Hi, On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:05:11PM -0500, Drew Engelbrecht wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: normal > > I followed the online directions to upgrade from lenny to squeeze. > > "apt-get upgrade" was successful. I then installed the newer kernel and > udev. At some point in this process, the characters became distorted, as if > in some foreign script. Switching back from another tty to the one i was > using for the installation solved/avoided this issue. Then I rebooted.
Would you remember after which package you have seen the first weird characters ? > I used "apt-get -d dist-upgrade" in multiple stages to download packages > before I attempted the full upgrade. apt-get complained that it couldn't > find 3 of the required packages, so I ran "apt-get update", however, there > were complaints about md5sum mismatches, if I recall. (I don't think that I > included this in the installation scripts.) Using "aptitude update" > completed the update successfully and allowed me to run "apt-get > dist-upgrade" successfully. Indeed I cannot find this in the script/log you have provided. It may be linked to a temporally issue on of the the ftp.us.debian.org backend. Did you encounter md5sum errors at "apt-get update" stage or download stage of a specific package ? Thanks for your report. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
