broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Don Erickson
Hello, I've been having a heck of a time upgrading a 1.3.1 bo (originally 1.2) system to hamm using autoup. Everything is installed up to libreadlineg2 in the autoup script, then libreadlineg2's post install script bombs out and leaves the system in an essentially unusable state (nearly

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Don Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been having a heck of a time upgrading a 1.3.1 bo (originally 1.2) system to hamm using autoup. Everything is installed up to libreadlineg2 in the autoup script, then libreadlineg2's post install script bombs out and leaves the system in an

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Damascus
I got A LOT of problems when trying to upgrade, my lack of response the past few days is because I was fixing my box. :) Well, this is the 'best' way to upgrade to glibc2, unfortunately, it is a very undesirable solution. Install 1.3.R6 fresh, THEN as dselect comes up, cancel,

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Ben Pfaff
I got A LOT of problems when trying to upgrade, my lack of response the past few days is because I was fixing my box. :) Well, this is the 'best' way to upgrade to glibc2, unfortunately, it is a very undesirable solution. Install 1.3.R6 fresh, THEN as dselect

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] write: Actually, the best way to install 2.0, AFAICT and IMHO, is to use the brand-new 2.0 install disks. You can find them in the usual archives in the disks-i386 distribution. That is unquestionably the best way, if the disks work on your machine, however

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, the best way to install 2.0, AFAICT and IMHO, is to use the brand-new 2.0 install disks. You can find them in the usual archives in the disks-i386 distribution. Would that be: ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/current/ And the

Re: broken hamm upgrade

1998-03-08 Thread Don Erickson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: The only thing the libreadlineg2 postinst does is ldconfig. I suggest you run ldconfig and see what error it complains about. This is most likely a dangling symlink. Removing the dangling symlink often cures the problem. If the ldconfig error is