Re: hosed etch upgrade

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Hi Graham,

sorry for your troubles.

Graham Seaman wrote:
> Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a
> full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... please
> ignore previous message...
> 
> Graham
> 
> Graham Seaman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for
>> a while and when etch was formally released like an idiot decided I
>> could do the final upgrade without reading the upgrade documents...
>>
>> Result: I rebooted before having upgraded the kernel (I'm on
>> 2.6.8-2-686) and so udev doesn't work and I have no network access

Ooops. No, you *did not* have updates from testing/etch running on your
system for a while. Even oldstable sarge has kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686,
ie. a more recent one than you have/had on your system.

Sarge gives:
uname -a
Linux srv 2.6.8-3-686 #1 Tue Dec 5 21:26:38 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

etch gives:
Linux johannes2 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux

Please take care that your apt/aptitude is configured correctly
(/etc/apt/sources.list)

HTH,

Johannes