Bug#606800: upgrade-reports: Upgrade lenny->squeeze (ppc): successful, a md5sum error workaround

[Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 02:05:11PM -0500, Drew Engelbrecht wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: normal
> 
> I followed the online directions to upgrade from lenny to squeeze.
> 
> "apt-get upgrade" was successful. I then installed the newer kernel and
> udev. At some point in this process, the characters became distorted, as if
> in some foreign script. Switching back from another tty to the one i was
> using for the installation solved/avoided this issue. Then I rebooted.

Would you remember after which package you have seen the first weird
characters ?
 
> I used "apt-get -d dist-upgrade" in multiple stages to download packages
> before I attempted the full upgrade. apt-get complained that it couldn't
> find 3 of the required packages, so I ran "apt-get update", however, there
> were complaints about md5sum mismatches, if I recall. (I don't think that I
> included this in the installation scripts.) Using "aptitude update"
> completed the update successfully and allowed me to run "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" successfully.

Indeed I cannot find this in the script/log you have provided.
It may be linked to a temporally issue on of the the ftp.us.debian.org backend.
Did you encounter md5sum errors at "apt-get update" stage or download stage of
a specific package ?

Thanks for your report.

-- 
Simon Paillard