Dear euanthoms,
sometimes I dont know whats going on! Strange. What happens is this:
two days ago I have a new line in the grub:
Debian GNU/Linux, mit linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
I can not remember to do so. Never change a winning team!
But: this do not work at all. I got kernel panic message.
Scroll down to
Debian GNU/Linux, mit linux 3.2.0-4-amd64
works well.
Here the next surprise:
firefox do not work with flashplugin. But Iceweasel do!
And then libre office:
I cant read any dokuments what was written with libre office. Imagine: three sheets of written text on one sheet. Strange.
My question: how to get rid of the kernel 3.16?
Firefox doesnt matter.
Libre office: remove and reinstall?
Thanks for your help.
Thomas Schoenherr
Last edit: Thomas Schönherr 2014-12-19
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It seems as though you have added the backports repo and updated to it. This requires some care and experience. I would recommend only using backports for specific packages that you really need. IIRC, you have to specifically tell apt-get (or Apper) to update to the backports version.
It's hard to tell how much your system is messed up. And therefore hard to advise how best to resolve it, without knowing what changes you've made. One option is to re-install and don't use backports. What did you use backports repo for?
The reason flash doesn't work in Firefox is that probaly the location of the flash plugin has changed, due to updating it to backports version, or something along those lines.
You could try downgrading everything to the standard Debian repo versions. Remove backports from your /etc/apt/sources.list and update the repo indexes. Uninstall the packages with bpo in their name, then reinstall (from wheezy/stable repo).
The kernel you can just uninstall, since the orinigal kernel should still be installed.
It's a bit tricky fixing these packaging issues, it's easy to update, but not easy to downgrade. If you are not a technical user and just want a guaranteed, easy solution, then just re-install. It may well take as much time to fix as to re-install, and you may not know if you left some damage behind.
This is what happens when you fiddle, but it's the only way to learn more.
NOTE: ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST.
Last edit: Euan Thoms 2015-01-09
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Dear euanthoms,
sometimes I dont know whats going on! Strange. What happens is this:
two days ago I have a new line in the grub:
Debian GNU/Linux, mit linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
I can not remember to do so. Never change a winning team!
But: this do not work at all. I got kernel panic message.
Scroll down to
Debian GNU/Linux, mit linux 3.2.0-4-amd64
works well.
Here the next surprise:
firefox do not work with flashplugin. But Iceweasel do!
And then libre office:
I cant read any dokuments what was written with libre office. Imagine: three sheets of written text on one sheet. Strange.
My question: how to get rid of the kernel 3.16?
Firefox doesnt matter.
Libre office: remove and reinstall?
Thanks for your help.
Thomas Schoenherr
Last edit: Thomas Schönherr 2014-12-19
It seems as though you have added the backports repo and updated to it. This requires some care and experience. I would recommend only using backports for specific packages that you really need. IIRC, you have to specifically tell apt-get (or Apper) to update to the backports version.
It's hard to tell how much your system is messed up. And therefore hard to advise how best to resolve it, without knowing what changes you've made. One option is to re-install and don't use backports. What did you use backports repo for?
The reason flash doesn't work in Firefox is that probaly the location of the flash plugin has changed, due to updating it to backports version, or something along those lines.
You could try downgrading everything to the standard Debian repo versions. Remove backports from your /etc/apt/sources.list and update the repo indexes. Uninstall the packages with bpo in their name, then reinstall (from wheezy/stable repo).
The kernel you can just uninstall, since the orinigal kernel should still be installed.
It's a bit tricky fixing these packaging issues, it's easy to update, but not easy to downgrade. If you are not a technical user and just want a guaranteed, easy solution, then just re-install. It may well take as much time to fix as to re-install, and you may not know if you left some damage behind.
This is what happens when you fiddle, but it's the only way to learn more.
NOTE: ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST.
Last edit: Euan Thoms 2015-01-09