{"id":1357,"date":"2009-11-12T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2009-11-12T20:13:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:13:20","slug":"debian-black-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/debian-black-out\/","title":{"rendered":"My Debian Black-out – the price of bleeding edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I admit it. I run Debian Unstable<\/a> so I know I deserve to get hit really bad at times when things turn really ugly. It is called unstable for a reason.<\/p>\n

The other day I decided it was about time I did a dist-upgrade. When I did that, I got a remark that I better restart my gnome session as otherwise apps would crash. So I logged out and… I couldn’t login again. In fact, neither my keyboard nor mouse (both on USB) worked anymore! I sighed, and rebooted (for the first time in many months) only to find out that 1) it didn’t fix the problem, both input devices were still non-functional and perhaps even more important 2) the wifi network didn’t work either so I couldn’t login to it from one of my other computers either!<\/p>\n

Related to this story is the fact that I’ve been running an older kernel, 2.6.26, since that was the last version that built my madwifi<\/a> drivers correctly and kernels after that I was supposed to use ath5k<\/a> for my Atheros<\/a> card, but I’ve not been very successful with ath5k and thus remained using the latest kernel I had a fine madwifi for.<\/p>\n

I rebooted again and tried a more recent kernel (2.6.30). Yeah, then the keyboard and mouse worked again, but the ath5k didn’t get the wifi up properly. I think I basically was just lacking the proper tools to check the wifi network and set the desired ssid etc, but without network that’s a bit of a pain. Also, when I logged in on my normal gnome setup, it mentioned a panel something being broken and logged me out again! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Grrr. Of course I could switch to my backup – my laptop – but it was still highly annoying to end up being locked out from your computer.<\/p>\n

Today I bought myself 20 meter cat5e<\/a> cable and made my desktop wired so I can reach the network with the existing setup, I dist-upgraded again (now at kernel 2.6.31) and when I tried to login it just worked. Phew. Back in business. I think I’ll leave myself with the cable connected now that I’ve done the job on that already.<\/p>\n

The lesson? Eeeh… when things break, fix them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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