On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 04:17:00PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > - I started the upgrade within X. Partway through the upgrade, dbus got (...) > specific packages to upgrade first from a console. Due to this issue, > I did the rest of the upgrade from a console. This is the recommended mechanism for upgrades, see: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-preparations > - Restarting gdm (each time) switches to the gdm terminal, so I had to > switch *back* to the console to finish the upgrade. Described already in the Release Notes, see: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#console-change > - udev renamed all network interfaces to new names after the upgrade, > despite the MAC addresses and similar not changing. I had to manually > edit persistent-net.rules to fix them back to eth0 and wlan0. This is not expected, device renumbering could happen (see http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#device-reorder). Did you have the proper rules defined in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules or did they change? > - I ended up grabbing 2.6.37 from unstable to get a better wireless > driver. When I installed 2.6.37, it warned about missing firmware > from firmware-iwlwifi, but the system already had the latest version > of firmware-iwlwifi installed. Maybe this needs to be submitted as a separate bug report to the kernel maintainers. Do you have a full log of the upgrade (as described in [1]) this could be helpful to review it. Regards Javier [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#record-session > > > - Josh Triplett > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-testing-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 20110220001700.16210.85893.reportbug@feather">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 20110220001700.16210.85893.reportbug@feather >
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