Filipe Freire wrote: > I am running lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2, on a desktop. Yesterday I did a update > of new packages and many things do not work afterwards. New packages in Lenny? Do you mean security upgrades? http://www.debian.org/security/ > I started with an installation of new packages (as I often do with > new updates). As things were not working well afterwards I run > aptitude dist-upgrade. At the end I lost the network connection. It is not clear. You are upgrading Lenny packages? Such as security upgrades? Most of the time, 99.44% (an exact number that I just made up on the spot) 'apt-get upgrade' works for Debian Stable. But sometimes two cases occur that need 'apt-get dist-upgrade' instead. One is that the maintainer that uploaded the newer package links it with newer libraries and if you haven't previously installed those then the upgrade will need to be an dist-upgrade in order to add a new package to the system. This is almost always inadvertant but most maintainers will not avoid it since doing so would require them to manually build an exact replacement upon ever architecture that Debian supports (because the autobuilders will have the newer dependency). The second time is as a conscious decision. One example is the recent bind9 security upgrade. They moved from one version of libraries to another and called it out as a need in the release note. http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2130 Both of those cases are unpleasant for Stable systems because it requires a higher level of manual interaction. But so it is. But ONLY IN THOSE CASES would a dist-upgrade ever be needed on a stable system. That is one of the safety checks. If you ever need anything more then it is an alert that something is not right and needs further investigation before proceeding. > Lost internet connection, mounting usb, etc. The usb has been fixed by > providing the UUID of the device instead of the name but I still can not get > my network connection to work. > > My packages are now a mixture of lenny and squeeze. I was not aware of the > new squeeze release. Squeeze has NOT been released. Are you intentionally upgrading to the Squeeze release candidate? Why do you now have a mixture of Squeeze and Lenny packages? This isn't normal and can only happen because of something that you changed on your system. Look in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. For a Lenny system (in the US) you should see something similar to this: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main If you don't, if you see squeeze there, then that is the source of your problems. You have then inadvertently mixed your system up. > I locked at possible solutions to get the networking running but > nothing works, including the different squeeze intructions in > /etc/network/interfaces but to no avail. > > Did anyone had a similar problem? Suggestions are very welcome. If you have accidentally mixed your system up between Lenny and Squeeze then because Squeeze is very close to release you would probably be better off to go ahead and perform a full upgrade to Squeeze. Because downgrading would be tedious and error prone and at this very close to release state moving forward would be more advisable. Read this reference: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade And this how-to-recover reference might help you now: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#how-to-recover Bob
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