Le dimanche 24 décembre 2006 20:33, Hal Vaughan a écrit : > On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > > Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The > > systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The > > particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 -> xorg 7 > > transition. > > Fortunately, I didn't have any boxen running Potato that I had to > upgrade. Going from Sarge to Etch will be my first upgrade from one > stable to the next. I remember reading about how it was a major pain > to upgrade some packages from Potato to Sarge. > > I have some servers running Sarge that don't have X at all. Are there > other packages that would make updating them to Etch difficult once > Etch goes stable? > > Hal
I've just tried in a VMware virtual machine, from a pure simple sarge (mail server oriented) to etch. I thought I never could finish, I wanted aptitude to be upgraded at first, and it fails, but it upgrade the libc. Then, aptitude and apt-get could not use this new libc. I think that the first problem came from initramfs-tools that is needed for the new kernel. As I didn't want that to append, I insist to upgrade aptitude, perhaps with apt-get too... I reach a point where I had no kernel anymore ! Fortunately, some packages had been downloaded in /var/cache/apt/archive, and dpkg worked. I managed to upgrade aptitude, after installing apt from there. And then aptitude dist-upgrade could have finished. To sum up, I think there is a problem with kernel upgrade, with initrd-tools/initramfs-tools and hotplug/udev which are not compatible between kernels.
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