Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:59:28PM +0200, Thomas Amm wrote: > On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 16:46 -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark > > [...] > > Regards > > > > Conrats! You have just made it into everybody's kill file. A somewhat friendl

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-13 Thread Thomas Amm
On Mon, 2021-09-06 at 16:46 -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark > [...] > Regards > Conrats! You have just made it into everybody's kill file.

Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 06 sep 21, 16:46:24, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > > Em 06/09/2021 14:25, John Hasler escreveu: > > Curt writes: > >> I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird > >> to compose your email as plain text > > Or even as "normal" HTML. > > If it is trivial to me setting my mail

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-07 Thread Richard Hector
On 7/09/21 5:25 am, John Hasler wrote: Curt writes: I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird to compose your email as plain text Curt didn't write that; I did. Please be careful with your attributions. I'm intrigued to know how this mistake happened, however. Were you per

Re: Partially Solved: OT: Why have I not received any messages from Dedeco (was: Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright))

2021-09-07 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, September 07, 2021 12:27:32 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > Can you add Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org to your > > whitelist? Or isn't it possible to use Resent-From? > > Thanks, I'll have to look into that -- that would be something I have to do > for / at google and I

Re: Partially Solved: OT: Why have I not received any messages from Dedeco (was: Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright))

2021-09-07 Thread Dedeco Balaco
One or two days after i tried to subscribe using the site, I received a warning from this list saying that several messages were bounced by Yahoo. It also said that if more bounces happen, i may be unsubscribed. So, the subscribing messages i tried to make did not even arrived to my spam folder - i

Re: Partially Solved: OT: Why have I not received any messages from Dedeco (was: Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright))

2021-09-07 Thread rhkramer
Thanks for the reply, some responses interspersed below: On Tuesday, September 07, 2021 11:07:36 AM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 07 Sep 2021 at 08:49:19 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > -- I don't remember that message very well). > > Probably like: > > "In the last seven days we've seen

Re: Partially Solved: OT: Why have I not received any messages from Dedeco (was: Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright))

2021-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Tue 07 Sep 2021 at 08:49:19 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I occasionally seem to lose other messages (I get the message from the debian- > user lists about about some (small number of) messages beeing undeliverable > in the last day or so (can't remember the term used, and maybe there

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-07 Thread David Wright
' it. I don't see how that works. Once you've upgraded by one version, downgrading it again is a non-trivial operation. But I found it difficult to follow precisely the steps you took. > A more detailed story is in the thread i pointed in my first message here: > > https:/

Partially Solved: OT: Why have I not received any messages from Dedeco (was: Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright))

2021-09-07 Thread rhkramer
I asked and then answered my own question -- google decided the messages from Dedeco were spam, with this message when I open one (in google mail): This message seems dangerous Similar messages were used to steal people's personal information. Avoid clicking links, downloading attachments, or

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-07 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Em 07/09/2021 03:28, Andrew M.A. Cater escreveu: > It has been repeated a few times in different > places that you can't jump a release straightforwardly, so it has to > be 9 -> 10 -> 11. > Yes. People in the forum also told me this. But the problem was something else. > Having remade all th

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 12:20:26AM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > My issue happened (this is my conclusion) because my Debian 9 was not > updated when I followed the steps to change sources.list to those of > Debian 10. This is something that should be added in Debian > documentation, in my opinion.

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
by not rebooting the computer after > each 'apt upgrade' for the next version. So, i ended up with a computer > with packages and sources.list of Debian 11, but it was not quite that. > So, i remade all steps. And my first steps were to restore my Debian 9 > sources.list,

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 7:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 04:46:21PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark > > background i need, and to make it ignore the (usually default) > > background of color of all HTML messages,

Re: (HTML) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 3:47 PM Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > > Em 06/09/2021 14:25, John Hasler escreveu: > > Curt writes: > > I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird > to compose your email as plain text > > Or even as "normal" HTML. > > If it is trivial to me setting my mail man

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 04:46:21PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark > background i need, and to make it ignore the (usually default) > background of color of all HTML messages, why the people in Debian User > list cannot do it? I will not

