Greetings. The other day I posted a message decribing trouble my IPX
was having (primarily with ld.so) after an upgrade attempt from slink
to potato. After some effort, I've managed to successfully complete an
upgrade, and the machine appears to be functioning correctly. For
posterity, here is a summary of what initially failed and the steps I
took to make the upgrade successful:
Starting with a stock, out of the box Debian 2.1 installation from
CD (standard configuration, 2.0.x kernel), here is what *didn't*
work, using sound advice from the debian-user list:
1. 'apt-get update'; 'apt-get install apt': Dependency problem
with libc6 and the new apt version. Apt also told me I needed a
2.2.x kernel to install the new libc6 version.
Ok, forget upgrading apt...
2. 'apt-get update'; 'apt-get dist-upgrade': Incompatibility between
libc6 and the 2.0.x kernel. Ok, so I tried upgrading the kernel
to 2.2.x. Now I encountered a circular dependency; I couldn't
upgrade the kernel because I needed a new libc6, and I couldn't
upgrade libc6 because I needed a 2.2.x kernel. Sigh...
3. Reinstall Debian from CD, this time selecting the 2.2.1
kernel. Try the upgrade again. This time it works, only something
has gone wrong. The 'man' program produces an assertion failure
in ld.so; so does 'umount2' during reboot. Other related errors
while booting into runlevel 2. Removing ld.so.cache and running
ldconfig has no effect. Also, it looks like the 2.2.15 kernel
didn't get installed. Hmm...
Scratch head. Sigh again.
Here is what finally worked:
1. Reinstall Debian from CD, using the 2.2.1 kernel.
2. Explicitly upgrade to just the 2.2.15 kernel, nothing
else. Remote logins now fail due to insufficient PTYs. Saw this
in the list archives, but my system didn't have
/etc/init.d/devpts.sh (which cures the problem). So... upgraded
the sysutils and netbase packages from potato. One of these
contained the needed script, which solved the PTY problem. I now
have a functioning 2.2.15 system...
3. NOW: 'apt-get update'; 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to get potato
installed. This *works*; no ld.so problems.
4. Install some additional packages for nfs, telnetd. Goes fairly
ok, but now rsh, rlogin, rlogind are missing. Sigh. Install
rsh-client and rsh-server packages. Ok.
5. Reboot.
6. Up and humming.
I hope these notes prove useful to someone. Thanks to those on the
list that provided the APT steps to use when upgrading. FYI, my potato
installation is running on a SPARC IPX, 64mb ram:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : Fujitsu or Weitek Power-UP
fpu : Fujitsu or Weitek on-chip FPU
promlib : Version 2 Revision 2
prom: 2.9
type: sun4c
ncpus probed: 1
ncpus active: 1
BogoMips: 39.83
vacsize : 65536 bytes
vachwflush : yes
vaclinesize : 32 bytes
mmuctxs : 8
mmupsegs: 256
kernelpsegs : 34
kfreepsegs : 0
usedpsegs : 53
ufreepsegs : 132
user_taken : 2
max_taken : 146
Regards,
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David E. Young
Fujitsu Network Communications The fact that ... we still
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) live well cannot ease the pain of
feeling that we no longer live nobly.
-- John Updike
Programming should be fun,
programs should be beautiful
-- P. Graham
