Hello, I upgraded my desktop system last night from sarge to etch, and at the end it went very well. After a single reboot the new kernel, xorg, and KDE came up. Impressive that it run for hours and it came in a very usable state.
There have been a few glitches during the upgrade though, which I was able to fix. I want to share my upgrade summary, hope it helps to make etch even better. Thanks, Rainer Desktop upgrade report ====================== Starting point: --------------- This desktop was upgraded from woody before, i.e. no sarge install. And it had packages from backports.org After I saw there are concerns against aptitude from unstable, because it saw little testing, I selected aptitude from unstable for the upgrade. Note that I have sid and etch in sources.list but preference points towards etch. It seems apt prints it takes the sid version, when both are identical. The typescript of the upgrade is here: http://www.alzental-castle.de/~rd/upgrade-to-etch/ Summary of issues: ------------------------- -> aptitude refused the upgrade: No soultion found for the conflicts open: 11182; closed: 4969; defer: 0; conflict: 3 No solution found within the allotted time. Try harder? [Y/n] Not sure if aptitude from etch would have done better here. I went with apt-get for the critical part. -> during the upgrade apt wanted to remove the running kernel Wanted to remove the running kernel, but asked before: Remove the running kernel image (not recommended) [No]? -> postgres-client upgrade confused apt/dpkg completely. Installation of all following packages failed Preparing to replace postgresql-client 7.4.7-6sarge4 (using .../postgresql-client_7.5.22_all.deb) ... install: `/var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.4': Not a directory dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql-client_7.5.22_all.deb (--unpack): there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up dpkg: considering removing postgresql-client in favour of postgresql-client-common ... dpkg: yes, will remove postgresql-client in favour of postgresql-client-common. Unpacking postgresql-client-common (from .../postgresql-client-common_71_all.deb) ... install: `/var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.4': Not a directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql-client-common_71_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Unpacking postgresql-client-7.4 (from .../postgresql-client-7.4_1%3a7.4.16-1_i386.deb) ... install: `/var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.4': Not a directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql-client-7.4_1%3a7.4.16-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Preparing to replace powernowd 0.90-3 (using .../powernowd_0.97-1_i386.deb) ... Stopping powernowd: powernowd. install: `/var/lib/postgres/dumpall/7.4': Not a directory Why is powernowd worried about postgres/dumpall/7.4 ??? -> The new kernel was picked up automatically during userspace upgrade. And install failed. (I think) I fixed that manually later. Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-11) ... Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/source However, I can not read the target: No such file or directory Therefore, I am deleting /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/source Running depmod. Finding valid ramdisk creators. Using mkinitrd.yaird to build the ramdisk. yaird error: command not found: /usr/bin/ldd (fatal) mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image. Failed to create initrd image. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 Certainly there is an /usr/bin/ldd silverboxy:/etc/cups# ls -l /usr/bin/ldd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5972 Feb 21 16:13 /usr/bin/ldd silverboxy:/etc/cups# -> apt-proxy gets removed during aptitude upgrade. When apt-proxy is used for the upgrade, the upgrade is broken. So no upgrades with apt-proxy on localhost are possible with that method. -> Annoying aptitude cycle towards the end aptitude dist-upgrade decided to remove a few packages each run -> bittornado had an upgrade problem Had to remove btdownloadheadless silverboxy:~# mv /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/btdownloadheadless . (see typescript for details) What I missed: -------------- - create a repair CD *before* upgrading (at least for the ones which want to be on the save side). - update iceweasel early to have a working browser in case something goes wrong -> everything went fine, so no problem not having this stuff. -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07032-359190 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/
