On 19:43 Tue 22 Jul , Mumia W.. wrote: > On 07/22/2008 04:26 PM, Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am upgrading an old server to etch to be able to use new sata drives. I >> followed >> the release notes. >> > > You only need a kernel upgrade for that.
I think sometimes kernel brings in other stuff unless I rely strongly on backports, which I would rather not do for a production server ... vanilla release is best for me I find... > Place "set -x" at the top. cool > >> and 2. find the script - where is it kept? > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.preinst It turned out I had a very old udev on my sarge system that was messing up the upgrade because the new udev did not like it. so i did: dpkg --purge udev then apt-get install udev apt-get install -f and I was ok. thank you ! > Udev is not absolutely necessary for many systems. When I upgraded to > Etch from Sarge, I left udev disabled for several months. The static > device nodes work fine under Etch, so I disabled udev by removing > execute permissions from udev and udev-mtab in /etc/init.d/ . > > I'm not a big fan of udev because of the consternation it has caused me > and others. > I agree, I actually disabled udev myself for all of my sarge servers. I have gone back to it for etch. It seems more stable now. Thanks, Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
