On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 04:40 +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data loss You have not explained this claim. > 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. Do you mean that /dev/hdc was mounted on /cdrom? > But during the that stage of the "dist-upgrade, the mounted drive had > been renamed from /dev/hdc to "/dev/sr0". This cannot happen during an upgrade, unless you also reboot into a new kernel version. Did you do that? Is the linux-base package installed? > Since "/cdrom" still pointed to "/dev/hdc", the drive carriage could not be > opened. [...] If /cdrom is indeed a symlink to /dev/hdc, then you should remove the symlink and create an empty directory in its place. If it is a mountpoint and /etc/fstab says that the non-existent /dev/hdc should be mounted there, you should fix /etc/fstab. Neither of these errors prevents you from ejecting the DVD tray with the 'eject' command. > Attached is the script of the crashed "dist-upgrade" > > If that is not enough, I could probably also locate the kernel log > that covers the time period of the crash. I see no crash, only what looks like failure to mount the right disc. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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