Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed
On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 19:50:22 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> My server upgrade from squeeze to wheezy just failed. But I'm not
> panicking, I can still dual-boot into a back-up squeeze partition, and
> squeeze still works perfectly.
>
> I just upgraded my server from squeeze to wheezy. Lots of packages
> failed to upgrade because of dependency problems. Now it's normal to
> have a few like this in a testing system, as packages leak through from
> sid, so I wasn't too worried about this -- normally just wait a few days
> and the missing dependencies show up.
>
> But enough are missing that wheezy is not really usable.
>
> It fails to recognise any network interfaces. It used to recognise an
> eth0, an eth1, and a ppp0, but now ifconfig reports nothing. Of course,
> this might not even be the fault of the missing packages. Maybe udev is
> wrong. Yes, I started the upgrade with the kernel and udev. They should
> match.
>
> I'm not sure where to start looking.
>
> apt-get dist-upgrade just reports a lot of unresolved dependencies. I'm
> not clear what to do next. apt-get suggests using apt-get -f install.
> But which packages do I do this to? Or do I misunderstand?
The idea is that 'apt-get -f install' by itself should sort out missing
dependencies for a package. It will first look in /var/cache/apt/archives
for them and next download from the mirror you are using if they are not
there. The latter looks like a problem for you if there are no network
interfaces :). You pobably should look at this first and see what the
kernel is getting up to. The output of 'dmesg' after booting might help.
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