On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:00:22PM +1100, haaber wrote: > > On 3/28/19 4:35 PM, Foppe de Haan wrote: > > > Hi fellows, I tried to qvm-clone & upgrade a debian-9 to debian-10 > > > (buster). In a reproducible way, the apt-get dist-upgrade will fail > > > while installing (so: after download is finished) with the terminal > > > crashing surprisingly. So NO output is available. > > > I then (again: reproducibly) try to get access to the half-upgraded > > > system by running qvm-run -v -u root debian-10 xterm - which fails as > > > well saying "command failed with code 1" -- thereby not even unveiling a > > > minor hint where the error might sit. I have no idea how I could > > > possibly get to re-animate this half-dead install, if I cannot even get > > > an xterm. If I shutdown it, it will maybe start (or hang, who knows) > > > since it remains inaccessible. My last try is still running in hope for > > > some help from you. > > > > > > Cheers, Bernhard > > > > tried 'sudo xl console debian-10'? > > > I tried it 10h ago and it was completely stalled with random ascii-chars > mixed between text. I could not even quit it without killing the > dom0-terminal. Now, hours later, after reading you message, I tried once > more, and it worked, at least a bit: I could relaunch apt --fix-broken > and it went well - until it got stuck with "Setting up grub-pc" followed > by random-looking ascii code that actually is not random but should > probably be one of these "blue/white ascii boxes" with a text menu and > some choice that is instead shot "raw" and without color in the console > (and thus hardly readable). The console does not react any more on the > keyboard, no clue how to continue ... > > Bernhard >
I dont want to be *that* person, but this upgrade works flawlessly for me. Can you check you have upgraded debian-9 prior to clone, and then changed the Qubes repos to use buster, as well as the Debian, before running apt update? unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20190328125524.4bcmsni2laz7ftr7%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
