Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

[Brian Kimsey-Hickman <kimhick@gmail.com>]

Tom,

Please accept my apologies.  With having having to manage 8 different
operating systems including MS NT, 2000, 2003, Cisco IOS, Cisco CatOS,
Cisco PIX, and Red Hat Advanced Server, Debian has by far been the
best to manage and the easiest to upgrade.  I used dselect to upgrade
from potato to woody so I, apparently mistakenly, thought I could use
the same method this time around.

And yes, you are absolutely right, I SHOULD HAVE READ THE DOCUMENTATION

I do have a question though, what specifically are you referring to
when you say the "fine manual" ?  Is this the installation guide at:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install

or the Progeny User Guide at:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/users-guide.en.html

Or maybe some other source.  I have just not heard of the term "fine
manual" before.  But, you obviously know more about this than I do.

I did followed your advice and I am still getting the following error:

sed: can't read /etc/X11/Xserver: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xserver-rage128 (--remove):
  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
  xserver-rage128
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I just cannot seem to be able to get the xserver-rage128 package out
of my system.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help, sorry for the rant,

Brian



On 6/13/05, Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
> Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote:
> > Help me please!
> >
> > I have mistakenly trusted the Debian community and upgraded to Sarge
> > and it is a DISASTER.
> >
> > HOW COULD YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO US ! ! !
> >
> 
> With a post like this, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't get much
> help.  You're not exactly welcoming...
> 
> I don't know why you used dselect to do this.
> I am pretty certain that you really don't want to use dselect when doing
>   a distribution upgrade.  Did you read the very fine manual before
> upgrading?
> 
> If not, then you might consider doing that now.
> 
> However, if you are short on time and can't be bothered, you might
> attempt the following:
> 
> Assumption:
> between your sources.list and preferences files you are choosing stable
> by default and that you have a sources.list that includes all the proper
> debian branches.
> 
> apt-get autoclean;  this will clean up your cache directory, good thing
> to do every once in a while but no required.
> 
> apt-get update;
> 
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> This is the way you are supposed to do an upgrade of this type.  Not
> dselect.
> 
> If it doesn't work for you, start with an apt-get check to see what the
> status is.  Then you might be able to get some more useful information
> for people to use in order to help you get out of this jam.  help us to
> help you.
> 
> However, if you continue to come off as "How can you do this to me" then
> enjoy being a pseudo-victim becuase you were the one who didn't read the
> fine manual.  Self Abuse is nothing we can be guilty of.
>