Re: Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch
On 09.09.07 19:34, Chris Austin wrote:
> I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it
> from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to
> install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer
> algebra system), and for this I had to start upgrading packages to the
> current Stable system, which is Etch. However I hit a circular dependency
> problem trying to upgrade libc6, so started upgrading packages with the
> Check Dependencies checkbox deselected, in the KPackage windows that were
> started by Konqueror, when I downloaded packages from the Debian website.
> At some stage e2fsprogs and e2fslibs were upgraded in this way, but I always
> hit an error trying to upgrade libc6, even after I exited KDE and tried to
> stop kdm with the kill signal in top. I then found that kdm no longer
> restarted KDE, so to access the Internet I had to dual boot to MS Windows.
> Trying to reboot in Linux now starts a file system that is Read Only, with
> lots of warnings and errors. It seems from some of the error messages that
> I now need to install the libuuid1 package, but I cannot do this because the
> file system is started Read Only. I can get a writable file system by
> booting from the old Woody rescue.bin floppy, but file locations then need
> to be prepended by /target, and dpkg gives an error message: relocation
> error, symbol _obstack_begin, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file
> libc.so.6 with link time reference.
That's why yyou should never upgrade across two versions. You still can
upgrade to sarge and then to etch.
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