Lu 12.04 "Network Manager is not working"?? YT is not working either . . .

Fritz Hudnut este.el.paz at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 00:20:26 UTC 2014


@Israel && farinet:

Top posting . . . @Israel:  On the "hw-detect bug" possible issue, would
that be a problem for a system that is already installed?  This edition of
12 was installed at least 1.5 years back, or more . . . and then regularly
updated . . . including kernel to whatever the latest . . . a few things
added, not too many.  At the time of the install the computer was crashing
quite a bit, but it's now got fresh RAM at 1GB!!!!

@farinet:  I tried your suggestion, typing "linux old" at second yaboot
prompt . . . and then I typed "uname -r" and it showed "3.2.0-63" . . . so
you must have "locked" your kernel some time ago???  Then the update
manager showed "6 updates available" . . . so I ran "update && upgrade" and
the only thing it showed was "linux-header" and the other stuff that shows
up for kernel upgrade . . . which it listed as "3.2.0.64.97" ????  Needing
to download 50MB of data . . . .  So, if indeed I booted into "linux old"
why wouldn't it know that there was a "new" already installed?  Perhaps
because I recently ran "autoremove" all the old kernels were gone??  So
Yaboot can't see there is no "old"???

Anyway, PITA to have kernel upgrades that are removing basic features such
as sound . . . I checked for "alsamixer" in the "old" kernel . . . "no such
file" came back . . . .  I'm typing this in the "old" kernel, so I'
ll see what happens in 3.2.0-64.97 . . . as I mentioned, not a whole lot of
time to toss on keeping linux PPC set up, retro-installing kernels and such
. . . .  I guess I might find this old kernel through synaptic and try to
install it, and then lock it?  But, then would the other latest upgrades be
messed up in doing that?  It just seems easier to hobble along with the
latest upgrades . . . just like in Monty Python as the guys limbs get
chopped away and he's saying, "Come on, I can take you, come on . . ."
from the ground that he's lying on, etc.  It seems like that . . . what
will they take next?  Figuring at some point the display . . . and then the
GUI . . . "come on . . . I dare you . . .   Ah, bugger . . . there's
nothing left of 12.04 PPC . . . ."  : - )))  Anyway, I'll check back when I
get some more details from this latest kernel . . . .

F/e.e.p.

From: farinet at arcor.de
> To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Lu 12.04 "Network Manager is not working"?? YT is not
>         working either . . . .
>
> lubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com:
> > Since the Kernel is upgraded on your system you could always try rolling
> > back to an earlier kernel (like the version just before this one where
> > everything broke)
>
> That's what i did: kernel 3.2.0-4 detects the sound card. And it works
> even in a 14.04 environment.
>
> The problem is, as far as i understand, that yaboot only keeps 2
> kernels. The newest installed, which might be an older one, and the
> primary kernel which was used before.
>
> In any case, there exist something like a kernel pool, wherefrom you
> could donwload the kernel mentioned above. May be someone here knows the
> exact download link.
>
> Cheers.
>
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