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| 21:41.52 | atomfire | Hi everyone. I'm having a very strange issue on my powerbook G4, running Wheezy. I put the laptop away a couple of weeks ago and when I started it up the other day, all of my fonts in my DE appear the opposite color of what they should. |
| 21:42.02 | atomfire | Everything that should be black is white, the green text in my terminal is purple, the red text is aqua, etc |
| 21:42.09 | atomfire | This is in XFCE, I purged and reinstalled it, didn't help. I also installed Gnome but it's doing the exact same thing |
| 21:58.29 | pahartik | atomfire: Maybe kernel or X11 server driver changed |
| 22:07.46 | atomfire | pahartik: but I didn't even run an update |
| 22:07.57 | atomfire | pahartik: if it's not a hardware problem I'll be happy |
| 22:10.26 | atomfire | I'm running apple's hardware test right now, is there anything else I can do? |
| 22:12.20 | pahartik | atomfire: It does not sound like hardware problem |
| 22:13.14 | atomfire | pahartik: oh good. It's very strange because everything works, I just can't see it |
| 22:13.40 | atomfire | I purged and reinstalled xfce, and installed gnome. I haven't tried fluxbox yet, and I'm hoping to avoid a complete reinstall |
| 22:18.56 | atomfire | pahartik: it passed the hardware test. hmm |
| 22:20.04 | pahartik | atomfire: Try with another kernel version |
| 22:25.14 | atomfire | pahartik: I'm running the other hardware test right now. I only know how to boot into one kernel, and I'm running Wheezy |
| 22:25.36 | atomfire | When this hardware test finished, would you be able to help me boot into a different kernel? |
| 22:34.36 | pahartik | atomfire: Sure, you probably boot with "yaboot" |
| 22:45.46 | atomfire | ahh, yes. extended test complete. Also passed. Yes I boot with yaboot |
| 22:54.02 | pahartik | atomfire: Make label in "/etc/yaboot.conf" for each installed kernel |
| 22:56.12 | pahartik | atomfire: Like "image=/vmlinux-3.3.8" "label=Linux-3.3.8" "read-only" "initrd=/initrd.img-3.3.8" so that you can easily specify kernel version to boot |
| 22:58.15 | pahartik | atomfire: When "yaboot" stops for moment to wait user input, pressing <Tab> lists defined labels |
| 22:59.24 | atomfire | ok |
| 23:00.20 | atomfire | where can I see which kernels I have installed? |
| 23:01.13 | atomfire | ok, thank you, tabbed at the yaboot menu and it showed me "Linux old" |
| 23:02.10 | atomfire | pahartik: booting into the old kernel worked! |
| 23:03.22 | pahartik | atomfire: "dpkg --list | grep linux-image" |
| 23:03.39 | atomfire | how can I set the machine to boot into that kernel by default? |
| 23:03.40 | atomfire | thank you |
| 23:05.46 | atomfire | thank you so much, I thought my machine was screwed |
| 23:06.03 | pahartik | atomfire: It is good idea to create version specific labels in addition to "Linux" and "old" |
| 23:06.54 | pahartik | atomfire: First label in "/etc/yaboot.conf" is default unless specified otherwise |
| 23:08.32 | atomfire | ok |
| 23:13.07 | atomfire | maybe I updated before the last shutdown and when I rebooted it was messed up |
| 23:23.16 | atomfire | pahartik: where can I see what initrd images are available? |
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| 23:40.05 | atomfire | pahartik: disconnected |
| 23:42.08 | atomfire | pahartik: I changed the labels, and put the older kernel first, but it still shows up as "Linux old" in yaboot when I reboot |