I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink). I've got 2.1
on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on the system. The problem I
am having is getting apt-get dist-upgrade to work. When I run the command
(as root) I get the following error message:
Updating package
I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink). I've got 2.1
on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on the system. The problem I
am having is getting apt-get dist-upgrade to work. When I run the command
(as root) I get the following error message:
Updating package
Mark Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MT I'm trying to upgrade a debian 2.0 (hamm) system to 2.1 (slink).
MT I've got 2.1 on a mounted CD-ROM and apt installed correctly on
MT the system. The problem I am having is getting apt-get
MT dist-upgrade to work. When I run the command (as root) I get
Montreal Sat Jan 30 10:19:03 1999
Hey, anyone know what's going on here?:
[asimov] [/cdrom/debian/main/upgrade-i386] sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
E: Internal error, ScoredFix generated breaks.
Exit 100
I'm using 0.1.4.bo. Btw,
Just upgrading a rex box direct to hamm, using apt from the /upgrades
directory on the official CD. I told dselect to remove libreadline2,
which it said was fine.
apt them removed libreadline2, and installed libreadline2g, BEFORE
upgrading bash. bash then didn't work, and bash couldn't be
Hello everyone,
I need an advice on how to do it.
The situation is the following:
I have bo system installed and I have changed ISP and can not seem to
configure ppp to conect to it. I can do it from a different machine and
transfer files using floppies (sorry no network...)
Could someone tell
Lazar Fleysher writes:
I have bo system installed and I have changed ISP and can not seem to
configure ppp to conect to it.
Send me your scripts and the output of plog and I will try to help you.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound;
I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I
didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package,
which has been working fine for a long time on this system.
Anyone see
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Michael Stutz wrote:
I just did an upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0; everything works except for sound;
I'm using the Linux Ultrasound Project's gus driver, compiled as a module. I
didn't change or make any updates to the kernel or to the sound package,
which has been working fine
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
/home/src/interpreter.c:851: undefined reference to `crypt'
I think crypt is in a separate library, so you need -lcrypt on the link
line. No idea whether this changed between bo and hamm though.
HTH,
Havoc Pennington http://pobox.com/~hp
HP == Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
HP I think crypt is in a separate library, so you need -lcrypt on the link
HP line. No idea whether this changed between bo and hamm though.
This is new in libc6 IIRC.
Ciao,
Martin
That did the trick!
Thanks,
Doug
P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was
moved into
its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place.
Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
/home/src/interpreter.c:851:
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:14:17PM -0700, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this
was moved into its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right
place.
/usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz
HTH,
Ray
--
POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human
Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
That did the trick!
Thanks,
Doug
P.S: Just for future information... Where would one find out that this was
moved into
its own library? I obviously didn't look in the right place.
I'm not sure if this is what you are asking for, but 'dpkg -S
Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty
well, though I did have the run the install portion of dselect
several times for it to get through without errors...
Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error in
Hello all,
Well, I seem to be having more problems then I expected after upgrading to
hamm. This is probably someting simple except I can't seem to figure out where
to start looking.
I have a MUD which I have successfully compiled on my pre-upgraded bo system as
well as some redhat erven other
Hello,
I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty well, though
I did have the run the install portion of dselect several times for it to get
through without errors...
Anyhow - Everything seems to have installed fine. But I have now noticed that
my windows manager fvwm95
I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put
in the wrong directory structure into dpkg-ftp and it completely
corrupted my status file -- thank Gd for backups...).
I've now updated all my packages to the versions in the stable hamm
release, and have recompiled my kernel
Just a little more info on this one: I have compiled all of the
requisite parts of the kernel, and I even compiled them in directly
rather than as modules, as I thought that might be part of the
problem.
I have just upgraded from bo to hamm (which was quite a task -- I put
in the wrong
Hi,
I'm not subscribed to debian-user any more because of the volume, but
please feel free to respond to me directly via e-mail if you have
any questions, comments, etc.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I helped a friend upgrade from bo to hamm yesterday over the phone.
