Hello, I upgraded from Buster stable to Bullseye stable last night, with apparent success eventually, but it went less than smoothly and I would be grateful for any advice as to why that may have been.
I followed the preparation advice at https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html and it seemed to me that there were no non-Debian packages in apt-forktracer output, although I'm afraid I didn't save the list. The upgrade process stopped abruptly a couple of times, once without any indication as to why. $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main contrib non-free #deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-backports main contrib non-free >From script output: # apt full-upgrade [...] Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-2vllSE/09-gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0_1.18.4-3_amd64.deb <upgrade stopped, etckeeper output snipped> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) # apt install --fix-broken [...] Setting up zfs-initramfs (2.0.3-9) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.133+deb10u1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-17-amd64 # apt full-upgrade [...] Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php7.4 (7.4.21-1+deb11u1) ... <upgrade stopped, etckeeper output snipped> W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (8974 vs 9007). Affected packages: texlive-fonts-recommended:amd64 texlive-lang-greek:amd64 texlive-latex-base:amd64 texlive-latex-extra:amd64 texlive-latex-recommended:amd64 texlive-pictures:amd64 texlive-plain-generic:amd64 texlive-science:amd64 # apt full-upgrade [...] Apparent success... $ apt policy *gir*bad* gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0: Installed: 1.18.4-3 Candidate: 1.18.4-3 Version table: *** 1.18.4-3 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ cat /etc/debian_version 11.0 $ uname -a Linux <hostname> 5.10.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.46-4 (2021-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux Reboots without issue. Is there any way to verify an upgrade completed properly? Would there be obvious errors on exit if it didn't? Thanks, Gareth