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread piorunz
On 06/09/2021 21:50, Dan Ritter wrote: Here is reality: Nobody here is obligated to help you. At all. If we do, it's out of the goodness of our hearts. If we don't, it could be: because we don't know the answer or because you are being rude This is a place where people send questions in plain

Re: (pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Dedeco Balaco wrote: > > Em 06/09/2021 14:25, John Hasler escreveu: > > Curt writes: > >> I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird > >> to compose your email as plain text > > > > Or even as "normal" HTML. > > > > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the d

(pure text) Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Em 06/09/2021 14:25, John Hasler escreveu: > Curt writes: >> I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird >> to compose your email as plain text > > Or even as "normal" HTML. > If it is trivial to me setting my mail manager to use the dark background i need, and to make it ig

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread John Hasler
Curt writes: > I suggest you follow the earlier advice, and set Thunderbird > to compose your email as plain text Or even as "normal" HTML. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-06 Thread piorunz
On 06/09/2021 01:01, Dedeco Balaco wrote: No. I do not want to edit emails with the traditional "black over white" area. And I have seen that the colors I send can be ignored. And Thunderbird also sends a pure text message together with the HTML messages I prefer to use. Thank you I will feel

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Curt
On 2021-09-06, Dedeco Balaco wrote: >> manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. W: GPG >> error: http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease: The >> following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is >> not available: NO_PUBKEY 648ACFD622F3D138 NO

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian (reply to David Wright)

2021-09-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 6/09/21 1:20 pm, Dedeco Balaco wrote: 3. Tried to do 'apt update' as root, but it does not work. GPG signature error. 21:18:54 [ 0] root@compo: /etc/apt # apt-mark hold firefox-esr firefox-esr-l10n-pt-br thunderbird thunderbird-l10n-pt-br firefox-esr set on hold. firefox-esr-l10n-pt-br set o

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-05 Thread tomas
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 09:01:22PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: [...] > I did not receive the Greg answer. The only 3 messages I have in my > folder now are the 2 you sent, and the one I receive for my message: Here's the start of the thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/09/thread

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-05 Thread Dedeco Balaco
Em 05-09-2021 19:10, piorunz escreveu: > On 05/09/2021 05:27, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > >> What should i do to solve this? > You reposted your question two hours later, so I repost the solution and > CC you as well. I am sorry it was reposted. I had trouble subscribing to the list, using the site,

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-05 Thread piorunz
On 05/09/2021 05:27, Dedeco Balaco wrote: What should i do to solve this? You reposted your question two hours later, so I repost the solution and CC you as well. 1. Start by reading the error message. If you can't understand it, then paste it here. As Greg Wooledge already said. 2. Disable

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-04 Thread David Wright
tion, i did not find this explanation. It says it can be done, > but it does not explain how to do it. > > So, i opened the following thread. Do not read it now, there are more > things i will say here, first. > > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/upgradi

Re: Trouble upgrading Debian

2021-09-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 11:04:49PM -0300, Dedeco Balaco wrote: > So, i should to 2 upgrades: one to Debian 10, and one more to Debian 11. > Fine. And for each one, the steps are: > But after my first edition to sources.list, apt update fails. I have > tried apt-get update to, but it also fails for

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy)

2020-09-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 27 Aug 2020 at 19:44:56 (-0500), R. Ramesh wrote: > I finally decided to move from debian 7 to 10. As a first step I > wanted to upgrade to debian 8 (jesse) > > I changed all ftp.us.debian.org part in /etc/apt/sources.list to > archive.debian.org and tried aptitude update and got the follow

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 12:43:35PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: >   My only wish is apt is updated to say something about  the fact > that this is unsupported and users are on their own, but still > provide the download/install without we having to manually > intervene. I think¹ that there are

Re: Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread R. Ramesh
The expired keys do complicate life but my understanding of the rationale is that the limited key lifetime serves as a sort of contract regarding the integrity of the files. Once a release has been archived it does not fall under that promise from the project any more and so the expired keys serve

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:23:33PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback. There > are subtle changes that I could not get right in the past, so I chose > upgrade path. Last year I did do a squeeze to stretch upgrade by upgrading to eac

Re: Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
That said, Wheezy is  *way*  too far away from Buster!  For example,  "Update in Place" is likely to fail, because of SystemD changes.  (Heck, I had trouble updating Stretch to Buster in Place, but some of that was User Error). I did think about fresh install, but every method has its drawback

