Re: Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

-upgrade command line. Ok, I went to the bottom: it was due to phased updates not selecting my machine for applying the update. Disabling it via -o APT::Get::Always-Include-Phased-Updates=1 force apt-get dist-upgrade to update anything. I hope this can be useful for others. Thanks. -- Danti

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

Using libsystemd0 as an example, apt-cache policy shown the installed packages with score 100, and an available update with score 500. Still, the update was not installed until I manually specified the package on the apt-get dist-upgrade command line. Full disclosure: this specific system is an

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

On 23/09/2022 00:33, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:04:26AM +0200, Gionatan Danti wrote: > root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages h

apt-get dist-upgrade keeping back some packets

Hi all, I have a question about apt-get dist-upgrade refusing to update some packages: root@localhost:/var/log/apt# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been

Re: Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 12:45 +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security > fixes on using command line as per below: > > $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o > Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y

Locally modified config file prompts in apt-get dist-upgrade despite APT configuration in place

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my Debian 10 box (10.11) with latest security fixes on using command line as per below: $ sudo apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade -y --allow- unauthenticated above command line with APT configuration is

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On 02/07/18 12:55 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-07-01, Charlie Gibbs wrote: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it threw the

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On Mon 02 Jul 2018 at 10:12:13 (+0100), Joe wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful > > about preserving the system's integrity to run. > > Less and less with each version. > > I have a wheezy: I

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

Charlie Gibbs wrote: ... > Sure enough, / is full, with all the fun that that entails. ... there are a lot of potential places to get space back: - check /var/log - also, see if you have old kernels that can be removed. - your browser cache may be huge. - downloaded files

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:55:48 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-02, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 > > David Wright wrote: > > > > > >> > >> Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful > >> about preserving the system's integrity to run. > >> > > >

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On 2018-07-02, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > >> >> Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful >> about preserving the system's integrity to run. >> > > Less and less with each version. > > I have a wheezy: I cloned it to a spare

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On Sun, 1 Jul 2018 17:43:02 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful > about preserving the system's integrity to run. > Less and less with each version. I have a wheezy: I cloned it to a spare desktop machine, upgraded with some

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On 2018-07-01, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I > tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it > threw the message: > > Error writing to

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

piles these programs successfully.  However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the message: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean.  When I tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% compl

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

clients on my Jessie laptop (see my recent posting titled > >> "Can't link to OpenSSL on my laptop). I've decided to upgrade it > >> to Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these programs > >> successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" s

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

on my laptop). I've decided to upgrade it >> to Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these programs >> successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the >> message: >> >> E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archive

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

y desktop machine, which compiles these programs > successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the > message: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I &g

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

On 07/01/2018 05:44 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Let's look at your options. 2. Buy a nice SSD and a USB-SATA cable. Install stretch on it, keeping to two partitions: / and /home. Copy over /home from your internal disk. When it's all done, swap the internal disk for the SSD. Pros:

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

Charlie Gibbs composed on 2018-07-01 13:17 (UTC-0700): > After this experience, I'm gun-shy about upgrading a system in place. I work mostly with limited space / filesystems, and I do dist-upgrades more often than fresh installs. There are places other than apt's cache that can gobble

Re: Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

esktop machine, > which compiles these programs successfully. However, "sudo apt-get > dist-upgrade" shows the message: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I tried

Is apt-get dist-upgrade worth the hassle?

t;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the message: E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it threw the message: Error writing

Re: after doing apt-get dist-upgrade I lost wifi internet connection

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 04:10:20PM -0300, Luciano Moffatt wrote: > I am in testing. > > I did a new installation and after a single apt-get dist-ugrade, wich > installed three new packages and updated about another forty,I lost my wifi > internet connection again. Cable internet worked fine. >

after doing apt-get dist-upgrade I lost wifi internet connection

I am in testing. I did a new installation and after a single apt-get dist-ugrade, wich installed three new packages and updated about another forty,I lost my wifi internet connection again. Cable internet worked fine. I suspect it has something to do with firmware-linux-free so I did an apt-get

