Bug#606800: upgrade-reports: Upgrade lenny->squeeze (ppc): successful, a md5sum error workaround
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Simon Paillard
<simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr> wrote:
> 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 ?
No, I do not remember. However, I still have this issue with funky
characters whenever I kill a gdm3 session. I know I've had similar
issues (maybe with other packages) while using other distros, and
possibly with lenny as well. I'm pretty sure what's happening is that
the pixel colums of each charcter on the screen in a tty will shift by
1/2 a character, with the half that doens't fit going to the other end
of the character. so basically the left half and right half swap.
(it's not a mirror image.) this happens to all of the characters on
every tty that i go to. Starting gdm3 again makes the characters print
normal as before.
If I kill gdm3, then run "startx" and then quit or kill that session,
the charcters go back to normal.
>> 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 ?
I got the md5sum errors in the downloading stage.
> Thanks for your report.
You're welcome!
Thanks,
-Drew
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