Re: Server upgrade to wheezy failed
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 21:52:04 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:53:52 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:05:43 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not necessarily helpful to the OP and more for the record for other
>>>> upgraders:
>>>>
>>>> The wheezy release notes recommend:
>>>> apt-get upgrade apt-get install linux-image-<version>
>>>> apt-get install udev [reboot]
>>>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>>>>
>>>> I'd start by checking what versions of the kernel and udev are
>>>> currently installed and running because the squeeze kernel isn't
>>>> compatible with the wheezy udev.
>>>
>>> Yes. I figured that out. But I've discovered that at the [reboot]
>>> step I managed to misbootd into the squeeze kernel with the wheezy
>>> udev, so your analysis is dead on.
>>>
>>> I had even installed the wheezy kernel (version 3.0.something), but
>>> even so, I find myself unable to boot it, as described in another post
>>> in this thread.
>>>
>>>> Can the NIC(s) be brought up and the network enabled manually?
>>
>> I see. I should try ifconfig for this. Just saying
>>
>> ifconfig
>>
>> shows me no interfaces, but that just means they're down.
>> I should try ifconfig -a, and it should show me the missing ones.
>>
>> And then
>>
>> ifconfig eth0 up ifconfig eth1 up
>
> And indeed, ifconfig eth0 up and ifconfig eth1 up did the trick.
>
> But it didn't solve the package dependency problems.
>
> Being unable to run the 3.x kernel has probably cause some system-level
> packages to remain unconfigured.
>
> Even apt-get -f install didn't help. It fails on the first package it
> tries to install.
Do you have both of wheezy's kernel and udev packages installed are
are you trying to boot the wheezy kernel with the squeeze udev?
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