Re: questions for when Etch goes stable
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> Also, I have found the sarge to etch upgrade to be brutal. The
> systems I have tried to upgrade recently are all in shambles. The
> particular problem I've encountered seems to be the Xfree86 -> xorg 7
> transition. It's a real trick to get it to upgrade, especially if there
> are any non-Debian packages on the system, and even after upgrade, I
> haven't got X into a reliable working state.
> -- hendrik
I dist-upgraded from sarge to etch and went thru the same pains. I
boxed with xserver-org for an hour and got all beat up. Finally, i
opted to move to sid, but i did not like it, at least it was working,
something that did not happened with etch, my spanish keyboard did not
work right, eventhough i did countless dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.
At this point i was debating if i should wipe everything and go back to
installing sarge or etch from scratch but reconfiguring my apps is a
PITA.
While googling i found this blog, and went from sid back to etch
without any problems, - i had nothing to lose - so i'm on
etch (the runabout way) and with no problems, my kbd works flawlessly.
Sid -> Etch
http://bertgarcia.com/2006/10/03/giga-meet-etch
greetings,
macondo
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