On Thursday, 12.04.2007 at 18:30 -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: > >> - aptitude update (etch sources) > >> - aptitude upgrade > >> - see lots of warnings > > > > This was your first sign of trouble. And, given that you were not > > fully committed to an upgrade at that point, it would probably have > > been better if you'd stopped there - and reported the > > errors/warnings you saw. > > In retrospect, absolutely! > > > Given that you had trouble after what is a very simple operation, > > something fundamental must be wrong. Perhaps your previous > > downgrade from Sid to Sarge wasn't quite right, even though your > > system appeared to be operating fine. > > Not a chance. This machine had a fresh install of sarge last May > (long after the sid/sarge downgrade) and was up-to-date as of the day > of upgrade. Oh, OK, fair enough: your original post didn't make that clear. You said you "stayed with Sarge", which suggested no reinstall. > > Any subsequent problems may well be as a result of that first problem. > > > > Are you *certain* your /etc/apt/sources.list were correct? > > > > What were the *actual* warnings (where you state "lots of warnings")? > > Too late now to remember it all clearly, unless there's evidence in > the logs. Many of the warnings are captured in the logs if you check > the bug report #418911, I even cat /etc/apt/sources.list at one point > in the capture. I posted 6 mbs of logs in the bug. What I was getting at, really, was that something hugely fundamental must have caused your error at that first stage. There's not enough information to figure out what: it *could* have been bad sources, it *could* have been lack of disk space, it *could* have been ... etc. etc. Without inspecting those first errors it's impossible to say. > My post was more of a warning, 'heads-up, this may not be as easy as > you think.' I hope to save others some aggravation and help the > developers see how a user can flub it. Yeah, I realise that was your purpose ... :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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