Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink
> > system. I've copied them all onto hard drives as iso images and
> > loopback mounted them (read only) to avoid mucking around swapping CDs.
> > I then used apt-cdrom to add them all to /etc/apt/sources.list, and
> > ran apt-get update. It gets 64% of the way through Reading Package
> > Lists and then segfaults.
> >
> > This is of course the slink version of apt, 0.3.11.
> > The CD-ROM entries in sources.list are the only ones there.
> > As a wild guess I tried the cache-limit cure for "dynamic mmap ran out
> > of room" on the theory that maybe an older version of apt didn't give
> > such a useful error message. It made no difference; varying the limit
> > didn't affect the 64%.
> >
> > I have also tried dselect, but its multi-cd access method doesn't seem
> > to work; it only lets me tell it about one CD at a time.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to get either of these methods working? Since the C
> > libraries will be upgraded I have no desire to upgrade by hand!
>
> Could you try updating to Potato first? That way, you won't be
> making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software
> in one step.
Would I not then need a set of Potato CDs? (Doing it over dialup is
not an option...)
But I can't upgrade to anything if apt-get update is gonna segfault on
me!
Pigeon
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