Nevertheless, a backup is certainly in order. Doing a fresh install around such a partition is very easy. But you will have to redo your Apache configurations. Backing up /usr/local/ and reinstalling it after a new installation may be possible.
Your chances of downgrading to Stable (Etch) are not particularly good. I would change your sources.list file to point to Lenny (Testing) which is quite stable right now. You will want to be very careful with future upgrades. There are some programs in Unstable right now, which you may have installed, that you will want to remove, then reinstall from Testing, but first I would make sure they are actually causing problems. If you leave your sources.list pointing at Lenny, all packages will eventually be replaced with more stable versions.
I would not worry about the error messages for the time being since they are evidently not fatal. My first effort would be to test for potentially serious server and OS issues. If that core system appears to be stable, you can attack other problems individually.
You don't appear to be the kind of person given to panic, and that is very important right now.
Thats one thing I have learned about linux is if something goes wrong don't panic because in panic mode you'll probably screw something up that wasn't already screwed up
I'll try my best to ignore the warnings, despite the fact that they make their presence so glaringly obvious. I'll also be busying myself with some repartitioning.
I changed my sources.list to point to lenny.
Regarding those other problems: I've tried running the depmod command several times. The problem is actually more random than I thought -- it's not depmod specifically that causes it. You see, I have a wireless card on this computer (running on ndiswrapper), and the connection occasionally breaks. So I reset the connection by removing the ndiswrapper module, running depmod -a, and then reinserting the ndiswrapper module using modprobe. But after doing this several times, it appears that the system is just as likely to hang on any other step in this process. Because the problem is so ill-defined ("the system hangs") and difficult to reproduce ("it happens randomly"), I suppose it would be difficult to diagnose at the moment. I'll observe it some more and maybe post about it later.
Regarding the problems with shutting down: if I use the computer for less than an hour or so, it manages to turn off without problems. However, after heavy use, the system complains that it is out of memory when shutting down. I jotted down as best as I could what it said, but some messages scrolled away to fast. Here's what I could write down:
Out of memory: kill process #### (hotplug) score 64 or as child
... <something> ... default.hotplug ... <something> ...
Free swap: 0kB, total swap: 0kB
32752 pages of RAM
0 pages of HIGHMEM
1326 reserved pages
5455 pages shared, 0 pages swap cached/dirty/write back/mapped
2257 pages slab
2063 pages pagetables
Everything from "Free swap: ..." downward keeps repeating forever. Is it complaining that I have no memory left in RAM and swap? I think have 192 MB of RAM. And speaking of swap, I just ran the mount command to check how much memory is allocated to each partition, and found that I have no partition allocated for swap. Here's the output from the mount command:
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
I also ran the df -h command to see how much space is allocated for each partition:
I'll try my best to ignore the warnings, despite the fact that they make their presence so glaringly obvious. I'll also be busying myself with some repartitioning.
I changed my sources.list to point to lenny.
Regarding those other problems: I've tried running the depmod command several times. The problem is actually more random than I thought -- it's not depmod specifically that causes it. You see, I have a wireless card on this computer (running on ndiswrapper), and the connection occasionally breaks. So I reset the connection by removing the ndiswrapper module, running depmod -a, and then reinserting the ndiswrapper module using modprobe. But after doing this several times, it appears that the system is just as likely to hang on any other step in this process. Because the problem is so ill-defined ("the system hangs") and difficult to reproduce ("it happens randomly"), I suppose it would be difficult to diagnose at the moment. I'll observe it some more and maybe post about it later.
There should be no need to run depmod just see if using modprobe -r module_name then modprobe module_name
to load the module again works for you.
Quote:
Regarding the problems with shutting down: if I use the computer for less than an hour or so, it manages to turn off without problems. However, after heavy use, the system complains that it is out of memory when shutting down. I jotted down as best as I could what it said, but some messages scrolled away to fast. Here's what I could write down:
Out of memory: kill process #### (hotplug) score 64 or as child
... <something> ... default.hotplug ... <something> ...
That looks like hotplug could still be installed you should have gotten udev when you were upgrading so use dpkg -P hotplug to purge it and its configuration files that may be left on the system.
Everything from "Free swap: ..." downward keeps repeating forever. Is it complaining that I have no memory left in RAM and swap? I think have 192 MB of RAM. And speaking of swap, I just ran the mount command to check how much memory is allocated to each partition, and found that I have no partition allocated for swap. Here's the output from the mount command:
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
I also ran the df -h command to see how much space is allocated for each partition:
dude,
keep lenny. You should be able to fix all of the things that may have gone awry during the upgrade. Do a lsmod and post the output - you may need to recompile some modules. Also I noticed you don't have a swap partition. You could do without one and just swap to a file but I think that is the source of your low-on-memory problems. There could be a memory leak somewhere but I highly doubt it - you would have noticed it. I would recommend creating a swap partition at the end of the drive - if you need help with that just post us back.
From your posts it seems like modprobe has blacklisted some of your modules, like the soundcore module, so you'll might need to switch some of them. I should be able to help you with your sound if you post your hardware specs since I've had a lot of problems with alsa.
