Package: upgrade-reports Filing this to the right place, so issues can be cloned/reassigned to specific packages. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 19:45:19 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > 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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