Re: Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

Hello, El 29 de marzo de 2016 9:16:09 CEST, Sergei Petrunin escribió: >Thanks for response! > >Unfortunately, I have to report that doing > >sudo install-grub /dev/sda#/dev/sda is by device for hard-drive >with >lvm, may be I need some specific options here? >sudo

Re: Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

Thanks for response! Unfortunately, I have to report that doing sudo install-grub /dev/sda#/dev/sda is by device for hard-drive with lvm, may be I need some specific options here? sudo upgrade-grub do not cure boot for 4.4.0 kernel - same problem persists, still 4.3.0 kernel (in "Advanced

Re: Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

On 2016-03-28 11:46:46 PM, Sergei Petrunin wrote: During the system boot I get the following message: Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... lvmetad is not active yet sysinit Volume group "strog-vg" not found Cannot process volume group strog-vg done. --- several times message like this ---

Debian Testing. Can't boot after apt-get dist-upgrade (28 March 2016)

Hello, Just execute update commands: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get dist-upgrade After that I no longer be able to boot on 4.4.0 kernel (I using it for some time already), so I boot now from 4.3.0. During the system boot I get the following message: Begin: Running

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:23:00 + Darac Marjal sent: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > >It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system > >with apt-get dist-upgrade? > > > >I suppose depending on what packages a

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary

Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary: libreoffice(2 bugs), akonadi-server(1 bug), libkf5auth5(1 bug

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade shows kept back packages

with apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new packages if needed. Now for some reason db5.1-util package is kept back despite the fact that I execute apt-get dist-upgrade: I'm not sure which distribution you're running. [snip] Am I correct that db5.1-util is kept back because

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade shows kept back packages

Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): On 8/27/15, David Wright deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: So what depends on python2.6 that won't be satisfied with 2.7? My wheezy shows libdb5.1:i386 5.1.29-5 and jessie has libdb5.3:i386 5.3.28-9 (assuming they're related). Neither has python2.6.

apt-get dist-upgrade shows kept back packages

Hi, as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case package can not be upgraded with apt-get upgrade because upgrade requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new packages if needed. Now for some reason db5.1

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade shows kept back packages

Quoting Martin T (m4rtn...@gmail.com): Hi, as far as I know, kept back packages in Debian are shown in case package can not be upgraded with apt-get upgrade because upgrade requires to install new packages. Usually this can be fixed with apt-get dist-upgrade because this will install new

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade shows kept back packages

Martin T wrote on 08/27/2015 08:08 AM: Now for some reason db5.1-util package is kept back despite the fact that I execute apt-get dist-upgrade: I did an upgrade yesterday, and saw the same thing. Experience suggests to me that it's a packaging dependency inconsistency somewhere

Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

Dear all, I run Debian Unstable. I haven't been able to do a apt-get dist-upgrade for some time now since it wants to remove some essential packages which after upgrading is not installable anymore, for example konsole and okular. The output from apt-get dist-upgrade is: Calculating upgrade

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 09:12:19 +0200 (CEST) Magnus R mara...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I run Debian Unstable. I haven't been able to do a apt-get dist-upgrade for some time now since it wants to remove some essential packages which after upgrading is not installable anymore, for example

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

Magnus R mara...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or do I just have to wait until the packages I need are back to normal (that is installable). There are several very big libary and compiler transitions going on at the moment. You can upgrade upgradable packages by

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or do I just have to wait until the packages I need are back to normal (that is installable). There are several very big libary and compiler transitions going on at the moment. You can upgrade upgradable packages by using only apt upgrade instead of

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

mettre à jour les paquets que tu cites avant un dist-upgrade ?Merci,Fred bonjour, il faut mettre à jour les paquets que je cite avant de faire un dist-upgrade mode opératoire : sudo -s apt-get update --fix-missing apt-get install apt aptitude dpkg libc6 apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

bonjour, il faut mettre à jour les paquets que je cite avant de faire un dist-upgrade mode opératoire : sudo -s apt-get update --fix-missing apt-get install apt aptitude dpkg libc6 apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade slt bernard Ok merci pour l'info Bernard. Parcontre sudo -s pour

