Bug#598261: upgrade-reports: lenny to squeeze, several issues
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: squeeze
A couple of days ago I upgraded a lenny desktop to squeeze, here is a summary
of issues encountered
- What caused quite some hickups is that udev refused to be upgraded before the
kernel was.
- Evolution failed to upgrade properly, there was a debconf message to quit
evolution, saying I should exit evolution, else the upgrade would be cancelled.
I run evolution --force-shutdown, still the package refused to continue
One of those upgrade failures caused a dependency chain of failures and many
interruptions. I the end I had to upgrade the kernel manually in order to be
able to continue
A big disappointment was that after the upgrade the primary sound card, an
ens1371 card refused to emit any sound. Same btw on Ubuntu 10.4, which is
installed in parallel on the same box. This appears to be a driver issue with
no easy fix.
What was really annoying is that after the upgrade, all logins, both GDM and at
the console, hung. It seems to be related to samba. Stopping samba fixes it. I
have not been able to exactly pin down the reason, however, I have seen the
same on Ubuntu 10.4 with the same Samba config.
More sound issues: With the newer version of pulseaudio, runing "echo suspend
1|pacmd" causes 100% CPU load, the command never finishes, you have to kill it.
On Login, Gnome emits a message about certain panel items no longer being
available, i.e. the mixer applet and the keyboard indicator applet, as both
have been replace by notification area icons. However, the pop-up claims that
this is a one-time notifications, which it is not. It pops up again after each
login. Not even running gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel help. The only
way of getting rid of this is by manually removing the applets from the gconf
key /apps/panel/general/applet_id_list
Further, the performance of the proprietary NVidia driver seems to have
worsened considerably. There box has a GeForce 5200 card.
There was a couple of other issues, still, in the end I restored my backup of
lenny, therefore I cannot give all the details anymore. Hope this report is
still not totally useless..
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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