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 2/9/20 3:56 am, Kenneth Parker wrote: My Recommendation, if it isn't too late, is to Install Buster in a separate Partition, and then copy /home files as desired. Reclaim the Wheezy Partition when you are sure that you don't need it anymore. +1 FWIW I'd recommend this course for most ma

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020, 12:17 PM R. Ramesh wrote: > My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the > information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and > jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue > copy of the current install di

Re: Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy) (solved)

2020-09-01 Thread R. Ramesh
My attempts to upgrade to Jesse (8) did not work at all and all the information on the net seem old and not current that Buster is out and jesse is already archived. Anyway, after looking around, I made ddrescue copy of the current install disk (only 64GB, so easy) first and then directly upgra

Trouble with upgrading debian 7 (wheezy)

2020-08-27 Thread R. Ramesh
I finally decided to move from debian 7 to 10. As a first step I wanted to upgrade to debian 8 (jesse) I changed all ftp.us.debian.org part in /etc/apt/sources.list to archive.debian.org and tried aptitude update and got the following error W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org wheezy Release

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread Seeker
On 9/14/2015 2:33 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: I know. It took me a while to work out what he actually wanted with all the drama. ;-) People who come from Ubuntu don't understand about point releases. Since I don't know Ubuntu, I don't know what it is that they are thinking of. Lisi I do run Ub

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > > I just want to make sure ag

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread David Wright
Quoting Himanshu Shekhar (irm2015...@iiita.ac.in): > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version of Debian > to other without losing data or without formatiing the partition, simply as > Ubuntu does. The more times you ask, the more different answers you will receive. At s

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 September 2015 14:01:48 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:12:42AM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > > On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > version of Debian to other without losing data or wi

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:12:42AM +0300, Jarle Aase wrote: > On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlie

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 14 September 2015 05:00:01 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > > version

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > > > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > > > formatiing t

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 13 September 2015 16:13:19 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version > > of Debian to other without losing data or without formatiing the > > partition, simply as Ubuntu does. > > An earlie

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version > of Debian to other without losing data or without formatiing the > partition, simply as Ubuntu does. > An earlier mail in this mailing list stated to reboot from iso image > and in

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:23:29AM +0200, pasc...@sdf.lonestar.org wrote: [...] > Same (almost) for me: > > $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade > > $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > > (I don't remember if I even needed to reboot) Reboot

Re: upgrading debian 8.1 to 8.2

2015-09-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 10 September 2015 09:17:48 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > i have debian jessie 8.1 on my laptop and wish to upgrade it to 8.2 without > messing with the much configuration i have done and without losing any of > the packages installed. > please don't give any suggestion or method you are not

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 13 September 2015 08:57:49 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version of > Debian to other without losing data or without formatiing the partition, > simply as Ubuntu does. We don't know Ubuntu. Don't expect us to give you instructions

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread pascalv
On 2015-09-13 10:12, Jarle Aase wrote: On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version of Debian to other without losing data or without formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlier mail in this mailing list stat

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi, Le 13/09/2015 09:57, Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version > of Debian to other without losing data or without formatiing the > partition, simply as Ubuntu does. I think you're looking for this : https://www.debian.org/releases/stab

Re: Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Jarle Aase
On 09/13/2015 10:57 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one > version of Debian to other without losing data or without > formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlier mail in > this mailing list stated to reboot from iso image and in

Upgrading Debian

2015-09-13 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I just want to make sure again. How can one upgrade from one version of Debian to other without losing data or without formatiing the partition, simply as Ubuntu does. An earlier mail in this mailing list stated to reboot from iso image and install in the same old traditional way. This Facebook pos

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-10 Thread songbird
Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: > Thanks for all replies. > > > Didn't know about about snapshot.debian.org > Looks like the best way to go in this situation. much easier than another method (get specific package version numbers and force upgrades to those versions). songbird

