Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch


On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Chris Austin wrote:
Hi,

I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed
it
from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted
to

... snipped woes of a partial upgrade ...

hit an error trying to upgrade libc6, even after I exited KDE and tried
to
stop kdm with the kill signal in top. I then found that kdm no longer
restarted KDE,

...

Chris, I'm quite sure that this kind of partial upgrade is completely
unsupported. It also appears that you've borked the system
sufficiently well that you're better off starting from
scratch. sorry. Debian went through some serious changes between
woody and etch -- a whole new X system, a whole new libc, among
others. Your would be better spent backing up what you need and
reinstalling etch. It is surely possible to save your system, but it
will probably be very time-consuming and you will end up with an etch
system anyway.

I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only
use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody and being slap-dash, I
tried to install a piece of software using apt-get, which promptly failed.

Seeing the conversation above, it sounds bad - but I'm going to try
something otherwise I have to ask the hosting co to wipe my Xen slice for
me.

If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade
to sarge OK? Or is it too late?

I just want to install galrey to generate some image galleries for some
images I scp'd over. I guess I could find a java webapp which could do this
too if this fails.

Thanks!
Adam

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