Re: Bug#509012: Upgrading from Sarge (stable) to Etch fails
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 02:05:44PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> reassign 509012 upgrade-reports
> severity 509012 normal
> thanks
>
> On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Pavel Fedin wrote:
> > When i upgraded my Sarge installation using apt-get dist-upgrade i
> > went into unresolvable circular dependency problem (some packages
> > failed to configure and upgrade was aborted). I had to spent several
> > hours in order to fix the problem manually. First, i had to uninstall
> > GNOME desktop. After this i had to force-install packages that failed.
> > Then i reinstalled missing GNOME stuff.
IIRC, the upgrade from sarge to etch was a monstrous event; in the end,
on machines that used X, it was easier just to reinstall. This was,
apparently, because too many major changes happened to X simultaneously
-- change from Xfree to Xorg, a new modular architecture, and just to
make life awkward, a new udev.
On my machine that didn't run X, it was a breeze.
-- hendrik
>
> As this is an upgrade issue and not an installation issue, I'm reassigning
> your report to the correct place.
>
> Note that the Debian project is currently preparing the Lenny release, so
> I doubt upgrade issues from Sarge to Etch will get much attention
> anymore.
>
> I assume you _did_ follow the upgrade instructions documented in the Etch
> release notes? If not, then it is quite possible your problems could have
> been avoided by following those instructions.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP
>
>
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