On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 17:08:29 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: important
>
> Deciding it was time, I upgraded my old Lenny system to Squeeze. I followed
> the multi-step instructions (upgrade, install new kernel, install new udev,
> dist-upgrade. Or so I thought. The upgrade seemed to go well enough, as did
> the kernel and udev steps.
>
> The dist-upgrade failed:
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> vde2
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
You snipped the relevant earlier error message. Please attach the full
log from the upgrade.
> That left ~255 old packages undeleted. It took a while, but I think I finally
> got the mess cleaned up, re-ran dist-upgrade, then continued cleaning up.
> Bits of KDE 3.5 weren't deleted, bits of KDE 4 weren't installed, and it took
> days to get the user side of KDE to a point where it is marginally usable
> again. But this is all par for the course so far; the upgrade isn't a finished
> product yet.
>
> I do have some observations.
>
> 1) If my IDE ZIP drive is plugged in, it is detected as /dev/sda; my first SATA
> drive is then detected as /dev/sdb. The system panics because it cannot find
> its partitions. For the time being, I've unplugged the ZIP drive. I've not
> tried booting with USB drives plugged in. either udev did not upgrade properly,
> or the rules need stweaking.
>
Please attach /etc/fstab, and log from the error.
> 2) Using X and KDE, 'transient' windows will randomly leave their images
> behind, as though X's backing store isn't working right. Forcing a redraw
> usually cures the problem. I've no clue where this problem might be (fbdev?).
>
Please attach the X log (/var/log/Xorg.0.log).
> 3) I've been using my KDE user environment since Etch. It's definitely time
> to dump it and start anew; I'll do that once I figure out how to save kmail
> settings and konqueror bookmarks and akregator histories. It's gotten to
> where konqueror is simply unusable: most ajax sites still don't work, the
> location bar rarely displays correctly (if at all), and editting toolbars
> and some settings usually results in a crash. Oh, and rendering HTML like
> <scan style="size:50%">Some text<img src={smilie}></span>
> as xhtml transient (replace {smilie} with an URL to a smilie image a little
> larger than the text) causes konqueror 3.5.10 to display an extraneous
> scrollbar and crash, and causes konqueror 4.4.5 to just display an
> extraneous scroll bar. Move the image outside the span and all is well.
>
Please file a separate bug against konqueror.
> 4) Evolution text drag-n-drop using the mouse doesn't work at all, and
> drag-selection using the keyboard has very limited functionality.
>
Please file a separate bug against evolution.
> It may be that upgrades just won't work very well on systems with 8 years
> of user cruft built up. For example, I think I was well into Lenny before
> I discovered the cause of a certain filesystem problem causing crashes and
> hangs: the ReiserFS 3.6 driver worked well with a 3.5 disk structure until
> file sizes exceeded 2GB. But as often as that happened, I never lost data,
> even when I had to rebuild the filesystem.
>
> If my opinion counted for anything, I'd say Lenny-to-Squeeze upgrade for
> user systems isn't yet ready.
>
Thanks for your report.
Cheers,
Julien
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