upgrading to etch after installing sarge
Hi,
Just installed sarge on a P4 box, then ran synaptic and upgraded to etch
during which I got this:
* Configuring debconf
* unpacking replacement locales
* preparing to replace 2.3.2.dsl-22 (using libc6_2.3.5-i386.deb)
* [snip]
* Name Service Switch update in C Library...
* [snip]
* gdm must be stopped before glibc upgrade
* [snip]
* Continue Y/n:
So at that point I quit the process. This was my second pass at doing an
install on this machine.
The first time when I got to this point, I continued with the process and
wound up with a "locale" problem and a warning that "udev requires kernel >=
2.6.12 upgrade aborted." Gnome was hosed while KDE continued to work. But,
after this second install now I have a working desktop system with both Gnome
and KDE.
I'm a relative noob. Had etch with the 2.4 kernel working on a P2 machine
which literally caught on fire (black, smelly smoke kind of fire). On the
new one I installed the 2.6.8 kernel.
I'd like to move to etch (testing) and am wondering what to do after running
into the above problem. Do I boot to a command prompt and run aptitude as a
work around? Or ...?
Andy
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