Re: Upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy fails
rlwbonsai, 6.05.2013:
> I attempted to upgrade my Averatec 3200 laptop from Squeeze to
> Wheezy on 5/5/13. The laptop has an AMD Athlon 486 processor
> and Unichrome graphics. The only non-Debian software
> installed on this machine is Mozilla Firefox. This laptop has
> successfully run Sarge, Etch, Lenny and Squeeze and was
> successfully upgraded to Squeeze following the instructions in
> the Debian.org site. The following problems occurred during the
> upgrade to Wheezy:
>
> -the upgrade stopped twice because of errors, once for libav-?
> and once for libreoffice-?
>
> -I had to issue the command 'apt-get install -f' two separate
> times to get the upgrade completed, in addition to issuing the
> command 'apt-get dist-upgrade' two times in the middle of the
> upgrade.
>
> -Gnome 3 will not run. Default Gnome is very limited in this
> machine.
>
> -xfce runs OK but the default terminal has no prompt. Changing
> to each of the three rxvt versions will crash X when started.
> xterm will work.
>
>
> I upgraded the laptop first to see what would happen. My main
> computer is a desktop machine running Squeeze but also with
> Unichrome graphics and and AMD Athlon 686 processor. I will not
> upgrade this desktop machine if it ends up like the laptop,
> which is barely usable.
FWIW, I am running wheezy on an Averatec 3250 laptop (Athlon XP-M
2200+, with unichrome for graphics). Got it in December 2004.
(I ran sid on this laptop for years, but a few months ago I did a
re-install to encrypt the disk, and since then I've been running wheezy.
Will probably move up to sid again soon, now that wheezy is out.)
I run gnome 3 in fallback mode (classic) and it seems okay, though I
should note that I have 1GB memory, as opposed to the 512MB that it came
with. The amount of memory is probably a big deal for these machines.
The openchrome driver for unichrome does seem to have some issues,
though I haven't verified for sure that the problems below are
openchrome-related.
I didn't notice any stutter while playing videos in totem, like you
mentioned in your other thread, but some flash videos stutter in
iceweasel, using gnash. (If a youtube video stutters too much, I use
clive to download it.)
vlc and totem have colors mixed up though mplayer is fine.
My gnome-panel icons on the right, for battery, sound, wifi, don't
get updated but work okay when I click on them or bring the mouse over
them.
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