>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 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mishap-upgrading-from-Woody-to-Etch-tp12582403p18028029.html Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
