potato->woody upgrade problems (mostly fixed)
apt-get dist-upgrade died while configuring gcc-doc with the message
perl: libc6: version GLIBC_2.2 not found - needed by libdb.so.3.
attempting 'apt-get -f install' failed with the same message.
I installed libc6 from /var/cache/apt using dpkg and 'apt-get -f
install' worked again.
I set up my system with a 1G / partition. Apparently this is not
sufficient for a successful dist-upgrade. I now have to re-download
300M because I had to do an 'apt-get clean' when I ran out of space.
Can /var/cache/apt/archives be a symlink?
Installing konsole failed because it shared its 16x16 icon file with
(the old version of) kdebase. A dpkg -i --force-overwrite got it
installed (but not configured) and 'apt-get -f install' cleaned up
afterwards.
Installing kdebase failed because it shared the 32x32 kfm icon with (the
old version of) konqueror. See above.
One of the tetex packages failed to configure because it couldn't find a
file 'XDvi'. It took several apt-get installs to clear that up. Also I
had broken my lilo configuration by uninstalling the target of the
/vmlinuz.old symlink, which kept lilo from configuring until I worked
out what the problem was.
Debconf really really needs a 'back' button, not just dpkg-reconfigure.
Which package do I reconfigure to fix my monitor settings? Aha,
xserver-svga is it. Hmm, that should have been replaced by
xserver-xfree86 in the woody upgrade, no?
Who hit xdm with an ugly stick?
John
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