Bug#619521: upgrade-reports: "dist-upgrade" -using DVDs cannot be completed
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
I have submitted the report (details below) before. But, because I am new to
"reportbug, I incorrectly selected to report it under #609566. As a result,
my posting was filed and ignored.
So, here is a copy of the posting - with additional information:
I attempted to use the DVDs of the Official release of Debian 6.0 by
following the routines described in the release notes - chapter 4.
Everything worked correctly until I got to Section 4.4.6.
"apt-get dist-upgrade" found 607 packages to be upgraded, 753 packages to be
newly installed and 70 packages to be removed. It invited me to load the
first DVD, made all the changes to packages that were on that DVD and then
asked me to insert the second DVD.
This command could not be carried out - for the following reason:
When the dist-upgrade started the sym-link "/cdrom -> /dev/hdc" was correct.
But during the that stage of the "dist-upgrade, the mounted drive had been renamed from /dev/hdc to "/dev/sr0".
Since "/cdrom" still pointed to "/dev/hdc", the drive carriage could not be
opened.
Since I had undertaken the "dist-upgrade" from a virtual terminal
(Ctl+Alt+F1), I switched to a second terminal and did a clean shutdown.
The upgraded system could be booted but was unuseable - full of broken
packages and unmet dependencies.
-- System Information (before the failed dist-upgrade and free from problems):
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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