[Please reply to all.] On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 17:35 +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: [...] > > 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? > > The answer to both questions is "yes". So did you see the messages about device names changing, and the need to update configuration files - either automatically or manually? [...] > Thank you for taking an interest in my problem. I'm sorry, but I'm only interested in the problem if it involves an actual bug and not a mistake on your part. I am still trying to work out which it is... Going back to your description of the problem: > Run "apt-get dist-upgrade" > > This stage started OK, asked for the first DVD to be mounted and did > all that it could with the data on the first DVD. It then halted and > asked to insert the second DVD. > > This could not be done. Did you mount the first DVD, or did APT do so automatically? When you say that inserting the second DVD 'could not be done', do you mean that the drive was locked? Was the first DVD still mounted? [...] > 2. > # ls -alF /cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 21 2009 /cdrom -> media/cdrom/ > > i.e. the changed entry in /etc/fstab had no effect The mount command follows symlinks. Since /cdrom is a symlink to /media/cdrom, and that is a symlink to /media/cdrom0 (right?), /dev/hdc will really be mounted at /media/cdrom0. None of this should be a problem for apt-cdrom. Can you send the output of 'apt-config dump'? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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