notes on upgrade from bo to hamm
I just finished upgrading from bo to hamm. It worked almost
flawlessly. Here are my notes.
After running the upgrade script, any new bashes that i start dont
work with set -o vi, even if i run that command manually. The problem
appears only on the linux console, if i telnet it with a VT100 terminal
emulator then vi keybindings work right.
X doesnt work any more... When i try to start my X server, it switches
to video mode and hangs. I have to log in remotely and reboot.
I had a working X installation under Debian 1.3.1. I did the upgrade
to hamm, and tried to run X. It hung. I reconfigured it using XF86Setup.
The VGA server ran fine, but when it tried to start the S3 serveer it
freaked out as above.
The partition with my /usr on it filled up while i was upgrading X.
I saw no complaints from the packages being installed, fixed the problem
(freed up a bunch of space by moving the kernel sources off) and continued
the install. Perhaps one of the X packages does not properly deal with
disk-is-full errors? I'll try uninstalling everything and installing
it fresh on a roomier disk.
A couple of problems with installation and configuration of specific
packages:
Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /usr/local/tmp/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.6-2.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/include/ndbm.h', which is also in package libgdbmg1-dev
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
I uninstalled libgdbmg1-dev and installed libc6-dev, then it worked.
Preparing to replace gv 2.9.4-3 (using .../text/gv_3.5.8-4.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gv ...
dpkg: error processing /home/kuzminsk/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/text/gv_3.5.8-4.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/mini-gv.xpm', which is also in package fvwm-common
Preparing to replace wu-ftpd 2.4-27 (using .../net/wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement wu-ftpd ...
dpkg: error processing /home/kuzminsk/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz', which is also in package netstd
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grmonitor:
grmonitor depends on glut3g (>= 3.5-1); however:
Package glut3g is not installed.
dpkg: error processing grmonitor (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
This one's just a typo, the package it REALLY depends on is called
glutg3. I dont know which should change, the package name or the
dependency.
All in all i think that went real smooth. Thanks a lot everybody!
Sebastian
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