On 07/02/11 at 01:47am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I'm in the middle of the upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I have a > partially working system. I've been following the instruction ins the > release notes, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ > ch-upgrading.en.html and I've gotten as far as upgrading the kernel and > udev. [...] > And I can't use cntl-alt-F1 to get a text console, because all I get is a > blank black screen. Is gdm taking over the text consoles and disallowing > them? How do I get my text consoles back so I can proceed with the rest > of the upgrade? You can shutdown gdm from inside a GUI, or you can disable gdm and reboot, or disable gdm and telinit 1 && telinit 2. Then do your upgrade, and re-enable gdm. Since you're still in squeeze, disabling gdm is probably update-rc.d -f gdm remove. Stopping gdm is just /etc/init.d/gdm stop. > Or is there some devious trick I'm missing? Will an ssh connection from > another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? SSH will probably survive. Even restarting the sshd process does not typically kill user connections. -- Liam
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