Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:04:38 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: grave > > This is the third jessie upgrade I perform from jessie. The previous one > was documented in #774314. > > It seems that the dependency loop problems are still there, and there were so > many problems with the upgrade that I don't believe it would be right to > release jessie as such (hence the "grave" severity). I know that I certainly > can't spend the 6h i did on this workstation on all the workstations in the > office. :) > > I followed the two-stage upgrade procedure from the install manual. My > notes are here: > > https://wiki.koumbit.net/JessieUpgrade > > During the `dist-upgrade` step (after the `upgrade`), there was a > failure i couldn't trace back (because i somehow got out of that ttyrec > by mistake). After that, I got the following error trying to run > `dist-upgrade` again: > Do you still have the pre-upgrade dpkg status file? [...] > The next problem I found was with gdm3: it was startup, but would only show the > top toolbar: no user menu or user/password prompt. I worked around the problem > by installing lightdm. I suspect this may be related to our LDAP setup. > It usually has a "not listed? click here" bar that lets non-/etc/passwd users log in, IME. Was that not available? Do you have logs from gdm? Cheers, Julien
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