Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Sat, 08 Oct: > Today I upgraded my laptop from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch.
I warned you against it, didn't I? Etch isfor developpers and will give you many dependency headaches. > After editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file, I used: > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > And then I ran few upgrade rounds through aptitude. what do you mean by that? didn't the dist-upgrade work smooth? > I encountered the following problems: > > 1. The udev package could not be upgraded, because the recent version > depends upon kernel version >= 2.6.13, and I have kernel version 2.6.8. yes, a known problem. I don't know why they did that, I have the same problem in sid (unstable) > I do not consider it to be serious problem. But I have to review the > HOWTO how to upgrade to new kernel version in Debian (including addition > of extra GRUB menu option, to select the new kernel). apt-get install kernel-package, get yourself a kernel and configure it, then cd into its basedir and run "make-kpkg binary-arch". this will create a pair of packages for you to install manually with dpkg - one of the kernel and another of the headers. if you like the initrd way, add --initrd to the make-kpkg line. > 2. Keyboard configuration of Gnome was lost and I had to reconfigure it > to recognize Hebrew keyboard (and cause leftshift+rightshift key this is because of XF86 -> xorg not taking all the keyboard modes along with it. not Gnome's fault. the old and new configs are still in /etc/X11. you can cut and paste manually but I suspect that's what caused the mess in the first place. To have the keyboard modes survive upgrades, enter them with "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" > 3. There were some problems with 'at' and 'drpython' packages. I > removed 'drpython' but 'at' is needed. yes, those are the little annoyances of "Debian testing". if you want to report it, run "reportbug at", but not before you made sure this was not already reported... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=at > > At this opportunity, I'd like to mention the following inconveniences: > > 1. There is an old problem with the way aptitude displays information: > In my computers, apt-listbugs is enabled, and when I upgrade, the bugs > in new packages are listed. The problem is that when I upgrade several > packages, several bugs are listed and they scroll off the top of the > console display (I always run aptitude from a virtual terminal, not from > a X-Window terminal emulator). well, apt-listbugs is not an old favourite of mine, as I'm not a "hard core" debian developper, but here are a few ideas: 1. work without it, I think most Debian unstable users do fine without it. 2. use it in xterm (why not?) or scroll back with shift-PgUp at the console. 3. note that when a package has grave or severe bugs, it lists them and asks at the prompt for your decision. one of the possibilities is "w" for displaying it in a web browser, specificly it will run /usr/bin/sensible-browser which in turn will run elinks or lynks if you are in the console or (probably) mozilla when in X. why is "less" not the default? Good question. The answer is "send in a patch to to apt-listbugs". and DO upgrade to unstable, I see the KDE transition is pretty much done. koffice is now compiled for the new libs, the only packages left behind now are small fries like kcd, krita, kpaint, kit and a few such small bits of the KDE which I gather you don't use anyway in gnome. > 2. I also noticed that some packages display "important" messages to the > sysadmin, but they do not stop the upgrade process to make sure that the > "important" messages are actually being read (when a package needs to be > configured or its configuration file was modified and needs to be > inspected, the upgrade process IS stopped at a prompt). a. some of them will also Email you that info to root (or at least they are supposed to, file a bug if they don't). b. "dpkg-reconfigure debconf" and make sure you are using "Dialog" rather than "Noninteractive" or something. Happy new year and Happy new distro :) -- spelchaker on vekeshion Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
