Re: Problem with udev upgrading from wheezy to jessie
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:19:26PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> This might be an improvement:
>
> You can force the installation of this version of udev, WHICH WILL NOT
> WORK WITH YOUR PRESENT, RUNNING KERNEL AT THE NEXT REBOOT, by creating
> the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file.
That sounds confusing. I could, on a bad day, read that as needing to
reboot to update udev after creating the /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file.
> "force" and "creating" are still somewhat dissociated from each other.
> The two ideas would be better expressed in two sentences.
>
> Alternatively:
>
> Please upgrade your kernel before or after upgrading udev. This
> version of udev will not work with the kernel you are using at
> present. If you do not upgrade the kernel before rebooting it can
> lead to an unbootable system.
>
> You can force the installation of this version of udev by creating the
> file /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade.
Or ...
You can force the installation of this version of udev by first creating
a /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file, "touch /etc/udev/kernel-upgrade file"
is sufficient, before proceeding with the udev installation.
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