Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)



Mark Grieveson wrote:


Hello. Just some info for those considering upgrading from Sarge to
Etch (or Sid). I just upgraded my system from Debian Sarge, to Debian
Sid. I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, but circumstances drove me
to Sid. I changed the repositories in my sources.list from sarge to
etch, and proceded. After a while it gave an error reading, claiming
that to upgrade udev, the kernel image had to be greater than 2.6.12 (I
was using 2.6.8). When trying to install the 2.6.15 kernel image, it
complained that a newer version of udev was required. The xserver
protested, committing hare-kare, and I was left using Lynx, and Pico
(not the cutting edge software I had been anticipating, needless to
say.) Running "apt-get -f install" did nothing. I then altered the
sources from Etch, to Sid, and, giving me hope, various changes
occurred. However, it left me with the same message, that the new udev
was required. I rebooted using the 2.4.27 kernel image, and ran
"apt-get -f install", and, strangely enough, it worked. The new kernel
installed, udev installed, the xserver came back to life, and I ended up
in an XFCE desktop, with my home directory in tact. An unexpected
surprise, to be sure, though I'm quite happy to have salvaged my system.
I'm hoping one day that I'll be samrt and actually make a back-up of my
system before trying stuff like upgrading again. My OpenOffice.org 2.0
(converted from alien) seems to have vanished. I think my gnome desktop
environment is a casualty as well, but at least my home directory still
exists.



The solution to this is to uninstall the initrd-tools package and to
install yaird and then install the new kernel.


Uhg! I had it working reasonably well, and then THIS EMAIL CAME, and buggered everything up once again! I am going to sentence myself to write, a thousand times over, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Anyway, after removing initrd-tools, installing yaird, and reinstalling the new kernel image, it broke. Thankfully, I've got my system half working again by reinstalling initrd-tools. My web-server is still not working however, and there's still oodles of errors. Yikes.


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Possible convert to Debian
    ... > I've toyed with Debian and Knoppix a bit, ... It sounds like Sid is actually pretty stable, ... Then of course you'd want to upgrade ... Knoppix wanted to install everything into one 2GB or ...
    (Debian-User)
  • cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade
    ... I just upgraded my etch to lenny, ... aptitude ofer a few days did it. ... install is postfix-doc, which I suspect I don't need to worry about. ... fine on etch before the upgrade, and still works fine when I boot my ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)
    ... Etch (or Sid). ... I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, ... When trying to install the 2.6.15 kernel image, ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: hosed etch upgrade
    ... Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... ... I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for a while and when etch was formally released like an idiot decided I could do the final upgrade without reading the upgrade documents... ... To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject of "unsubscribe". ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: Release of Stable Etch
    ... Sarge was still in testing at the time. ... Sarge had a problem, where during the upgrade The Xserver was shutdown, and I ... Sources on this one are now pointing to Etch, ... This Etch install will go back onto testing when Etch goes stable, ...
    (Debian-User)