upgrading to etch after installing sarge

From: Andy Streich (andy_at_rushyglen.com)
Date: 09/29/05

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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:29:53 -0700

    Hi,

    Just installed sarge on a P4 box, then ran synaptic and upgraded to etch
    during which I got this:

    * Configuring debconf
    * unpacking replacement locales
    * preparing to replace 2.3.2.dsl-22 (using libc6_2.3.5-i386.deb)
    * [snip]
    * Name Service Switch update in C Library...
    * [snip]
    * gdm must be stopped before glibc upgrade
    * [snip]
    * Continue Y/n:

    So at that point I quit the process. This was my second pass at doing an
    install on this machine.

    The first time when I got to this point, I continued with the process and
    wound up with a "locale" problem and a warning that "udev requires kernel >=
    2.6.12 upgrade aborted." Gnome was hosed while KDE continued to work. But,
    after this second install now I have a working desktop system with both Gnome
    and KDE.

    I'm a relative noob. Had etch with the 2.4 kernel working on a P2 machine
    which literally caught on fire (black, smelly smoke kind of fire). On the
    new one I installed the 2.6.8 kernel.

    I'd like to move to etch (testing) and am wondering what to do after running
    into the above problem. Do I boot to a command prompt and run aptitude as a
    work around? Or ...?

    Andy 

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