Upgrade report
Hi all,
I just want to give a upgrade report to you. Unfortunately I found
the call for upgrade reports /after/ I did the upgrade, so some
information is missing.
Upgrade date:
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2005/05/07
uname -a:
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Linux lotus 2.6.10-mh1 #8 SMP Mon May 9 17:47:49 CEST 2005
i686 GNU/Linux
-> nearly the same before upgrading; new compilation on 9th May just
added a module for serial support
Method:
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As described in the release notes:
http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html
When I upgraded one could find the option '--with-suggests' in
section "4.5.4 Upgrading the rest of the system", but aptitude
didn't know this option. This is already fixed in the release notes.
Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:
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can be found here (before upgrade):
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/sources.list.txt
- Were there any non-Debian packages installed before the upgrade?
If so, what were they?
Yes, but I can't remember all of them.
Acrobat/Adobe Reader 4.0/5.0.x/7
Java SDK 1.4.2_06
OpenOffice.org 1.1.4
jpicedt
webmin
- Was the system pre-update a pure woody system? If not, which
packages were not from woody?
No, but I can't remember all of the backported packages. Here are
some of them:
tetex-bin
tetex-base
tetex-doc
tetex-extra
tetex-src
emacs
xpdf
gs-afpl
xine
sane
xsane
xmms
modutils
cdrecord
mkisofs
cdda2wav
gkrellm
gnupg
dia
gimp
XFree86 4.2.1
Mozilla
BlueZ
- Did any packages fail to upgrade?
Yes. It took several runs of aptitude to upgrade, then everything
was fixed, except of some strange dependencies of emacs, that only
aptitude mentioned. So, I did the last run to upgrade with apt-get.
Two typescripts can be found here:
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/upgrade-to-sarge.typescript.txt
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/upgrade-to-sarge-2.typescript.txt
- Were there any problems with the system after upgrading?
* Yes, unfortunately X froze always immediately after login. The
problem was the graphics driver (nv). Graphic card is GeForce2
GTS/Pro. With XFree86 4.2.1 everything worked fine without any
stability problems. But the nv driver from XFree86 4.3.0 doesn't
work anymore for me. It worked again with the option 'NoAccel', but
then everything was just to slow. So I copied nv_drv.o from version
4.2.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ and everything works
(nearly[1]) fine again. I had to do the same after dist-upgrade
yesterday, when X was upgraged, too. So, the problem isn't fixed.
(BTW: Xorg 6.8.2 has the same problem)
* GNOME didn't start anymore, only GNOME Failsafe worked. The
solution was to edit /usr/share/gdm/BuiltInSessions/default.desktop:
'EXEC=default' changed to 'EXEC=/usr/bin/gnome-session'
* Some fonts in some applications are horrible. I guess, they are
the GTK-1.2 based, but I'm not sure. Before upgrade there were no
problems with fonts in these applications. Here are some screenshots:
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/screenshot-emacs21.png
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/screenshot-unison-gtk.png
In the end you'd like to see the "output of "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l"
from before and after the upgrade". But as mentioned above I found
the call for upgrade reports after I upgraded and I didn't save the
output of the command above. I only took 'dpkg --get-selections' and
'dpkg --get-selections | grep install', that can be found here:
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/dpkg--get-selections-before.all
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/dpkg--get-selections-before
And 'dpkg --get-selections' after upgrade:
http://www.zvisionwelt.de/sarge-upgrade/dpkg--get-selections-after.all
Cheers,
Christoph
[1] In some applications as Acrobat Reader or Mozilla, there are
artefacts of the mouse pointer, when it changes to a magnifier
glass. But they can not be seen in screenshots (I tried it).
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+++ Typografie-Regeln: http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf (1.3a)
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