This is not easy in and of itself :^)
Hi Phil:
Someone correct me if I'w wrong.
I believe you have to run dselect to install
the rest of the packages that autoup.sh removed
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Phil Dyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 29, 1998 7:48 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: hamm upgrade
I too have noticed a ppp slow down on my bo system. A while back I
updated a bunch of packages, and I think ppp was one of them. Here is
what I think I know about that, even though I dont understand it.
I think that /etc/ppp/options used to have:
mru 542
That line is commented out in the most
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem.
I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages.
Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h,
fstream.h, string, list, etc).
Doing a locate says they are nowhere on the system. Is there a
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote:
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem.
I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages.
Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h,
fstream.h, string, list, etc).
Have you run the rest
Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Phil Dyer wrote:
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem.
I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages.
Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h,
fstream.h, string,
Phil Dyer wrote:
I upgraded to hamm yesterday and have run into a problem.
I used autoup.sh with an ftp connection to get the required packages.
Now I cannot compile c++ code, as it cannot find the libs. (iostream.h,
fstream.h, string, list, etc).
Doing a locate says they are nowhere on
Hi there
I've a dual PPro unit that has been a 33K6 PPP PAP dialin server for the
last year (hamm for the last 3 months), and worked fine, so long as I ran
pppd v2.2 - I kept the old binary lying around and just symlinked it back
in after every ppp update from hamm, because the v2.3 binary didn't
I find a lot of small changes, logs moved from (non-existent) /var/adm, to
/var/logs,
pppd argument changes, ppp setup changes, etc..
It took a bit of fiddling to bet the system re-working.
E.g. pppd now needs a noauth argument, files have moved, etc..
Is there a list of these changes,
Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the routine of
playing with new packages on my home system. :-) So I was playing
with the idea of upgrading to slink and running that.
Unlike the upgrade from bo to hamm, I can find no docs/readme's on a
hamm to slink upgrade. Can someone who
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Both hamm and slink are libc6-based so the upgrade should be quite
painless. If a package does not work for you, you always can revert to the
version in hamm easily.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
Version: 2.6.3ia
Charset: latin1
Thus far I have simply installed any slink packages that were not available for
my hamm system (tya, karpski, xteddy, libc6-dev etc), and everything has worked
fine.
Does anyone know otherwise?
Timothy
On 10-Jun-98 Randy Edwards wrote:
Now that hamm has been frozen I'm starting to miss the
packages, but there
remain a large group of things which depend on xlib6g which isn't
available. I remain very loathe to re-boot until I can get xlib6g.
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
I just finished my bo - hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet
because
during
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
When Bob Nielsen wrote, I replied:
Thanks for the reply. There were myriad things (fvwm* among them) that
wouldn't load as they depended on xlib6g which wasn't available.
I ran and re-ran install and config and remove phases until my remaining
Thanks guys for your help! I can't thank you enough!!!
Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing
root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a
ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the boot: prompt
from the rescue disk
Hi all,
This is a second attempt at trying to get this issue resolved and an
update, so please excuse some repetition.
I upgraded to hamm over the weekend(using autoup.sh).
After the upgrade I removed all devel packages to get a clean start.
My first goal was to compile a new kernel. So I
it!)
Is there anyone in particular I should be sending this to?
Waiting anxiously,
Mark.
-Forwarded Message
Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 21:15:53 +0930 (CST)
From: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Help! Major crash in Hamm upgrade
Hi,
Use the Debian Rescue disk to boot your system but mount your existing
root partition as the root instead of allowing the rescue disk to mount a
ram disk as root. For example, when presented with the boot: prompt
from the rescue disk type:
linux root=/dev/hda1
Substitute whatever
I have upgraded to hamm over the weekend and now I can't seem to config
the kernel(kernel-source-2 2.0.32-5 from hamm) for a recompile.
'make menuconfig' and 'make xconfig' fail with:
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first'
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0x18): undefined
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have upgraded to hamm over the weekend and now I can't seem to config
the kernel(kernel-source-2 2.0.32-5 from hamm) for a recompile.
'make menuconfig' and 'make xconfig' fail with:
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first'
I just finished my bo - hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet
because
during the upgrade, I couldn't install fvwm2 or fvwm95 and I'm afraid
that if I
re-boot, I may loose my X environment. Any advice??
Auch, I see that my display mumble.jpg and xlock commands are no longer
working
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote:
I just finished my bo - hamm upgrade but havn't rebooted the system yet
because
during the upgrade, I couldn't install fvwm2 or fvwm95 and I'm afraid
that if I
re-boot, I may loose my X environment. Any advice??
What errors did you get when trying
The last few days I have been upgrading to hamm. I rebooted my computer
and it died badly. Instead of coming up with lilo, it repeatedly typed:
LI
LI
LI
LI
LI
LI
...etc
down the screen. It looks like the boot sector has been corrupted or
something like that, but I don't know what I've done
Back again. I've tried a few more things and thought I should report what
I've found. (In case you didn't read my earlier email - I've had a major
crash while attempting to upgrade to hamm.)
I have managed to boot under a rescue disc (I think it's a bo one). I
copied e2fsck from my brother's
Hi all,
I just finished an upgrade to hamm and I am having problems. The first
thing I decied to do was compile a new kernel. So I download the
kernel-2.0.32 source package. When I 'make menuconfig' it breaks with
/usr/lib/crt1.o(.text+0xe): undefined reference to `__libc_init_first'
Thanks to the several folks who helped me with several post-upgrade
problems. These were related to getting my old libc5-compiled versions of
Applix and Netscape running. Although a libc6 version of Netscape is
available, I wanted to not spend money for a newer Applix even if available
at least
I am trying to upgrade to Hamm. I have run the autoup script, I think
successfully. Now I am trying to run deselect to upgrade everything else,
but it bombs out when I try to install, complaining that:
Looking for part 1 of dpkg-perl ...
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
# dpkg --info ../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb
dpkg-deb: `../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb' is not a debian
format archive
What's wrong? I can't upgrade anything using dselect as a result of this
bug.
Try getting dpkg-perl
Hi,
I am currently running a bo system, but want to upgrade to hamm. I
think I have read that upgrading to hamm requires special care and
involves taking special steps. I was under the impression that there
existed documentation that would explain all this, however I have searched
a debian
Mark Phillips wrote:
I am currently running a bo system, but want to upgrade to hamm. I
think I have read that upgrading to hamm requires special care and
involves taking special steps. I was under the impression that there
existed documentation that would explain all this, however I
I had installed the essential files seperatly as per the
instructions in libc6 HOWTO. I hope it was safe to then
use dpkg-ftp (which stopped seg faulting after I removed
a dangling ncurses sym link) to try to ease the upgrade
of other packages, because this is what I tried to do.
Many
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Britton wrote:
Is this the expected behavior? If so, what is the accepted way to tell
these packages to configure themselves, or each other, or whatever?
Thanks.
Have you tried to put them on the same commandline like this:
dpkg -i libs/libpam0g_0.57b-0.deb
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
Yesterday I decided to take the plunge
I ftp'd the entiret of the hamm/binary-i386 directory and with a little
bit of directory setup...
