Re: Update Debian 9 to 10
On Thu 09 Dec 2021 at 16:39:52 (+0200), Thanos Katsiolis wrote:
> I followed the Release notes
> <https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes.en.pdf> for
> Debian 10, in order to update from Debian 9 to Debian 10. After running
>
> apt-get upgrade
>
> I ran
>
> apt full-upgrade
>
> to complete the update to Debian 10. While the command was running on
> terminal, it switched to black background and displayed
>
> /dev/sda5: clean, xxxxxxx/xxxxxx files, xxxxxxx/xxxxxx blocks
> [ xxxxxx] kvm: disabled by bios
> [ xxxxxx] kvm: disabled by bios
> [ xxxxxx] kvm: disabled by bios
> [ xxxxxx] kvm: disabled by bios
> [ OK ] Started Daily apt upgrade and clean activities.
>
> with a blinking underscore, and the upgrade is interrupted. What is this
> about, and how can I proceed?
That sounds as if you might have been in X while upgrading, and
dropped out into a console that was displaying the original startup
messages (which look very much like my own). See §4.1.5.
If you can't find a shell prompt (eg, try Ctrl-Alt-F2 etc for possible
VCs) so you can carry on, it may be necessary to close down as
gracefully as you are able to, and then login as root to a textual VC
to carry on with the upgrade. APT is pretty clever and picking up
where it left off, though you might benefit from running commands
such as:
# apt-get -f install
# dpkg --configure --pending
if things have got somewhat wedged. (See §4.5.3 and the sections
around there.)
Cheers,
David.
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