Dapper upgrade fails

[Colin Brace]

On 4/22/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:

>You might start by editing the grub line which contains the kernel parameters
> & add 'single' at the very end to see if it boots in single-user mode.  Once
> there, look at your xorg log & gdm logs.  That should tell you the story,
> hopefully.

Booting "single" didn't work, but I booted knoppix from CD and looked
at the log files you mentioned. Here is gdm log:

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X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.12 i686
Current Operating System: Linux cirrus 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Sat Mar 11
16:13:17 UTC 2006 i686
Build Date: 16 March 2006
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 22 20:35:57 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "synaptics" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xffe80000 e: 0xffefffff correcting
(EE) GARTInit: Unable to open /dev/agpgart (No such file or directory)
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
	No such file or directory.
(EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
(EE) No Input driver matching `synaptics'
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
ADVANCE_LP_RING: outring (0x7) isn't on a QWord boundary
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and this is the tail of xorg.0.log:

-----------------------------------

[...]

(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
	No such file or directory.
(EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(EE) No Input driver matching `synaptics'
(WW) No core pointer registered
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
No core pointer

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
ADVANCE_LP_RING: outring (0x7) isn't on a QWord boundary
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Seems to be various issues with mouse and synaptics touchpad drivers.

The thing that perplexes me is that these logfiles are all timestamped
for 14:32 this afternoon. This makes sense insofar as this is the
timeframe of when I ran "update-manager -d" but doesn't appear to
register any subsequent attempts to boot, such as that of ten minutes
ago.

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  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam