On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:27:47PM -0500, Jimmie Houchin wrote: > I have experienced roughly the same things. Same here - should it be recommended that users first upgrade to woody, and then to sid/unstable? > I did a small Potato install from CD. > changed my sources to woody. > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Complete failure. As a new user to Debian I can't say who's at fault > where. I am still learning apt-get, dselect and dpkg. Not a complete failure, just annoying. Things I noticed: 1) task-c++ (or whatever it is) shouldn't be installed/configured until after libc6 has been configured, as the former depends on 2.2.* of the latter. I had to manually removed g++ et al so I could continue with the upgrade, and then I had to reinstall g++. 2) debconf didn't get upgraded at all for some reason, which left really annoying error messages about DESTROYing things. Could the priority of this package be upped a little? 3) anXious/xserver-xfree86 didn't generate a config file, leaving the installed display manager (in this case gdm) spawning too fast for init's liking. I assume 3 is dependant on 2. All in all it was a tad embarrassing for me, as I was wearing my sysadmin/DD hat and doing an install for a coworker. "Oh, this won't be any trouble", I said, "it'll only take 10 minutes." Nearly three quarters of an hour later I was able to say "there, that might work...". Hardly ideal. The Gnome transition was fairly smooth - it was hindered slightly by ~/.gnome* still having 1.0.* stuff. Perhaps this could be dealt with in a fashion similar to the fvwm1->fvwm2 upgrade? I've not filed bugs because this report is just based on remembering what happened yesterday. Regards, Edward. -- Edward C. Lang <edlang@pcug.org.au> woot on irc.openprojects.net Encrypted mail prefered. KeyID: 1024D/61A332F6
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