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

Bonsoir Bernard, je ne comprends pas bien ta réponse, tu veux bien en dire plus ?Merci !Fred sudo -s apt-get install apt aptitude dpkg libc6 slt bernard     Bonjour Bernard, tu veux dire qu'il faut mettre à jour les paquets que tu cites avant un dist-upgrade ?Merci,Fred

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

Le 26/06/2015 07:13, fred a écrit : Bonjour à tou-te-s, j'hésite à mettre à jour avec la commande citée en sujet de ce mel, quelqu'un ici aurait des retours positifs à partager ? Bonjour 1) D'un point de vue général, tout changement vers un progrès implique des risques, même s'ils sont

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

Bonjour, Le vendredi 26 juin 2015 à 10:32, maderios a écrit : Le 26/06/2015 07:13, fred a écrit : Bonjour à tou-te-s, j'hésite à mettre à jour avec la commande citée en sujet de ce mel, quelqu'un ici aurait des retours positifs à partager ? Bonjour 1) D'un point de vue général, tout

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

Le 26/06/2015 07:13, fred a écrit : Bonjour à tou-te-s, j'hésite à mettre à jour avec la commande citée en sujet de ce mel, quelqu'un ici aurait des retours positifs à partager ? Si ton hésitation est relative à Jessie et son ecosystème, sache que tu ne pourras pas rester éternellement

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

De : maderios mader...@gmail.com À : debian-user-french@lists.debian.org Envoyé le : Vendredi 26 juin 2015 10h32 Objet : Re: apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie Le 26/06/2015 07:13, fred a écrit : Bonjour à tou-te-s, j'hésite à mettre à jour avec la commande citée en sujet de

apt-get dist-upgrade de Wheezy vers Jessie

Bonjour à tou-te-s, j'hésite à mettre à jour avec la commande citée en sujet de ce mel, quelqu'un ici aurait des retours positifs à partager ? Merci !Fred

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: apt-get upgrade seems to have less reboot requiring updates. There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout (I work on cmd line

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

On 1/24/14, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: apt-get upgrade seems to have less reboot requiring updates. There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next time I shutdown my computer - not on

apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

apt-get upgrade seems to have less reboot requiring updates. There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout (I work on cmd line here and there). Doing a dist-upgrade right when I'm shutting the machine

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

sid, is that sometimes gui packages break with an upgrade and a logout at least is required. Sometimes a reboot is required. Write a script that runs apt-get dist-upgrade with appropriate options (things to consider might be --assume-yes/--assume-no, --trivial-only and maybe DEBIAN_FRONTEND

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:08:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further information: e.g. shutdown -r reboot, shutdown -h halt

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further information: e.g. shutdown -r reboot, shutdown -h halt http://linux.101hacks.com/unix/shutdown/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

On Jo, 23 ian 14, 13:52:39, Darac Marjal wrote: When you are happy with the script, create an initscript for it that *starts* in runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown). Pitch it to happen sometime between X (and other user-facing services) stopping and the network going down. Not sure if this

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

Same situation here, I've tried with several updated mirrors ( http://mirror.debian.org/status.html) and no difference. According to this http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=669278 should we expect any update in the repositories soon? Regards, -- Javier Parapar

Re: Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

BTW by installing phonon-backend-null the dist-upgrade can be performed, but no audio or video could be generated meanwhile a proper backend is not installed. -- Javier Parapar

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

Hi, Not all Debian mirrors work right ... On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:27:54AM +0530, Amrish Purohit wrote: ... 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages N: Unable to locate package libvlccore4 Change mirror site from http://ftp.us.debian.org to and something else and try

