'Sid' package breaking Meauto

it's hwdata, read the first message posted on www.mepislovers.org

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You Da' Man Adrian. Thanks for lookin' out.

q

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

You are welcome
Now... it would be nice if Warren would pin hwdata and all the (few) pacakges that are _known_ to cause problems from time to time when Debian upgrades them.

There are not many: hwdata, pciutils, nvidia and maybe ati packages as far as I know. So it's only a matter of pinning 5 packages that would solve the problem for many people that use Sid (or alternatively Mepis could keep a dummy package for each of these dangerous packages in Mepis repos and this dummy package could have a mock version number that's always higher than Debian packages).

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Adrian,

Just discovered that the swap file did 'break' on both boxes. Not something one would necessarily notice right away. I added the standard

/dev/hdx swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0

to the fstab static entries.

Hwdata is deleting the file /user/share/hwdata/pcitable. This file, however, doesn't appear to relate to the dissappearing swap file entry in fstab.

Any ideas?

q

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Yep I didn't notice that, have to check it.

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Yup, I "discovered" this earlier today also! I had just completed building a new server, cloned a previous server to build it, and did an upgrade. Everything worked fine until I made some changes to enable SAMBA, and dutifully did a reboot to be sure things still worked.

Alas, upon bootup, I was greeted by "/usr/share/hwdata/something does not exist" (multiple times). It also wiped out ALL NETWORK CONNECTION. I didn't even have eth0 to configure!

Fortunately, I have backups going back DAYS, so I rebooted with the Live CD and copied the hwdata directory from yesterday. Backups are a good thing

Now as to the exact package that messed up hwdata directory, it looks like it's the hwdata package.

Jon

Jon & Adrian,

I just noticed a meauto & meauto-data 3:3.3-9 update in the repository.
Maybe this is the problem/fix?

I'm gonna' take the plunge, so I thought I'd write this first.

You know, just in case...

q

Edit Beg your pardon, meauto is an update and meauto-data is not. Or perhaps I'm out of sync?

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by borking their most valuable resource.

By the way I think that swap problem is unrelated (I had the hwdata upgraded but still have my swap).

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Qtech, are you still out there? Reboot once for "Yes", and twice for "No"

I think the "swap" thing is merely coincidental, 'cause I checked all my systems after qtech mentioned it, but I don't have that particular problem.

I gotta work on developing an automatic, batch, SAFE, single-package update process, so that my systems will be kept up-to-date, but if bugs are reported, or problems happen, the package won't be installed. Of course, there were NO REPORTS of bugs on this so it wouldn't have worked anyway

Jon