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Duncan_Idaho wrote:what I always do to upgrade packages is

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slapt-get --upgrade --ignore-excludes

and always remember to run lilo after a kernel upgrade

Wah? aaa_base should NEVER be updated! It will destroy your system...
And I doubt that this will help against my problems.

Could you pleas post the output of: BTW what about script instead of making screenshots.

Shador wrote:Could you pleas post the output of:

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LANG=C slapt-get -search '^kernel'

Console (mouse+keyboard) doesn't work any more, see above.

Shador wrote:BTW what about script instead of making screenshots.

It is a VirtualBox guest without guest additions, so it makes it more difficult to copy paste.

damNageHack wrote:Wah? aaa_base should NEVER be updated! It will destroy your system...
And I doubt that this will help against my problems.

really? but I just updated it and nothing happened, even after a reboot
at least nothing evil heppened

damNageHack wrote: It is a VirtualBox guest without guest additions, so it makes it more difficult to copy paste.

You needn't. script stores everything entered and output during a terminal session to a file. You can then send that file around using a network connection and a tool like scp.

damNageHack wrote:Console (mouse+keyboard) doesn't work any more, see above.

Then boot from a CD, mount root, chroot to it and run it that way.

Duncan_Idaho wrote:at least nothing evil heppened

You lucky one But do not expect that for every upgrade without any exclusions. For such situations the exclusions should be.

@Shador, ...

Shador wrote:You needn't. script stores everything entered and output during a terminal session to a file. You can then send that file around using a network connection and a tool like scp.

I did not know that script is a program. I thought of some "real" script to use.

Shador wrote:Then boot from a CD, mount root, chroot to it and run it that way.

Nice idea. So, here it comes what you expected:


edit:
I found something interesting at the end of /var/log/vboxadd-install.log


edit2:
Sorry, it seems that I forgot to run lilo Had worked with Fedora too long and used the comfort of grub ...