On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 07:56:47AM -0400, . via Dng wrote: > On 10/17/21 07:48, terryc wrote: > > > I'm sorry to report that I tried a dist-upgrade from devuan beowulf > > > with KDE on an older machine. The result was a system with a > > > nonfunctional window manager and messed-up display resolution, and no > > > working Ethernet connection (and no wifi hardware). > > AFAIK, that isn't the way you are supposed to do it. > > > > Under beowulf; I did > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get upgrade > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > reboot > > Hmmm. I edited /etc/apt/sources.lst to use chimaera debs first, under > beowulf, then did the above sequence. > > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to change beowulf to chimaera > > I actually copy and date the deb lines and edit version to chimaera and > > comment out the beowulf lines so there is a history record. > > > > Them with chimaera in the /etc/apt/sources.list > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get upgrade > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > reboot and repeat; > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get upgrade > > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade > > rebbot. > > Well, it can't hurt to try another update/upgrade cycle; I had a konsole > open during the last reboot and it was restored, so I can do command-line > things (and what else could I possibly need :-) If that doesn't fix things > up then it's nuke-and-repave time.
I've learned it's useful to repeat upgrades and dist-upgrandes and an occasinoal aptitude until nothing happens AND there are no errors reported. I don't know why just repeating this should help; somehow, even with no reported errors that I can see, the job often isn't done. Almost as if the various apt-* commands don't do a complete job of analysing dependencies and opportunities. -- hendrik > > -bobmon > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
