Re: catch-22 upgrade (FYI)
Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. Just some info for those considering upgrading from Sarge to
> Etch (or Sid). I just upgraded my system from Debian Sarge, to Debian
> Sid. I initially set out to upgrade to Etch, but circumstances drove me
> to Sid. I changed the repositories in my sources.list from sarge to
> etch, and proceded. After a while it gave an error reading, claiming
> that to upgrade udev, the kernel image had to be greater than 2.6.12 (I
> was using 2.6.8). When trying to install the 2.6.15 kernel image, it
> complained that a newer version of udev was required. The xserver
> protested, committing hare-kare, and I was left using Lynx, and Pico
> (not the cutting edge software I had been anticipating, needless to
> say.) Running "apt-get -f install" did nothing. I then altered the
> sources from Etch, to Sid, and, giving me hope, various changes
> occurred. However, it left me with the same message, that the new udev
> was required. I rebooted using the 2.4.27 kernel image, and ran
> "apt-get -f install", and, strangely enough, it worked. The new kernel
> installed, udev installed, the xserver came back to life, and I ended up
> in an XFCE desktop, with my home directory in tact. An unexpected
> surprise, to be sure, though I'm quite happy to have salvaged my system.
> I'm hoping one day that I'll be samrt and actually make a back-up of my
> system before trying stuff like upgrading again. My OpenOffice.org 2.0
> (converted from alien) seems to have vanished. I think my gnome desktop
> environment is a casualty as well, but at least my home directory still
> exists.
The solution to this is to uninstall the initrd-tools package and to
install yaird and then install the new kernel.
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