I recently upgraded a mostly slink box to potato over the net. Fortunately I had access to a high-speed line. Even then, it took a while. I was pretty impressed by the whole thing.
The only problem I had during installation was a perl-4 vs perl-5 conflict. It suggested I use a particular apt option (I don't remember which one now but the docs said never use this unless you really know what you are doing -- as if). Well, I held my breath and tried the option, it reported lots of errors but said 'proceeding as you request.' When the dust settled, everything was fine. Several days later I noticed problems with lpd. Near the top of /etc/init.d/lpd (lpr version I think) it checks for the existence of /usr/sbin/pac. Well, I had no /usr/sbin/pac so ldp was never starting. To fix the problem I had to switch between lpr and lprng a few times. I don't remember what the exact history of this box was with respect to printing, or even what was installed at the time of the upgrade. But at some point I noticed some error messages about /var/spool/lpd not being empty. There may have been a stale lpd.lock file that was throwing things off both at install time and at run time (old lpd was never being stopped -- possibly because of missing /usr/sbin/pac). I ended up manually deleting the /var/spool/lpd tree. After a few more attempts at both lpr and lprng, lpr finally started working, so I left good enough alone. Sorry I didn't keep notes on this situation because it seemed like something was not quite right. There might have also been permissions problems on the spool directory for my printer, but at that point I had been doing some serious manual hacking to get things working, so I'm not sure what caused what. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