Re: upgrading debian 8.1 to 8.2

2015-09-10 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Updating between point releases is the same as any other update: apt-get update apt-get upgrade Regards, /peter Am 10.09.2015 um 10:17 schrieb Himanshu Shekhar: > i have debian jessie 8.1 on my laptop and wish to upgrade it to > 8.2 without m

upgrading debian 8.1 to 8.2

2015-09-10 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
i have debian jessie 8.1 on my laptop and wish to upgrade it to 8.2 without messing with the much configuration i have done and without losing any of the packages installed. please don't give any suggestion or method you are not confident of. -- Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-10 Thread Joris Schoolmeesters
Thanks for all replies. Didn't know about about snapshot.debian.org Looks like the best way to go in this situation. 2015-09-09 14:15 GMT+02:00 songbird : > Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> With Debian 7.9 out in the wild, apt-get will upgrade you >> automatically to 7.9 on Debian

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-09 Thread songbird
Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: > Hi all, > > With Debian 7.9 out in the wild, apt-get will upgrade you > automatically to 7.9 on Debian 7. > > Is there a way to upgrade from 7.7 to 7.8 ? the easiest way is probably by looking up the release date and then using: snapshot.debian.org songbird

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-09 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/9/15, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 08:38:43AM +0200, Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: >> >> Is there a way to upgrade from 7.7 to 7.8 ? > > The FAQ should cover it: there isn't a great deal of difference between > point upgrades > - they roll up security fixes about once a qu

Re: Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 08:38:43AM +0200, Joris Schoolmeesters wrote: > Hi all, > > With Debian 7.9 out in the wild, apt-get will upgrade you > automatically to 7.9 on Debian 7. > > Is there a way to upgrade from 7.7 to 7.8 ? > > Thanks in advance, > Joris You could install packages from 7.8 me

Upgrading debian to specific minor version

2015-09-08 Thread Joris Schoolmeesters
Hi all, With Debian 7.9 out in the wild, apt-get will upgrade you automatically to 7.9 on Debian 7. Is there a way to upgrade from 7.7 to 7.8 ? Thanks in advance, Joris

Re: Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-28 Thread Tim Long
Thanks for spotting of the error in the sources.list. It error message was confusing me. I did run apt-get dist-upgrade after apt-get update. The process ground to a halt with a problem over dependency error over 'default-jre' After googling the new error I had to run: apt-get -o APT::Immediate

Re: Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-27 Thread Morel Bérenger
And what about #apt-get dist-upgrade or #aptitude safe-upgrade ? -- 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/d6a6eea37c974ce57bcb30a25ff2ff2a.squir...@www.sud-oue

Re: Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-26 Thread Wayne Topa
On 11/26/2012 09:08 PM, Tim Long wrote: Hi all, I have an installation of debian stable I am trying to upgrade to testing. I have updated sources.list to testing/wheezy but when I do apt-get upgrade I get the following error: = W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/tes

Error upgrading debian installation from stable to testing : malformed Release file?

2012-11-26 Thread Tim Long
Hi all, I have an installation of debian stable I am trying to upgrade to testing. I have updated sources.list to testing/wheezy but when I do apt-get upgrade I get the following error: = W: Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/testing/Release Unable to find expected entr

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-05 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 18:10 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kun Niu wrote: > > Somewhere on debian.org are pages on how to upgrade from Woody to Etch. So, > > I'd read them first and try it. > > What about sarge? IIRC, it was woody -> sarge -> etch -> lenny. > > You'd have to find a sarge

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kun Niu wrote: > Somewhere on debian.org are pages on how to upgrade from Woody to Etch. So, > I'd read them first and try it. What about sarge? IIRC, it was woody -> sarge -> etch -> lenny. You'd have to find a sarge archive to upgrade to, though.

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-05 Thread Brian
> > Yes. That's what I want. Would that be too dangerous? > > We've encountered the boot failure problem. > > But the system works fine when switching back to the old 2.4 kernel. > > > > I don't think that Debian ever supports skipping major releases, and also I > think that before moving to Etch

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-05 Thread Kun Niu
That would be really appreciated. Have you got that email? 2009/8/5 Siggy Brentrup > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:05 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > > Just wish me good luck then. > > Or I'll have to go thousands of miles to check my system. > > That'll be really awesome for me. > > And a live cd will be

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:05 +0800, Kun Niu wrote: > Just wish me good luck then. > Or I'll have to go thousands of miles to check my system. > That'll be really awesome for me. > And a live cd will be a really good idea. > Thank you for your kind reply. > > On 2009-08-04 22:41, Kun Niu wrote: >

