Hi release team, now that squeeze is frozen I thought that it is time to upgrade my girlfriend’s laptop from lenny to squeeze, so that any bugs we find can be fixed before the release :-) Here is the chronological upgrade report (in case that is of use to someone): Changed the apt-sources to squeeze Ran apt-get dist-upgrade DebConf: „Do you want dash as the shell“. Not sure if this question is relevant to everyone... maybe warning about it in the Release Notes is enough? DebConf note: „You are being upgraded from grub to grub2“. This note does not explain what grub is or why the user should care. Also, I’m not sure if this needs a note – rather it should just work :-) The next question is also from Grub 2, whether it should be loaded from menu.lst or not. Now my girlfriend asks how someone upgrades without a DD next to him... and I’m not sure what to answer. We go with the default (yes). Another grub2-question, about the correctness of the linux commandline. It is empty. We confirm that this is ok. I hope it is. Looks like we are done with the grub2-questions... Question from libc about upgrading services. Confirming default. Evolution warns about a running instance. Ok, we should have stopped such programs. We run evolution --shutdown, as indicated, but the warning re-appears twice. It seems that "evolution --shutdown" does not kill evolution-exchange-storage. The installation is aborted. I kill evolution-exchange-storage and continue by "apt-get -f install" At this point, I see a lot of warnings from perl about "Setting locale failed". Her locale is de_DE.UTF8. Probably because of the interrupted upgrade. It stops one locales is configured. Annoying, but not critical. When "apt-get -f install" is finished, I start "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" again. Another service-restarting-message due to libpam0g. As we are running low on disk-space, I get warnings from mandb about not being able to write on /var/cache/man. The rest works fine, though, so I assume it is due to the 5% reserved space for root. sysv-rc asks whether to switch to dependency based booting. We confirm the default „yes“. Because of the full disk, the installation was interrupted. We made space with "apt-get clean" and then continued with "apt-get -f install". When this was done, a notification-daemon notification popped up „System restart required“ and that we should click the icon in the notification area. I wonder what made that icon come up, we did not install a new kernel yet. We ignored it and re-ran apt-get -u dist-upgrade. There was a message about a changed conffile, although no manual modifications were done: /etc/console-tools/config debconf-question from linux-base about SATA/PATA and device names, and label-IDs. I chose No here (default is Yes), as the device names are already sd??. debconf-message about missing firmware for tigon devices. We had the kernel from lenny-backports installed. That’s it. We gonna restart now, newly found bugs will be reported as usual. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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