Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Gane
On 02/03/2011 17:30, Martin Guy wrote: Hi I just upgraded a Thecus N2100, populated with lots of languages and dev packages, from lenny to squeeze. This worked fine, following the kernel+udev+reboot+dist-upgrade method. Nice work, team! Summary: the upgrade worked as described and would have g

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Guy
Hi I just upgraded a Thecus N2100, populated with lots of languages and dev packages, from lenny to squeeze. This worked fine, following the kernel+udev+reboot+dist-upgrade method. Nice work, team! Summary: the upgrade worked as described and would have given a working system, but watching the co

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-03-01 Thread Björn Wetterbom
I have now upgraded my nslu2 successfully. There was only one hiccup. The minimal system upgrade went fine, as well as kernel and udev upgrades. During the dist-upgrade, I left the ssh/screen session unattended. When I came back, I could see that the process had completed without any obvious erro

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-27 Thread Groug
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 22:33 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:38, Groug wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:29 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > >> > Success at last ! > >> > > >> > I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I > >> > had wit

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/26/2011 02:23 AM, John Winters wrote: > I suggest removing this package (apt-xapian) if you're running Squeeze > on a slug. I concur with this. I had the same experience on an NSLU2. I attribute the problem basically to lack of RAM. I wonder if we shouldn't contribute a patch to apt-xapia

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:38, Groug wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:29 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: >> > Success at last ! >> > >> > I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I >> > had with dep: >> > >> > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usb

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-26 Thread Groug
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:29 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > > Success at last ! > > > > I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I > > had with dep: > > > > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko > > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drive

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:31, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:01, Martin Michlmayr wrote: >> * Gordon Farquharson [2011-02-24 22:30]: >>> I was thinking about whether to file a bug today. USB devices are >>> generally not permanently attached to the computer, so is it >>>

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread John Winters
On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the RAID uuid changing. My basic upgrade to Squeeze was satisfactorily dull. It took a while but had no issues at all. One problem did rear its head

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:59, Groug wrote: > Success at last ! > > I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I > had with dep: BTW, I wouldn't recommend this solution as a long-term fix. In the future, the initramfs is likely to get too large to fit into the flash.

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
> Success at last ! > > I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I > had with dep: > > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/s

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Groug
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 11:30 +0100, Groug wrote: > On 02/24/2011 06:45 PM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:07, Groug wrote: > > > >> I have (or better say had) a nslu2 running lenny. I've dist-upgraded > >> to squeeze: no errors but the nslu2 won't reboot: during the boot >

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:30, Groug wrote: > On 02/24/2011 06:45 PM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: >> sure that you have upgraded both udev and the kernel? According to the >> release notes, the squeeze udev will not work properly with the lenny > > Ouch... I missed that and now I have lenny kernel a

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:01, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Gordon Farquharson [2011-02-24 22:30]: >> I was thinking about whether to file a bug today. USB devices are >> generally not permanently attached to the computer, so is it >> reasonable to expect MODULES=dep to include the drivers specifi

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Groug
On 02/24/2011 06:45 PM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:07, Groug wrote: I have (or better say had) a nslu2 running lenny. I've dist-upgraded to squeeze: no errors but the nslu2 won't reboot: during the boot sequence, the usb hard disk gets shutdowned and nothing more happ

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Martin On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 13:13, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I think you should file a bug on initramfs-tools saying that this > module is missing when you use MODULES=dep. I was thinking about whether to file a bug today. USB devices are generally not permanently attached to the computer

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gordon Farquharson [2011-02-24 11:39]: > It turns out that I was missing ums-cypress.ko in my initramfs. My > RAID devices are in two different USB enclosures (which, admittedly, > is a little strange). The one USB enclosure only requires usb-storage > which was included in the initramfs, but th

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:14, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 00:51, John Winters wrote: > >> Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order >> to test them? Is it just the usual >> >> >> Edit /etc/apt/sources.list >> apt-get update >> apt-get install

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 00:51, John Winters wrote: > Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order > to test them? Is it just the usual > > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list > apt-get update > apt-get install linux-image- > apt-get install udev > reboot > apt-get upgrade > ap

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:07, Groug wrote: > I have (or better say had) a nslu2 running lenny. I've dist-upgraded > to squeeze: no errors but the nslu2 won't reboot: during the boot > sequence, the usb hard disk gets shutdowned and nothing more > happens. Fortunately, I could restore the flash w

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Groug
On 02/24/2011 09:51 AM, John Winters wrote: I have a turbo-slug which isn't doing much and is running pretty vanilla Lenny. I could upgrade that to Squeeze as a test case if it would help. Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order to test them? Is it just the usual

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Yup, that's it. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:51, John Winters wrote: > On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > [snip] > > >> I upgraded a NSLU2 to squeeze yesterday without any problems but the >> system was a base system of lenny without any additional software >> installed. >> >> It would b

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread John Winters
On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I upgraded a NSLU2 to squeeze yesterday without any problems but the system was a base system of lenny without any additional software installed. It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the RAI

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-23 Thread u7l11ey
Martin Michlmayr wrote: > It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one > problem report about the RAID uuid changing. What does it take to do a successful upgrade on a slug? Is it really just replacing "lenny" by "squeeze" in /etc/apt/sources.list ? What about the "non-f

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom [2011-02-22 09:54]: > Following the recent conversations regarding upgrade problems I > would appreciate some success stories before I attempt the upgrade > on my (production) machines. Anyone willing to share? Please state > your device type as well (I run an NSLU2 and a TS-209

Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-22 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Following the recent conversations regarding upgrade problems I would appreciate some success stories before I attempt the upgrade on my (production) machines. Anyone willing to share? Please state your device type as well (I run an NSLU2 and a TS-209 with Lenny). Thanks Björn