On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:35:29AM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:09:20AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > A report against upgrade-reports would definitely be useful here, and in > > particular I think we would want a copy of /var/log/apt/term.log covering > > the upgrade attempt in question, to see what packages failed to upgrade and > > why. (The failing packages should be considered RC-buggy, and fixed before > > the release.)
> Arrgh! I don't know what might cause initialization/truncation of term.log, > but the oldest entry in the file is at least a day after the upgrade failed. > The best I can do at this point is rely on my admittedly faulty memory and > say that the wheels came off the upgrade process during installation of the > Gnome packages. The log is rotated periodically - how about /var/log/apt/term.log.1.gz? > > > (Xorg radeon driver "DefaultConnectorTable" option required(?) on > > > Alpha and possibly other non-x86 platforms.) > > Ah, nice... :) That sounds like it should be a separate bug report on the > > radeon package, then? > Would you call it a bug, or simply a configuration "detail" that needs to > be noted during installation on non-x86 platforms? Sounds like a bug to me. :) > Similar issue with "radvd", but I reported *that* one (with a code workaround) > back in December 2007 (bug id# 456205). At least with "radvd", the underlying > issue is use of a character array and later trying to force a particular > structure alignment on it. The workaround was to force 8-byte > (sizeof(size_t)) > alignment on the offending array using "__attribute__ ((aligned(8)))". I've prodded the maintainer about this now, perhaps radvd can still be fixed in time for lenny. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]