i finally pulled the trigger on this, almost 300 packages upgraded, rebooted and here are some of the (apparently non-fatal) issues i ran across:
1) my /etc/aliases.db file was deleted. no problem, i just recreated it with # postalias hash:/etc/aliases easy enough to fix but should i have expected that? couldn't something that obvious be part of the automatic upgrade process? 2) log error that there was no permission to read /etc/ldap/slapd.conf, not surprising since the perms on that file were: root root -rw------- changed perms to 644, that seems to have solved that problem. should i have expected that as well? or was there a better way to solve that access problem? 3) in fact, running "aptitude upgrade" tells me that slapd is still only partially configured, but trying to finish the configuration gives me: ===== Setting up slapd (2.4.11-1) ... Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.conf in /var/backups/slapd-2.3.30-5+etch2... done. Upgrading BDB 'checkpoint' options... . Moving old database directories to /var/backups: Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.3.30-5+etch2: - directory dc=<XXXXXX>,dc=com... failed. Loading the database from the LDIF dump failed with the following error while running slapadd: /etc/ldap/slapd.conf: line 50: unknown directive <defaultaccess> outside backend info and database definitions. slapadd: bad configuration file! dpkg: error processing slapd (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ===== i'm not an LDAP expert -- can i just comment out the offending line? defaultaccess write i'm guessing there's been a change in the syntax of that config file and i just have to read up on it. off to check if there are any more issues, but if that's the extent of them, i'm in good shape. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org