Bug#788518: upgrade-reports: wheezy->jessie upgrade then dist-upgrade

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2015-06-12 11:25, Jackokring wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> A wheezy to jessie upgrade, then a dist-upgrade.
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> During the dist-upgrade the GUI failed, then CTRL+ALT+Fn to console, as I
> guess (?) output hung in GUI console.

Hi,

I am sorry to hear that you experienced issues during the upgrade.

Did you take the percussions mentioned in the release-notes[1]?  Namely,
run the upgrade in a "screen" session or/and outside your X11 environment?

[1]
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-preparations

> Needed reboot and dpkg --configure -a
> to complete on reboot in a no GUI console. Ok then system up.
> PROBLEMS:
> /etc/fstab wrong, it got /home and swap wrong, leading to wait on boot and no
> swap.

Could you please provide the following for both entries?
 * The original value
 * The new value
 * The expected value

> Package virtualbox-dkms not included as per before upgrade.
> 
>[...]


Note that you can pin the package, if you wish to ensure it is never
installed.  The upgrade process may need to install packages as a part
of the upgrade, so it is not uncommon for a dist-upgrade to install new
packages.


Thanks,
~Niels