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Kun Niu
Just wish me good luck then. Or I'll have to go thousands of miles to check my system. That'll be really awesome for me. And a live cd will be a really good idea. Thank you for your kind reply. On 2009-08-04 22:41, Kun Niu wrote: [snip] > We've encountered the problem upgrading the kernel to 2.6

Re: Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 22:21, Kun Niu wrote: Dear all, My debian system was installed on Sep. 2005. Now, we've decided to upgrade my present system via apt-get to the latest stable debian branch. Our kenel is 2.4.21. What a *boring* system. But... boring can be good! We've encountered the problem upg

Anyone has the experience of upgrading Debian from woody to lenny?

2009-08-04 Thread Kun Niu
Dear all, My debian system was installed on Sep. 2005. Now, we've decided to upgrade my present system via apt-get to the latest stable debian branch. Our kenel is 2.4.21. We've encountered the problem upgrading the kernel to 2.6.8. It seems that apt-get fail to execute the update-initramfs and the

Re: Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Alex Teclo
2008/1/9, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Alex Teclo wrote: > > [snip] > > I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life > > stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. > > This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it > > might be s

Re: Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Alex Teclo wrote: [snip] I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it might be some due to the installation of a new version of some package. This is Se

Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Alex Teclo
Hello, I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it might be some due to the installation of a new version of some package. Let's do grep "status installed

Troubles related to VMWare after upgrading Debian to Xorg v7

2006-06-13 Thread Josep Serrano
Hello list. Here some hints related to VMWare I found after upgrading a debian box to Xorg7 in a hosted system. If you download a package xserver-xorg-video-all it will install for you all video drivers. Actually you just need the package xserver-xorg-video-vmware and you can remove all other

Re: Upgrading Debian 3.1 kernel from 2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.8-3-686-smp, but had complications with 2.6.x kernel at Debian installer

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:27:16PM -0400, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > What I'm wondering now is if we upgrade to the 2.6.8-3-686-smp kernel via > apt would it have any ill effects (i.e. it can't detect any hard disks > again)? If you're willing to sacrifice your uptime, you can install the kerne

Upgrading Debian 3.1 kernel from 2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.8-3-686-smp, but had complications with 2.6.x kernel at Debian installer

2006-04-07 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Hello everyone, In the very beginning, our intention was to install Debian 3.1 Sarge with the 2.6.8 kernel (via 'linux26' at install prompt) on our Dell PowerEdge 2800 server, but at the step in the installation process where it was suppose to partition the hard disks, it gave an error citing n

Re: Surprise upgrading Debian packages!

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:02:04PM +0200, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:12:28AM -0700, nuno romano wrote: > > I have a background with several Linux > > distributions,and when I want to upgrade > > one package,I download the source package > > (or binary,if compatible) through

Re: Surprise upgrading Debian packages!

2005-05-26 Thread Ionut Georgescu
On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:12:28AM -0700, nuno romano wrote: > I have a background with several Linux > distributions,and when I want to upgrade > one package,I download the source package > (or binary,if compatible) through a web > browser html/ftp interface in a mirror. > I see all packages liste

Surprise upgrading Debian packages!

2005-05-26 Thread nuno romano
I have a background with several Linux distributions,and when I want to upgrade one package,I download the source package (or binary,if compatible) through a web browser html/ftp interface in a mirror. I see all packages listed and I pick what I want.Now,I have Debian and when I want to download i

Re: Upgrading Debian (was: when and how???)

2004-08-19 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello J P (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > when do i install the new 446mb of updates?...during > the main Debian installation of the 7cd's during > apt?or afterwards in root#.if so, is the > command The answer is: whenever you want. To upgrade your system, make sure you have entries for

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-09 Thread Katipo
cr wrote: is a fault between the street and the incoming junction box in my house, which is only apparent when powered up? Amazing what I learn on deb-user! cr This is what the original tech. meant. In most installations, the public utility stops at the street, and you are responsibl

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-08 Thread cr
On Sun, 09 May 2004 00:37, John Hasler wrote: > cr writes: > > And it persists even when I disconnect all the house wiring and hook my > > phone / modem direct to the incoming line. > > That pretty well proves that it's in their system. > > > For me, the clincher was when the phone company tech cam

