Bug#697103: various upgrade issues on a desktop system
Package: upgrade-reports
I've done an upgrade of a desktop system from squeeze to wheezy
I notice the following:
Starting the upgrade:
- I tried "apt-get dist-upgrade"
- I got some error about APT::Immediate-Configure
- therefore, I just ran "apt-get upgrade" and then I ran "apt-get -o
APT::Immediate-Configure=false dist-upgrade"
- upgrading aborted due to the vlc-nox problem
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=685243
- however, it resumed successfully with "apt-get -f install" (so my
system was less broken than last time I hit that bug)
Disk space:
- root filesystem became full. apt-get didn't warn me how much disk
space was really needed.
network-manager:
- network-manager was not previously on the machine, but was installed
by the upgrade
- it modified the /etc/network/interfaces file (which was previously
working) to comment out the eth0
- consequently, I had various problems with NFS mounts failing and iSCSI
initiator hanging for a long time at boot
- I found that dpkg --purge network-manager doesn't work due to
dependency from gnome
- restoring /etc/network/interfaces appears to fix the problem - network
manager is still running, but it is no longer managing eth0
gnome launchers lost:
- after I log in to my desktop, I notice that all the launchers I had on
the top panel (e.g. for quickly accessing various ssh sessions) are gone
gnome-screenshot:
- this doesn't work any more after the upgrade
ca-certs (for java?):
- lots of error messages appeared during the install of some CA certs,
but apt-get said all packages were upgraded successfully
/etc/default/rcS
- I was asked if I want to change file to the newest version
- I chose to keep old version
- it was subsequently modified to comment out RAMTMP, but without
telling me (I only discovered this by accident)
- it would be better if all of the above was obvious in a single step
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