Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Adam Hardy (debian)
to generate some image galleries for some images I scp'd over. I guess I could find a java webapp which could do this too if this fails. Thanks! Adam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mishap-upgrading-from-Woody-to-Etch-tp12582403p18028029.html Sent from the Debian User mailing

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems] I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody and being slap-dash, I tried to install a

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrew Sackville-West on 20/06/08 14:38, wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems] I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:38:59AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade to sarge OK? Or is it too late? you should

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: Those upgrade instructions warn: Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be terminated

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Sven Joachim on 20/06/08 15:06, wrote: On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: Those upgrade instructions warn: Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are upgrading. That is because each of those

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 15:13:59 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: What's the 'virtual console provided by the screen program'? Some sort of bolt-on to ssh? screen is a program which allows you to run commands in windows even on a text console. See here for a reasonable introduction:

Re: Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-11-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.09.07 19:34, Chris Austin wrote: I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer algebra system), and for this I

Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer algebra system), and for this I had to start upgrading packages to the

Re: Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Chris Austin wrote: Hi, I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to ... snipped woes of a partial upgrade ... hit an error trying to upgrade