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-08 Thread John Hasler
cr writes: > And it persists even when I disconnect all the house wiring and hook my > phone / modem direct to the incoming line. That pretty well proves that it's in their system. > For me, the clincher was when the phone company tech came to check, went > out to the junction box in the street,

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-08 Thread cr
On Sat, 08 May 2004 16:24, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Yea, verily, I say unto you that on this date (Sat, 8 May 2004 14:10:52 > +1200) cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did appear within my Magick Viewing Screen > > and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > > Yes, sitting behind a 56k

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-08 Thread cr
On Sat, 08 May 2004 16:49, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 07 May 2004 11:06 pm, cr wrote: > > > year or two. Grabbing new stuff by modem just takes patience. It > > > helps if you don't pay for your connectivity by the hour too. > > > > Ah. I do (or rather, I have a fixed number of hours prer month

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-08 Thread Jules Dubois
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, 08 May 2004 15:06:26 +1200, cr wrote: > Rather more significantly, I only have one telephone line - so when my > computer's on line, phone ain't working. Same here. The Potato (stable) to Woody (testing) dist-upgrade took me around 40 hours. I, too, as a

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-08 Thread Silvan
On Saturday 08 May 2004 02:23 am, cr wrote: > For me, the clincher was when the phone company tech came to check, went > out to the junction box in the street, disconnected the line from the > exchange - crackle stopped - and reconnected it - crackle restarted.And > then the tech told me it mu

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread cr
On Sat, 08 May 2004 16:24, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Yea, verily, I say unto you that on this date (Sat, 8 May 2004 14:10:52 > +1200) cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did appear within my Magick Viewing Screen > > and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > > Yes, sitting behind a 56k

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread cr
On Sat, 08 May 2004 16:49, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 07 May 2004 11:06 pm, cr wrote: > > > year or two. Grabbing new stuff by modem just takes patience. It > > > helps if you don't pay for your connectivity by the hour too. > > > > Ah. I do (or rather, I have a fixed number of hours prer month

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Silvan
On Friday 07 May 2004 11:06 pm, cr wrote: > > year or two. Grabbing new stuff by modem just takes patience. It helps > > if you don't pay for your connectivity by the hour too. > Ah. I do (or rather, I have a fixed number of hours prer month on > dial-up). Gack. Well, I suppose your origina

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Yea, verily, I say unto you that on this date (Sat, 8 May 2004 14:10:52 +1200) cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > Yes, sitting behind a 56k modem (or a 28k which is what I'm stuck with > when line

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread John Hasler
cr writes: > I have a fixed number of hours prer month on dial-up That's a problem. > Rather more significantly, I only have one telephone line - so when my > computer's on line, phone ain't working. Same here. > And* I can never guarantee the line won't drop for some reason, so > leaving the t

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread cr
On Sat, 08 May 2004 14:30, Silvan wrote: > On Friday 07 May 2004 10:21 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > cr writes: > > > Yes, sitting behind a 56k modem (or a 28k which is what I'm stuck with > > > when line noise sets in!), a major upgrade of several packages is > > > really only practical off CD's. > >

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Silvan
On Friday 07 May 2004 10:21 pm, John Hasler wrote: > cr writes: > > Yes, sitting behind a 56k modem (or a 28k which is what I'm stuck with > > when line noise sets in!), a major upgrade of several packages is really > > only practical off CD's. > > I don't find that to be the case. Me neither. W

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread John Hasler
cr writes: > Yes, sitting behind a 56k modem (or a 28k which is what I'm stuck with > when line noise sets in!), a major upgrade of several packages is really > only practical off CD's. I don't find that to be the case. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread cr
On Fri, 07 May 2004 20:22, mags wrote: > Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 > etc)? or just Stable. > I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem a > little out of date, and an upgrade with a 56k modem looks as though it > would take fore

Re: Upgrading Debian

2004-05-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Friday 07 May 2004 12:22 am, mags wrote: > Are there packages from Testing and Unstable on the Debian CD's (3.02 > etc)? or just Stable. > I'm interested in installing Debian, but many packages in stable seem > a little out of date, and an upgrade with a 56k modem looks as though > it would take

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