Anyway post us the output from lsmod and we can go from there. And Tux could be able to tell you if you need a swap partition.
And I'd love to tell you my hardware specs, but I really don't know how I could identify them. I was hoping that I might use some of the tools provided with Linux to identify my hardware -- after all, every time Linux boots, it tells me things like "BX440 Chipset detected", and "Toshiba MK4309MAT hard drive detected", and "Sony CDRW CRX700E ATAPI CD/DVDROM Drive detected". But I really don't know yet how to make use of any of these tools. The only spec sheet I found online for my laptop (Dell CPi A400XT) is this one:
And sadly, a good part of it is wrong. My hard drive is about 4 GB big, not 2.1 GB, I do not have a floppy drive, and my CDROM drive is a different model. I'm not sure how much of the rest is right.
But if it helps, here's all of the output I get by running dmesg:
Code:
Linux version 2.6.22.1.070718 (root@debian) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050314 (prerelease) (Debian 3.4.3-13sarge1)) #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 18 00:44:59 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000c0000 - 00000000000cc000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000100a0000 - 0000000010100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffe00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB LOWMEM available.
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 32752) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 32752
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 32752
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 223 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 28433 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F3BF0, 0014 (r0 DELL )
ACPI: RSDT 07FF0000, 0028 (r1 DELL CPi A 27D00306 ASL 61)
ACPI: FACP 07FF0400, 0074 (r1 DELL CPi A 27D00306 ASL 61)
ACPI: DSDT 07FF0800, 2880 (r1 INT430 SYSFexxx 1001 MSFT 100000C)
ACPI: FACS 07FFF800, 0040
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10100000:efd00000)
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 32497
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01101000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
Detected 397.082 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 125516k/131008k available (2542k kernel code, 5024k reserved, 930k data, 172k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xfffb7000 - 0xfffff000 ( 288 kB)
vmalloc : 0xc8800000 - 0xfffb5000 ( 887 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xc7ff0000 ( 127 MB)
.init : 0xc0468000 - 0xc0493000 ( 172 kB)
.data : 0xc037b9ab - 0xc0464420 ( 930 kB)
.text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc037b9ab (2542 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 795.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=1590032)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0820)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc0ee, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
* Found PM-Timer Bug on the chipset. Due to workarounds for a bug,
* this clock source is slow. Consider trying other clock sources
PCI quirk: region 0800-083f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
PCI quirk: region 0840-084f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
PIIX4 devres B PIO at 00e0-00e7
PIIX4 devres C PIO at 0850-085f
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9fbff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x9fc00-0x9ffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xc0000-0xcffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x800-0x805 has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x808-0x80f has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x806-0x807 has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x850-0x853 has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x856-0x85f has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x810-0x83f has been reserved
pnp: 00:03: ioport range 0x840-0x84f has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0xf400-0xf4fe has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: iomem range 0xed000000-0xedffffff has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: c000-cfff
MEM window: fd000000-feffffff
PREFETCH window: f9000000-fbffffff
PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:03.0
IO window: 00001000-000010ff
IO window: 00001400-000014ff
PREFETCH window: 20000000-23ffffff
MEM window: 24000000-27ffffff
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:03.1
IO window: 00001800-000018ff
IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
PREFETCH window: 28000000-2bffffff
MEM window: 2c000000-2fffffff
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.0 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.1 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input0
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input1
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input2
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (25 C)
i8k: unable to get SMM Dell signature
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
00:0d: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb8xxx
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2.
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
hda: TOSHIBA MK4309MAT, ATA DISK drive
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -497594134 ns)
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX700E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 8452080 sectors (4327 MB), CHS=8944/15/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.0 [1028:0088]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.0, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000020
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:03.1 [1028:0088]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:00:03.1, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x66
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
usbmon: debugfs is not available
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000ece0
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC).
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'CCMP'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
Using IPI Shortcut mode
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input3
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
Adding 208804k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:208804k
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Generic RTC Driver v1.07
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ndiswrapper version 1.47 loaded (smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver wg511v2 (NETGEAR,02/22/2005,3.1.1.7) loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 11
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input4
wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:6c:8d:83:2f using NDIS driver: wg511v2, version: 0x3000036, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 11AB:1FAA.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage from process: discover.
pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
pcmcia: see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for details.
Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PIIX4: port 0x01f0 already claimed by ide0
PIIX4: port 0x0170 already claimed by ide1
PIIX4: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
nm256: found card signature in video RAM: 0x27ec00
nm256: Mapping port 1 from 0x2709a0 - 0x27ec00
agpgart: Detected an Intel 440BX Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input5
parport_pc 00:0e: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
Please let me know if there is anything else you might need to know, as well as how to go about finding it out.
The only problems I'm really worried about right now are those warnings I get from modprobe, and the occasional shutdown failure. The system seems to be stable otherwise -- I have not experienced the system hanging lately.
As always, thank you for all the help. I would still be an icon clicker in Windows Land without you.
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Tux could be able to tell you if you need a swap partition. 
