upgrading from corel linux to potato
I've heard several people ask if this is possible. It is, but it's not
exactly clean. The first problem I ran into is that /etc/syslogd.conf is in
kde-corel, in conflict with the sysklogd package. You have to turn on
force-overwrites to get past that, since corel didn't make the packages
conflict. Next the cron upgrade failed with an odd error about being unable
to lock /var/run/cron.pid. Manually killing the dron daemon allowed it to
proceed. I don't know if this problem was corel-specific or not.
I took the defaults on everything else, and my apt-get -f dist-upgrade
completed. I rebooted and the boot died into single user mode. I think this
is because of kernel module versioning problems, there are certianly enough
errors about that. However, hitting ctrl-d lets it keep on booting, and it
booted all the way up to X successfully.
Interestingly, my root password did not work in the corel xdm login box,
though I can log into the console fine. In fact, no passwords work in it
after the potato upgrade, it's quite hosed. I haven't looked at the rest of
the system.
All in all, a rougher upgrade than you'd expect to see from any debian
version to any other.
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see shy jo
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