I think I hosed my machine....

ceh383 · 07-11-2012, 09:33 PM

After debating weather to leave well enough alone, or up grade to -current, curiosity got the best of me...
I decided to upgrade my laptop to -current.
Now when I boot-up my keyboard and mouse (touch pad) don't work at all. I have no input what so ever.
The computer is a Dell XPS 17 (L702X) It was set to boot to runlevel 4 using GDM with xfce as the WM.

Will it be possible to revert to 13.37 or, will I need to reinstall?

If it is possible to revert back to 13.37, what is the best approach?

apeitheo · 07-11-2012, 10:12 PM

Damn, I think I had this same problem when upgrading my desktop to -current. I forget how I solved it.

Is /etc/rc.d/rc.hald set executable?

ceh383 · 07-11-2012, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apeitheo

Is /etc/rc.d/rc.hald set executable?

At this point I'm not sure...I need to figure out how to boot to run level 1 to see if I can use the keyboard.

ReaperX7 · 07-11-2012, 10:27 PM

Whenever you upgrade from a preset release to -Current you should revert to the basic runlevel 3 just to be safe because often you may have to rerun several configuration scripts again to reset the system like xorgsetup, alsaconf, netconfig, etc.

Perform the upgrade commands in this order (reconfirmed from AlienBOB) after switching your FTP/HTTP mirror over to a Current mirror:

1. slackpkg update
2. slackpkg install-new
3. slackpkg upgrade-all
4. slackpkg clean-system

At present you MAY be able to boot the system using the rescue command from the install disk and get some functionality before reattempting to see what is wrong:

Code:

huge.s root=/dev/sda# noinitrd=ro

# = whatever number your Linux boot partition is.

T3slider · 07-11-2012, 10:38 PM

You can try forcing runlevel 3 at boot-time by passing 3 as a parameter at the lilo boot screen (assuming you use lilo). For example, if the menu entry is called Linux, you would type "Linux 3" (without quotes) and press enter (I think you have to press Tab to get to the prompt but I cannot remember). If it still doesn't work then you can try booting into single user mode by passing 1 instead of 3. And of course if that still doesn't work then you can always use ReaperX7's above-mentioned trick when booting using the install CD/DVD.

hitest · 07-11-2012, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ceh383

It was set to boot to runlevel 4 using GDM with xfce as the WM.

I'm guessing you installed GDM from a third party as that is not part of a standard Slackware install. Are you running GSB or just GDM from a repository? Just curious. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with your upgrade getting hosed.

TobiSGD · 07-11-2012, 10:57 PM

I had that problem some time ago, just because I forgot the mandatory

Code:

slackpkg install-new

After that it worked like a charm (and still does).

Original thread was here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...orking-943408/

ceh383 · 07-12-2012, 09:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

Whenever you upgrade from a preset release to -Current you should revert to the basic runlevel 3 just to be safe because often you may have to rerun several configuration scripts again to reset the system like xorgsetup, alsaconf, netconfig, etc.

Perform the upgrade commands in this order (reconfirmed from AlienBOB) after switching your FTP/HTTP mirror over to a Current mirror:

1. slackpkg update
2. slackpkg install-new
3. slackpkg upgrade-all
4. slackpkg clean-system

At present you MAY be able to boot the system using the rescue command from the install disk and get some functionality before reattempting to see what is wrong:

Code:

huge.s root=/dev/sda# noinitrd=ro

# = whatever number your Linux boot partition is.

Live and learn, next time I attempt an upgrade I will switch to runlevel 3 before hand.
I did run the upgrade commands in that order, however when it came to slackpkg upgrade-all I got an error saying I needed to update the gpg key.
I ran slackpkg update-gpg, it failed...I don't remember the exact message.

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3slider

You can try forcing runlevel 3 at boot-time by passing 3 as a parameter at the lilo boot screen (assuming you use lilo). For example, if the menu entry is called Linux, you would type "Linux 3" (without quotes) and press enter (I think you have to press Tab to get to the prompt but I cannot remember).

This worked, I can get into the system...Thanks for that

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest

Are you running GSB or just GDM from a repository?

I installed GDM and its dependencies from slackbuilds.org.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

I had that problem some time ago, just because I forgot the mandatory

Code:

slackpkg install-new

After that it worked like a charm (and still does).

Original thread was here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...orking-943408/

I did run slackpkg install-new, and that seemingly went well...As stated above I did have a problem with slackpkg upgrade-all.

I'll give that thread a read over...

Thanks all...

ReaperX7 · 07-12-2012, 03:22 PM

The GPG key should be updated when you run slackpkg update. I don't see why it didn't.

ceh383 · 07-12-2012, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReaperX7

The GPG key should be updated when you run slackpkg update. I don't see why it didn't.

Me either, I'll try again tonight and see if I get the error again...

hitest · 07-12-2012, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ceh383

Me either, I'll try again tonight and see if I get the error again...

When I do a clean install I run:

# slackpkg update gpg

then:

# slackpkg update

ceh383 · 07-12-2012, 11:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hitest

When I do a clean install I run:

# slackpkg update gpg

then:

# slackpkg update

Well, I will note that for future use....
Given the time I've spent trying to get this back up and getting nowhere, I decided to reinstall...It just takes less time...

ReaperX7 · 07-13-2012, 12:20 AM

let us know if you attempt it again and how it goes.

ceh383 · 07-13-2012, 12:21 AM

Ok, I reinstalled 13.37, ran slackpkg update gpg, then updated using slackpkg in the order given above.
when I got to slackpkg upgrade-all I got this...

Code:

bash-4.1# slackpkg upgrade-all

You need the GPG key of Slackware Linux Project <security@slackware.com>.
To download and install that key, run:

	# slackpkg update gpg

You can disable GPG checking too, but it is not a good idea.
To disable GPG, edit slackpkg.conf and change the value of the CHECKGPG
variable to off - you can see an example in the original slackpkg.conf.new
file distributed with slackpkg.

I ran "slackpkg update gpg" again and got the same message again....WTF....

Here goes a reboot....hope it works....

ceh383 · 07-13-2012, 12:28 AM

Well, it's still the same as before....

Right now time is at a premium for me, I guess 13.37 will have to do...