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Re: error during testing upgrade destroyed partition



On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid <Harald.Schmid16@epost.de> was heard to say:
> during an upgrade of testing I had kernel panic wich complitely 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 ?

  aptitude can log what you're doing, but unfortunately, you have to
explicitly enable the log in a configuration file.  So you probably
don't have it enabled.  If you have apt-listchanges installed, it might
have emailed the changelogs to root.  You could check that.

  Daniel

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