Re: upgrade Woody to Sarge

[john gennard]

Colin Watson wrote:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:31:05AM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:
 

On Sunday 25 January 2004 10:10 am, john gennard wrote:
   

On a new hard drive, I've installed a basic Woody (ex the 7 CD set)
to use to upgrade to Sarge.
In /etc/apt/sources.list I put:-
       'deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
non-free' and ran:-            'apt-get update'
Things seemed to go fine initially, but I finished with the following
error:-
----------
[snip]
Fetched 2827kB in 38s .......
Reading Package Lists ... Error!
E.  Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E.  Error occured while processing vrwave (NewVersion2)
E.  Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/
     

Have you run out of disk space in /var ?  - or alternatively perhaps in /tmp 
or swap
   

No, he hasn't. Or at least, that's not the problem.

John, if you just added that sources.list line and didn't remove the
corresponding one for stable, then do so now. 

I'm ok there, Colin, as I only had entries for cdrom access plus the 
security update http
entry which I commented out.

If that doesn't help, then
try putting 'APT::Cache-Limit "16777216";' in /etc/apt/apt.conf (create
it if it doesn't exist) and trying again.
 

Haven't tried this. After posting, I tried a number of things (brute 
force and ignorance) and
eventually got 'update' to work by using:-
        'deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib'
           (ie changing 'http' to 'ftp' and deleting 'non-free')

However, I had to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' five times before it 
stopped complaining,
and by that time it had removed almost all kde pkgs and installed over 
500mb of packages
I didn't ask for. Mind you, I think I learned a lot about what was 
involved in the way of
changed approaches.

In my ignorance, I assumed that only those packages I had installed (I 
deliberately made
only a minimal install) would be upgraded. Does this always happen, I 
wonder?

If you need to do the second step, then please report that together with
the complete contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list. We'll need to know
this for the sarge release notes.
The sources.list contained only the entries made during the install from 
the official 7 CD set,
and the http security entry also created by the install program, plus 
the single line I inserted
and then amended.
Let me know if you think more information would be useful to you.

Thanks for the reply,

John.

Cheers,

 



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