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

Amrish Purohit amrish.dis...@gmail.com wrote: I have repeated same with latest 6.0.4 kde live dvd, but getting the saem result. Hmmm. Did you run apt-get update after changing your sources.list? -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free # UNOFFICIAL REPOS ## [ snip: debian-multimedia, google, skype ] To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade For the record: If you want to set up a testing system starting from a stable installation CD then I would recommend to only install a minimal stable system (no graphical environment etc.), upgrade this minimal system carefully to testing

apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed with following error. E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon-backend-vlc'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) Please help to fix this issue. Regards Amrish

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

-key add - deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed with following error. E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon-backend-vlc

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

- deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed with following error. E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

(...) Mmm... just out of curiosity, if you wanted to use testing instead stable, why is that you didn't download a testing ISO image (debian- testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso)? To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

update apt-get dist-upgrade But dist-upgrade failed with following error. E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'phonon-backend-vlc'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2) Do you have VLC installed from multimedia repo? If so, remove it and then try

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failed.

://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-proposed-updates main contrib non-free # UNOFFICIAL REPOS ## [ snip: debian-multimedia, google, skype ] To convert debian stable in testing, I fired following commands. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade For the record: If you

apt-get dist-upgrade

bonjour, pour mon architecture: Debian Wheezy AMD64 multicores Intel 64 bits commande exécutée apt-get dist-upgrade ci joint la trace de l'exécution: http://cjoint.com/?3DkkAh62mXH j'ai 2 remarques: dans /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch j'ai i386, ensuite -su voyez-vous un remède? faut-il

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade

Le mardi 10 avril 2012 à 10:34 +0200, JB a écrit : bonjour, pour mon architecture: Debian Wheezy AMD64 multicores Intel 64 bits commande exécutée apt-get dist-upgrade ci joint la trace de l'exécution: http://cjoint.com/?3DkkAh62mXH j'ai 2 remarques: dans /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

Tom, thank you for the info. I agree w. sending in bug reports. It's just that there is such a learning curve w.Gnome 3 and KDE4 which I had tried before I changed over to Gnome 2.30.x previously. I have gone ahead and done the full apt-get dist-upgrade and played w. the new Gnome and found

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

On 28/02/2012 01:25, Whit Hansell wrote: Thanks for your reply. I had done some googling at the debian site and found info on the differences as you state. I have to admit I am not sure which is the best way to update/upgrade my system. I had read a few years ago that aptitude was the

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between safe-upgrade/upgrade and full-upgrade/ dist-upgrade only appears

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

On 27/02/2012 02:38, Whit Hansell wrote: OK, Y'all. Confusin', confusin', confusin. Quetjun' Is it safe to do an apt-get dist-upgrade? I mean it says it will add over a Gig of new files and stuff while removing a number of files. I know that when I do an aptitude safe-upgraade

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_literal_apt_get_literal_literal_apt_cache_literal_vs_literal_aptitude_literal Quote: The difference between

Re: Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Whit Hansell skippe...@comcast.net wrote: On 02/27/2012 04:26 AM, Monsieur Louk wrote: I think you'll find every thing you need in the Debian doc:

Wheezy - aptitude safe-upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

was reading was to do an apt-get dist-upgrade and the person did so and she got her submenus back but lost her panels. I know that she went from Gnome 2.3.x to Gnome 3 w. the upgrade and that is what I need to do too but when I did an apt-get update to see what all would be changed, I

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

--purge package1 etc. * chmod +x remove_conf_files * sh remove_conf_files * apt-get -f install * orphaner - all clear * apt-get dist-upgrade * E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on dash * dpkg -i --force-configure-any dash_0.5.5.1-7.4_i386.deb

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

Alex wrote: I think I have reached a dead-end and may have to restore from partimage backup. Sigh. Oh well. On the bright side at least you have a full backup. :-) I worked through Bob's recommendations:- :-) * apt-get dist-upgrade * E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate

'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

Hi, 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) to Squeeze crashes with the following error:- E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on libtext-iconv-perl Procedure used during upgrade to date:- 1) Downloaded and burned all .iso

