On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 19:50:22 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > My server upgrade from squeeze to wheezy just failed. But I'm not > panicking, I can still dual-boot into a back-up squeeze partition, and > squeeze still works perfectly. > > I just upgraded my server from squeeze to wheezy. Lots of packages > failed to upgrade because of dependency problems. Now it's normal to > have a few like this in a testing system, as packages leak through from > sid, so I wasn't too worried about this -- normally just wait a few days > and the missing dependencies show up. > > But enough are missing that wheezy is not really usable. > > It fails to recognise any network interfaces. It used to recognise an > eth0, an eth1, and a ppp0, but now ifconfig reports nothing. Of course, > this might not even be the fault of the missing packages. Maybe udev is > wrong. Yes, I started the upgrade with the kernel and udev. They should > match. > > I'm not sure where to start looking. > > apt-get dist-upgrade just reports a lot of unresolved dependencies. I'm > not clear what to do next. apt-get suggests using apt-get -f install. > But which packages do I do this to? Or do I misunderstand?
The idea is that 'apt-get -f install' by itself should sort out missing dependencies for a package. It will first look in /var/cache/apt/archives for them and next download from the mirror you are using if they are not there. The latter looks like a problem for you if there are no network interfaces :). You pobably should look at this first and see what the kernel is getting up to. The output of 'dmesg' after booting might help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120929101839.GC22368@desktop
