Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Guy
Hi I just upgraded a Thecus N2100, populated with lots of languages and dev packages, from lenny to squeeze. This worked fine, following the kernel+udev+reboot+dist-upgrade method. Nice work, team! Summary: the upgrade worked as described and would have given a working system, but watching the

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/26/2011 02:23 AM, John Winters wrote: I suggest removing this package (apt-xapian) if you're running Squeeze on a slug. I concur with this. I had the same experience on an NSLU2. I attribute the problem basically to lack of RAM. I wonder if we shouldn't contribute a patch to

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-27 Thread Groug
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 22:33 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:38, Groug gr...@free.fr wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:29 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Success at last ! I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I had with

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:31, Gordon Farquharson gordonfarquhar...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:01, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Gordon Farquharson gordonfarquhar...@gmail.com [2011-02-24 22:30]: I was thinking about whether to file a bug today. USB devices are

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-26 Thread Groug
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:29 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Success at last ! I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I had with dep: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 03:38, Groug gr...@free.fr wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 12:29 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: Success at last ! I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I had with dep:

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Groug
On 02/24/2011 06:45 PM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:07, Grouggr...@free.fr wrote: I have (or better say had) a nslu2 running lenny. I've dist-upgraded to squeeze: no errors but the nslu2 won't reboot: during the boot sequence, the usb hard disk gets shutdowned and

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 04:01, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Gordon Farquharson gordonfarquhar...@gmail.com [2011-02-24 22:30]: I was thinking about whether to file a bug today. USB devices are generally not permanently attached to the computer, so is it reasonable to expect

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:30, Groug gr...@free.fr wrote: On 02/24/2011 06:45 PM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: sure that you have upgraded both udev and the kernel? According to the release notes, the squeeze udev will not work properly with the lenny Ouch... I missed that and now I have lenny

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Groug
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 11:30 +0100, Groug wrote: On 02/24/2011 06:45 PM, Gordon Farquharson wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:07, Grouggr...@free.fr wrote: I have (or better say had) a nslu2 running lenny. I've dist-upgraded to squeeze: no errors but the nslu2 won't reboot: during the

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Success at last ! I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I had with dep: /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/core/usbcore.ko /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-ixp4xx/kernel/drivers/usb/host/ehci-hcd.ko

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:59, Groug gr...@free.fr wrote: Success at last ! I had to turn MODULES=dep to MODULES=most in initramfs... This is what I had with dep: BTW, I wouldn't recommend this solution as a long-term fix. In the future, the initramfs is likely to get too large to fit into

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-25 Thread John Winters
On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the RAID uuid changing. My basic upgrade to Squeeze was satisfactorily dull. It took a while but had no issues at all. One problem did rear its head

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread John Winters
On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I upgraded a NSLU2 to squeeze yesterday without any problems but the system was a base system of lenny without any additional software installed. It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Yup, that's it. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 09:51, John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk wrote: On 23/02/11 18:42, Martin Michlmayr wrote: [snip] I upgraded a NSLU2 to squeeze yesterday without any problems but the system was a base system of lenny without any additional software installed. It

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Groug
On 02/24/2011 09:51 AM, John Winters wrote: I have a turbo-slug which isn't doing much and is running pretty vanilla Lenny. I could upgrade that to Squeeze as a test case if it would help. Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order to test them? Is it just the usual

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:07, Groug gr...@free.fr wrote: I have (or better say had) a nslu2 running lenny. I've dist-upgraded to squeeze: no errors but the nslu2 won't reboot: during the boot sequence, the usb hard disk gets shutdowned and nothing more happens. Fortunately, I could restore

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 00:51, John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk wrote: Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order to test them? Is it just the usual Edit /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get install linux-image-mumble apt-get install udev reboot

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:14, Gordon Farquharson gordonfarquhar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 00:51, John Winters j...@sinodun.org.uk wrote: Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order to test them? Is it just the usual Edit /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gordon Farquharson gordonfarquhar...@gmail.com [2011-02-24 11:39]: It turns out that I was missing ums-cypress.ko in my initramfs. My RAID devices are in two different USB enclosures (which, admittedly, is a little strange). The one USB enclosure only requires usb-storage which was included

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-24 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Martin On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 13:13, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: I think you should file a bug on initramfs-tools saying that this module is missing when you use MODULES=dep. I was thinking about whether to file a bug today. USB devices are generally not permanently attached

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-23 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Björn Wetterbom bj...@wetterbom.se [2011-02-22 09:54]: Following the recent conversations regarding upgrade problems I would appreciate some success stories before I attempt the upgrade on my (production) machines. Anyone willing to share? Please state your device type as well (I run an

Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-23 Thread u7l11ey
Martin Michlmayr wrote: It would be great if other users could comment. So far, I've seen one problem report about the RAID uuid changing. What does it take to do a successful upgrade on a slug? Is it really just replacing lenny by squeeze in /etc/apt/sources.list ? What about the non-free

Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades

2011-02-22 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Following the recent conversations regarding upgrade problems I would appreciate some success stories before I attempt the upgrade on my (production) machines. Anyone willing to share? Please state your device type as well (I run an NSLU2 and a TS-209 with Lenny). Thanks Björn