burned it onto a CD
I then brough tit home from work and updated my bo system to a hamm
system
I first mounted the CD and used autoup.sh (latest version)
)
localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d)
One thing that seems unusual is that there is no /etc/cron.d, as syslog
complains (above), so I'm wondering if this may have resulted from the
hamm upgrade. I've reviewd the upgrade document, but see no mention of
it. I have all
)
localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
localhost /usr/sbin/cron[1520]: (CRON) STAT FAILED (/etc/cron.d)
One thing that seems unusual is that there is no /etc/cron.d, as syslog
complains (above), so I'm wondering if this may have resulted from the
hamm upgrade. I've reviewd
On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, you wrote:
Many packages didn't install, and some could not be removed
(timezone, wg15-locale, etc). I manually
removed the packages the script didn't, then ran autoup.sh again,
What version of autoup.sh did you use? The most recent is
v0.19. The problems you
Hello All,
Yesterday I took the plunge, and tried to upgrade my Bo system to Hamm
via
the
autoup.sh script found at the Debian web site. I specified ftp to acquire
the new files, and let the
script run with defaults to ftp.debian.org. My system was 2.0.31 kernel,
with libc6 and
Hi,
I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect |
ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was
through I rebooted and life was good. Good work, Debian Team. :-)
Then I restarted dselect and decided to upgrade /hamm/non-free and
/hamm/contrib,
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, David Stern wrote:
Hi,
I used the auto-upgrade script to upgrade to hamm, then used dselect |
ftp to upgrade a couple hundred packages in /hamm/hamm, then after I was
through I rebooted and life was
I don't know why that didn't work, but all is well if you use
/dists/unstable instead of /hamm:
Connecting to ftp.debian.org...
Login as anonymous...
Setting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to /debian...
Getting Packages file from dists/unstable/main/binary-i386...
Getting Packages file from
On Thu, 05 Feb 1998 14:18:18 EST, Scott Ellis wrote:
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5
Well, you helped me to figure it out. The problem was my preceeding
forward slash before the directory name. It doesn't seem to matter if
I use hamm or dists/unstable, just
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
'smtp_hello_broken_allow=localnet'.
I have the same (or a
David Gaudine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, David Gaudine wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
Yes. Smail now rejects connections from hostnames which don't have
a dot in them. The fix is to change the line in /etc/smail/config
which reads '-smtp_hello_broken_allow' to read
I performed the hamm upgrade using Craig's script (all went fine) and
letting dselect do it's thing. I had a scare when e2fsck wouldn't work
after I rebooted, but was able to install a few remaining packages and get
it to work.
I have two remaining problems (at least until I try installing some
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get:
[Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand: 'localhost' ]
I have 'localhost' configured as the smtp server in pine, which used to
send the message through
Thanks, that fixed it.
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote:
On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:29:41PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
2. When trying to send a message from pine, I get:
[Error sending: 501 HELO requires a valid host name as operand:
'localhost' ]
I have 'localhost' configured
My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the
steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I
decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded
60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through
a couple of passes of
My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the
steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I
decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded
60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through
a couple of passes of Install
Can you say boot disk?
For a boot disk I use the Debian install boot disk. From dos you can
edit the syslinux.cfg file to mount the correct disk as root. (and you
can disable the ramdisk if you need to.) Useing the boot disk will not
fix things but you should be able to log on and get a look
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Maria Lynn Jason Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
INIT: version 2.73 booting
INIT: Cannot execute /etc/init.d/boot
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Do the following:
- boot the system with -b added on the LILO command line
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to
reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER
ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete
reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how
many things it broke. It broke things real good. :-) Since I did
Yup. :)
have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy
of Debian 1.2 and installed the
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote:
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to
reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER
ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo
system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or
so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance.
Regards,
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo
system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or
so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance
would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance.
You can find them
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 01:14:56PM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo
system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or
so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing
libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential
libc5 package first or force the installation of libc6 in addition to
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote:
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing
libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential
libc5 package first
Hello,
I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system
works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is
broken. 'login', 'sysvinit' packages are the new ones, but 'last' writes
complete garbage, and a slight view at wtmp shows something different than
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Peter Gervai wrote:
Hello,
I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system
works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is
broken. 'login', 'sysvinit' packages are the new ones, but 'last' writes
complete garbage, and a
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Scott Ellis wrote:
I'm about upgrading to hamm, probably in the middle of it. THe system
works and no problems detected at all until I realised that my 'last' is
broken.
[...]
The format of the utmp/wtmp file has changed between libc5 and libc6. The
version of
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