Todd Pytel wrote: > Kernel is 2.6.26.4, udev is 164-3. You have hit the udev and kernel incompatibility problem. That kernel isn't supported by the new udev. A *lot* of people have already hit that problem and when Squeeze releases it will only mean that more people will hit it. I think you are lucky that you have a simple partitioning and were able to boot. A lot of people with a different partitioning end up without being able to boot. Here is the official documentation on how to recover: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#how-to-recover > That could certainly be an issue. I suppose there must be some good > technical reason that dep wouldn't be tracked by apt. It's a problem. Look at the package dependencies: $ apt-cache show udev | grep -e Depends: -e Conflicts: It can't depend upon a specific kernel. If it did that would break everyone that uses their own self compiled kernel. There isn't a requirement that everyone use a packaged kernel and there are a lot of good reasons for people to use a custom kernel. Therefore it can't be a dependency. There is a conflict with previous packaged kernels. So for a typical user who is using a packaged kernel it will conflict. That I would call a best-effort attempt only. It works in a lot of typical cases but doesn't work for everyone but better than not having the conflict in there at all. > It's going to be tricky doing a kernel upgrade now, ... First, read the official docs and see what you think. Then I think I would try to downgrade udev in order to get back to a working udev system that matches your current kernel. Then you would have a normal system with everthing working and then could decide what to do then. I haven't had to do this myself however and so don't know but downgrading udev is included as a footnote possibility in the official docs. Bob
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