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Re: error during testing upgrade destroyed partition



On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote:
> Hi debian developpers,

Well, this should have been to debian-user@lists.debian.org
Let's move to there.  (Sounds like pcmcia-cs issues discussed in
debian-user@lists.debian.org recently.)

> during an upgrade of testing I had kernel panic which completely destroyed 
> the partition (I can mount it and read some things, but not fsck it) .
> I think the last messages before the panic on the screen came from the 
> pcmcia packages (I am using a laptop). Is there a log of the apt upgrade 
> (I did it with aptitude) on the destroyed partition ?

Wow, but is this true?  Maybe all you had was an unbootable system.  Did
you use rescue disk to mount the hardisk?

Read the current pcmcia-cs bug reports (#'s 133968 & 134211).

> I am using kernel 2.4.5 and woody with regularly upgrades.

Kind of old.  2.4.17 is latest kernel-image

> I copied the whole system to another partition a few days ago but 
> everything, including the first upgrades worked as usual.

> P.S. Please cc me, because I am currently not subscribed to debian-devel
> P.S.2 I am sorry for perhaps being in the wrong list, but I thought this 
> could be of interrest for you.
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