systemd errors

[mick.crane]

I installed on a fresh disk the nightly build of Trixie and it works a
treat and it configured the monitor to it's highest resolution using the
nouveau module thing.
Unfortunately I broke my previous Trixie installation trying to get rid
of the nvidia module.
It still works with "startx" but the resolution is low.
Apt let me install the 6.9.8 kernel whereas wouldn't dist-upgrade,
probably as it had done that before.
I saw on the net to "update-initrmfs -u" so I did that.
So I think that earlier install has a kernel now free of the nvidia but
there must be some systemd left referencing stuff I've deleted because
there is some message at boot about can't find or load a module and X
wont automatically start.
I'd quite like to get that earlier install working cleanly to remind me
of what was installed.

Any tips for querying systemd what the complaints are about would be
appreciated.
mick

[David Wright]

Post by mick.crane
I installed on a fresh disk the nightly build of Trixie and it works a
treat and it configured the monitor to it's highest resolution using
the nouveau module thing.
Unfortunately I broke my previous Trixie installation trying to get
rid of the nvidia module.
It still works with "startx" but the resolution is low.
Apt let me install the 6.9.8 kernel whereas wouldn't dist-upgrade,
probably as it had done that before.
I saw on the net to "update-initrmfs -u" so I did that.
So I think that earlier install has a kernel now free of the nvidia
but there must be some systemd left referencing stuff I've deleted
because there is some message at boot about can't find or load a
module and X wont automatically start.
I'd quite like to get that earlier install working cleanly to remind
me of what was installed.

You don't need to be able to run a system merely to list what's
installed on it. Just mount the root filesystem somewhere, like
/mnt, and type:

$ dpkg-query --admindir=/mnt/var/lib/dpkg -W --showformat '${Package}_${Version}\n' | less

Note the single quotes, to avoid the shell wiping out the format string.

Cheers,
David.