Re: power failure during upgrade

[Guillaume TESSIER <gtessier@fusemail.com>]

Joe Mc Cool wrote:

> in order to upgrade from woody to sarge I did:
>
>    apt-get update
>    apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> off it went, but unfortunately I had a power failure during the 
> upgrade and my system got hosed.  (I repeated the above steps, but my 
> system would then boot only with a ro root filesystem.)
>
> So, coward that I am, I restored my entire system from a woody tape.
>
> Now when I repeat the above two steps I am told there are zero 
> packages to upgrade :-(
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
"power failure during upgrade"

Damn...

Maybe while being disapointed and sending all damnation on the power 
plant, you forgot to modify your sources.lists

Before performing the update && dist-upgrade you have to make your 
sources.list point at the new repository.

But, i'm not pretty sure about it but i think woody doesn't have support 
for journalazed fileystems as ext3 and reiserfs. This means wathever you 
are uptodate with packages, on of the biggest problem of woody will 
still be there : ext2 filesystem.

Journalized filesystem can realy save you from the powerfailure chaos 
cause it keeps a save track of your files every 5 seconds.

G