Re: aptitude full-upgrade bug?
On Sat 27 Jun 2015 at 14:05:17 -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 27/06/15 01:12 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >On Saturday 27 June 2015 17:38:36 Gary Dale wrote:
> >>I've upgraded two machines from wheezy to jessie over the last month or
> >>so and noticed the same behaviour on both. In both cases they failed to
> >>upgrade the kernel. In both cases this left the machines unable to
> >>complete a boot and I had to use the systemV init option to get to a
> >>command line.
> >>
> >>I suspect this could be because the meta-package linux-image-amd64
> >>wasn't installed, but even that doesn't make a lot of sense. Shouldn't
> >>a full-upgrade bring all the packages up to the current version?
> >>
> >>Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> >Did you upgrade to systemd or sysvinit? It sounds like the second.
> >
> >Lisi
> >
> No. The full-upgrade option (equivalent to dist-upgrade in apt-get)
> does a full upgrade. It's the systemd boot that fails. There are, as
> Arno explained, probably something that doesn't work with systemd
> and a 3.2 kernel.
My interpretation is that he didn't say that. The failure to boot with
a Wheezy kernel is perplexing.
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