Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Adding this up here as a quick read: If this was installation via debs, I'm out of the conversation. If it was about untarring [zipped files] and you can repeatedly reproduce the issue now that you have seen this, PLEASE don't share the package name(s) publicly. They could be... dissected and then

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/21/21, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >> frank@fedora ~$ stat / >>File: / >>Size: 4096Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory >> Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 2

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 7/21/21 12:24 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: frank@fedora ~$ stat /   File: /   Size: 4096    Blocks: 8  IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 2   Links: 18 Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) 

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:57 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:39:49PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > > > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: (0/root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank) > > > Actually, access 555 means everyone can Read and Execute, but nobody can > > Update. > > > >

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:39:49PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x) Uid: (0/root) Gid: ( 1000/ frank) > Actually, access 555 means everyone can Read and Execute, but nobody can > Update. > > Root usually overrides that, which could explain why it still

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:12 PM Frank McCormick wrote: > On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick < > debianl...@videotron.ca> wrote: > >> Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > >> > >> > >> Setting

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick > > wrote: > > > Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > > > > > > > > > Setting up systemd

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:04:13PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > frank@fedora ~$ stat / >   File: / >   Size: 4096    Blocks: 8  IO Block: 4096 directory > Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 2   Links: 18 > Access: (0555/dr-xr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: ( 1000/

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run.

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Wed, Jul 21 2021 at 09:26:41 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: > Got a bunch of strange errors during this morning upgrade of Bullseye. > > > Setting up systemd (247.3-6) ... Detected unsafe path transition / → > /run during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition > / → /run during

Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

2017-09-21 Thread deloptes
Hi jpff wrote: > 1) Why will vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 not load (says loading and the does > nothing for over 30mins) when vmlinuz-3.2.0-4-amd64 does load? > don't know - I had same issue In my case I found out that initrd was broken. I still have to unpack the initrd copy /sbin/switch_root and

Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

2017-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 09/20/17 08:32, jpff wrote: I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. ... While some people succeed at major version upgrades, the few times I have attempted it resulted in breakage, frustration, and lots of wasted

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Kevin Mark] I thought that 'reinstall' seems very time consuming and thought that there may be a diffent way to do it. Would this work for (most|all)? cheers, Yes, I believe so. So the latest incarnation of the script to fix this problem uses this apporach. It is in sysv-rc version

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Bastian Venthur] Looks like there is still something left to do for the user after this step. Eg, on my machine KDM did not start up automatically anymore, as well as WLAN. Those are two things I encountered directly and are probably easy to fix, but I'm quite uncertain if there is something

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-10 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 17:25:41 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Paul Scott
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before this morning. sed -n /installed sysvinit

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Petter, On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 07:22:53PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: In version 2.86.ds1-16 of the sysv-rc package released 2006-09-06, the update-rc.d script was broken. When used to to update symlinks it would remove all symlinks for a init.d script if such symlinks existed,

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Sorry for the noise. Here is yet another script fragment, this time to extract the list of installed and upgraded packages in the dangerous period. I did not know about the /var/log/dpkg.log file before this morning. sed -n /installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16/,/installed sysvinit 2.86.ds1-18/p

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in /etc/init.d/. This way proved to be too quick, trying to reinstall removed but not purged packages with init.d scripts left behind in /etc/init.d/. I recommend using something like this instead, to only

Re: Upgrade problems for sysvinit 2.86.ds1-16 - 2.86.ds1-18

2006-09-08 Thread Bastian Venthur
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Those with packages being broken from this bug can fix it by using 'apt-get --reinstall install package' on the affected packages. A quick way out is to reinstall all the packages with scripts in /etc/init.d/. for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I just did an upgrade bo -- hamm using autoup.sh. Amazing. But, there are a number of steps which left me cold; and flipping a coin for the right action. 1) during the autoup it had several conflicts, adn it was not clear to me if I needed to

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: Bob, thanks for the information.. I wish this was in the autoup.sh documentation! In addition to autoup.sh, there is the libc5-libc6 mini-HOWTO, which should be required reading, even for those using the script. Watching the recent traffic on

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-07-10 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Bob, thanks for the information.. I wish this was in the autoup.sh documentation! Watching the recent traffic on upgrade problems, and issues makes me wonder.. One concluded that it isin't automatic, and you really have to know all the dependencies, that dselect will only have shallow knowledge

Re: Upgrade problems..

1998-06-27 Thread aqy6633
2) After update, it says now use dselect to upgrade the rest of your system, then reboot. ?? How do I know what to upgrade? I would like to say; whatever needs an upgrade, if I have it installed, do it. Instead, I had to go through dselect, look at hundreds of packages, try to remember

Re: Upgrade problems

1998-06-27 Thread Ralph Winslow
When Tod Detre wrote, I replied: Are you using apt as your access method? I've started using this and specifying a list of sites to use for access and am delighted with the results. I recently ran dselafter not having done so for an extended period. I downloaded something (I forget just what)

Re: Upgrade problems

1998-06-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Tod Detre wrote: Ok I upgraded to Hamm, but now dselevt is unhappy. It's probubly my config error but I don't know what. When ever I try to install stuff it wants to upgrade alot of stuff (expected it wants to put newer versions on.) but when it trys to get the file it