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

Alex wrote: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny (up to date as of 04 Spet. 2011) Too late now but before upgrading I think it is advisable to look at the output of apt-show-versions and clean up packages that are no longer available. Even though you were fully up to date with Lenny there were

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

Hi Bob, Thank you very much for the prompt and very comprehensive reply. There are some questions and comments arising, please:- * Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to another in case of

Re: 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from Lenny to Squeeze crashes

Alex wrote: * Since I am working from a partimage backup of the Debian system partition (S.O.E. that can be transferred from one machine to another in case of emergency), it is not a problem to restore that and start again, if you think that would be the best course and

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Sun, 08 May 2011 13:02:18 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote: (...) Whether one of these packages is installed by default depends on how you installed that particular machine (example: it might not be installed in expert mode since AFAIR you get a specific

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l test@debian:~$ uname -r 2.6.32-5-686 Now (by purely

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On 07/05/11 09:36 PM, KS wrote: However, I did an update just around the time I saw the reply and apt is not able to find the 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (for for that matter 2.6.38-2) either! It exists on packages.debian.org though. Must have been an issue with the mirrors as apt was getting hash

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Du, 08 mai 11, 09:55:10, Camaleón wrote: You need either the package linux-image-flavour or linux-image-2.6-flavour and a new kernel will be installed as soon as the Kernel Team updates the dependencies of these packages. Do I need either or do I need both? :-) I did say either,

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

for modern PCs But the updated kernel was not showing to me as available until I manually pulled the meta-package ;-( I don't understand what you mean here, could you please rephrase a bit? Sure. I mean I already had the linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 package installed but apt-get dist-upgrade did

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

In pan.2011.05.08.09.55...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) Now (by purely chance) I

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:13:38, Camaleón wrote: Sure. I mean I already had the linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 package installed but apt-get dist-upgrade did not offer the latest version available (linux-image-2.6.38-2-686) so I had to manually install it. (so I did understand it right after all

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

In 201105081231.04151@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pan.2011.05.08.09.55...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: You need either the package linux-image-flavour or linux-image-2.6-flavour and a new kernel will be installed

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

but apt-get dist-upgrade did not offer the latest version available (linux-image-2.6.38-2-686) so I had to manually install it. I think this is mostly because the different kernel versions are completely different packages, rather than a new version of the same package. This prevents your kernel

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:33:22 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:13:38, Camaleón wrote: Sure. I mean I already had the linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 package installed but apt-get dist-upgrade did not offer the latest version available (linux-image-2.6.38-2-686) so I had to manually

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On 20110508_095510, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 07 mai 11, 16:18:53, Camaleón wrote: I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Du, 08 mai 11, 17:56:41, Camaleón wrote: Hum... then as Boyd also said (@Boyd, thanks for the explanation), can we conclude that _only_ a kernel meta-package will be able to perform the automatic upgrade to the latest version available? Well, only is a bit strong here, but given the

Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

Hello, I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) root@debian:~# cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l test@debian:~$ uname -r 2.6.32-5-686 Now (by purely chance) I realized that there is indeed a new kernel

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote: Hello, I'm running wheezy and it's since weeks that I started wondering when a new kernel will come to testing :-) snip I use to upgrade the machine with this command: apt-get update apt-get -V dist-upgrade Should I have been using another one that

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

-get -V dist-upgrade Should I have been using another one that automatically triggered the new kernel? Or is that kernel needs to be manually pulled? :-? Greetings, Hi, whenever I power on my boxes firs I go in single user mod and apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade like you. On my Wheezy box

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

On Sat, 07 May 2011 17:24:33 +0100, AG wrote: On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote: I use to upgrade the machine with this command: apt-get update apt-get -V dist-upgrade Should I have been using another one that automatically triggered the new kernel? Or is that kernel needs to be manually

Re: Does apt-get dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?

the 686 version) This package is a dummy package that depends on the latest kernel, currently linux-image-2.6.38-2-686. If you do, then apt-get dist-upgrade will install the new kernel when available (but it won't remove your old kernel). Regards -- Dom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

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