Bug#793175: successful upgrade, but with a number of bumps and bugs post-upgrade
Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
I upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie using apt-get, following the instructions in
the release notes. The upgrade worked, but I experienced a number of problems
and bumps on the way, needed to fix various problems post-upgrade, and still
haven't figured some out.
1) I use rungetty via inittab with the --autologin option; this seems to have
stopped working (systemd related?)
2) xfce4-utils no longer exists in stable, so it was removed - and I lost
xfrun4. Took a bit of sleuthing to find that what I now need is
xfce4-appfinder. Perhaps some sort of transitional package should be
established? See also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793073 .
3) I did the upgrade in X. At some point during the process, X terminated and I
was dumped back at the console, and could have lost data. The notes are
ambiguous on whether upgrading in an xterm is acceptable - they initially
recommend a textmode virtual console, but subsequently imply that an xterm is
fine as long as one isn't using a display manager (which I wasn't - startx from
a virtual console).
4) I had to run several rounds of apt-get upgrade / dist-upgrade. A different
kernel was required, and when I rebooted (somewhere in between apt-get runs),
the system hung on starting bluetooth. The only way to continue the upgrade was
by entering recovery mode and disabling the bluetooth service.
5) Various things I don't particularly want got installed (NetworkManager,
PulseAudio).
6) On my old install, I had my ThinkPad mute button working properly. Now, it
toggles both 'Master' and 'Speaker' off, but only toggles 'Master back on,
requiring a manual toggling of 'Speaker'.
7) Iceweasel's used to look good under Wheezy. Many pages look quite ugly now
(pixelated, jagged). I can't describe exactly which pages or fonts.
There's probably more to say, but this is a start. Thanks much for all the hard
work on Debian!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.18.18-lizzie (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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