Mark Huff wrote: > I performed some work for a company on a Debian Linux system with the > prompt on the system (no graphic frontends, etc) indicated it was a > Debian 3.0 (Woody) built. The initial issue was a user outside of the > company could not get an email sent to a user on the company's > server. The company I was performing the work for is using Exim for > the mail server, SMTP transactions are not logged. > > Because of the above fact, I desired to move them to Postfix email. > As the system was showing me Woody build, I started dselect using the > repository for debian sarge stable build (as I have in the past > installed Sarge release candidates from 8/04). Dselect indicated > numberous upgrades available for the system (which the system needed > regardless). I started the update process, and Perl immediately > crashed. User data, email access from pop/smtp, passwords, etc, were > not effected, but web mail access via neomail was, needless to say, > broken. > In doing a little research, I found a Debian 2.2 cd (labeled disk1), a > Debian 3.0 cd (labeled disk1), and a Debian 3.1 cd (labeled disk1) > laying near this system. What I am thinking is that while they may > have upgraded enough of the Debian 2.2 for the prompt to indicate is > was a Woody 3.0 system, there was still quite a bit of 2.2 (the perl > is what I think was not upgraded), so that when the Perl 5.8.6 from > the new stable build tried to install, the stuff on the system was so > old that the install broke, and broke the perl that was on the system. >
Depends on how they upgraded. If they just did an update/upgrade, yeah, they've probably done what you think; upgraded the system far enough to read 3.0, but not far enough to fix any brokenness. If they did an update/dist-upgrade, then I'd suspect something else is wrong. If I were you, I'd do an update/dist-upgrade, to see if that brings the system back to functionality. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
